Gabriel Toto is a bayakou, or latrine cleaner, in Haiti. Marie Arago for NPR hide caption
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Photo taken Sun., Aug. 28, 2016. A health official inks a child finger to indicate she has been administered with a polio vaccine at a camp of people displaced by Islamist extremist in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Sunday Alamba/AP hide caption
Ugali, a staple starch in many parts of Africa, is filling but lacking in micronutrients. Julia Gunther for NPR hide caption
Students cover their faces with masks to protect themselves from air pollution in Delhi. Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times/Getty Images hide caption
Fleas transmit plague — but the pneumonic plague, the type reported from China this week, can spread from person to person as well. Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images hide caption
Girls carry containers of water filled from the local communal tap Zimbabwe, which is in the grip of a nationwide drought that has been linked to climate change. Cynthia R. Matonhodze/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Fish broker Khout Phany, 39, (under umbrella) sits while fishermen bring their catch to be weighed in Chhnok Tru, a fishing village at the southern tip of the Tonle Sap lake where it meets the river. Michael Sullivan/NPR hide caption
People cover their faces with masks to avoid thick smog in New Delhi on Nov. 5. People living there have complained about respiratory problems. Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times/Getty Images hide caption
Indonesians independently carry out fumigation in their neighborhood to eradicate the larvae of mosquitoes that cause dengue fever. A new vaccine to prevent dengue may be on the horizon. Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto/Getty Images hide caption
Patients line up for remote health consultation sessions on a char near Rangpur, Bangladesh. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption
Malassezia is a genus of fungi naturally found on the skin surfaces of many animals, including humans. The researchers found it in urban apartments, although some strains have been known to cause infections in hospitals. Science Source hide caption
Until recently, the Chinese public has been slow to embrace the #MeToo movement. One social media celebrity hopes to change that. Towfiqu Photography/Getty Images hide caption
Opium poppies in Turkey Mark Nesbitt and Delwen Samuel/Wikimedia hide caption
Fatou "Toufah" Jallow says she was raped by former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh. She now lives in Canada but returned home to testify before the nation's Truth Commission. 2019 Human Rights Watch hide caption
Beauty Queen's Rape Allegation Against Former Gambia President Sparks #MeToo Movement
Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe first encountered Ebola in 1976, before it had been identified. Since then, from his post at the Congo National Institute for Biomedical Research, he has led the global search for a cure. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption
This Congolese Doctor Discovered Ebola But Never Got Credit For It — Until Now
Nesma (left) and Anys are Algerian siblings who came out to each other at a party. They live in Paris, and both identify as queer. "It now makes us stronger and committed together for the queer and Algerian causes," Anys says. Mikael Chukwuma Owunna hide caption
Noah Nasiali-Kadima, foreground, takes a selfie with members of the Africa Farmers Group during a tour of a member's farm in Machakos County, Kenya. Noah Nasiali-Kadima hide caption
Doctors in the 1600s wore birdlike masks like these, which were thought to protect against disease. Which disease? Take the quiz and find out! Manuel Velasco/Getty Images hide caption
Two women sit, with their faces covered, at a drug treatment center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Musadeq Sadeq/AP hide caption
Women And Children Are The Emerging Face Of Drug Addiction In Afghanistan
Children attend school in the Syrian refugee camp Zaatari, in the north of Jordan, about an hour's drive from Amman. Soeren Stache/Picture Alliance/Getty Images hide caption
Displaced Kurdish and Arab women, who fled from violence after a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, sit with their children at a public school used as shelter where they now live in Hasakah, Syria. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters hide caption
A health worker gives the oral polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan. Fareed Khan/AP hide caption
Ghost Viruses And The Taliban Stand In The Way Of Wiping Out Polio
Nabia Drammeh, 27, a nurse, talks with Maram Ceesay, and her granddaughter, Awa at the Brufut Minor Health Center outside of Banjul, the capital of the Gambia. Awa's mother passed away during childbirth leaving Maram to look after her. The 2-year-old is being treated for pneumonia. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption