Jatmin carries a freshly-speared octopus back to his boat. James Morgan hide caption
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The wreckage of ambulances outside a makeshift hospital used by rebel fighters in Aleppo. George Ourfalian /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Barkatullah smiles and rests on a crutch and grips his walker during a physical therapy session at Emergency War and Trauma Hospital in Kabul. The 13-year-old lost his right arm and leg in an explosion. He practices standing on the walker 30 seconds at a time. Ivan Armando Flores for NPR hide caption
Didier Kassai uses comics to "transmit a message." His father opposed to a career in art until Kassai began earning money for his drawings. Here he sits in his office in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. Cassandra Vinograd for NPR hide caption
A man sifts through piles of discarded TVs and other electronic waste in a dump site in Nigeria. Kristian Buus/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Consolata Aganga goes door-to-door as a community health worker, a demanding volunteer job. "It is God who gives me the strength," she says. She is also a small-scale farmer, growing vegetables for her family. Marc Silver/NPR hide caption
A child is tested for HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa. A single injection of antibodies that target HIV is being developed and analyzed. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images hide caption
A mosquito's antenna responds to odors. Scientists are trying to figure out how the malaria parasite might trigger a change in body odor that draws in mosquitoes that carry the disease, like the Anopheles skeeter pictured above. BSIP/UIG/Getty Images hide caption
South African comic Loyiso Madinga in Newtown, Johannesburg. Nyamekela Nhlabatsi hide caption
Men walk near the site where the body of an 8-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered, was found. Channi Anand/AP hide caption
A U.N. convoy carrying aid enters Douma, a besieged town in eastern Ghouta, Syria in March. Mouneb Taim /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
Winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship (from left) are Jennifer Pahlka, Harish Hande, Jess Ladd, Lesley Marincola, Anushka Ratnayake and Barbara Pierce Bush. David Fisher/Skoll Foundation hide caption
Yellow Fever Encroaches Megacities, Straining Global Vaccine Supply
Extreme lack of attention is not unusual in hospitals in poor countries, says Martin Onyango, legal advisor for the Center for Reproductive Rights based in Nairobi. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters hide caption
A medical worker gives a toddler oxygen through a respirator following an alleged poison gas attack in eastern Ghouta, Syria on April 8. Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP hide caption
Samuel Senessie, 25, at the site of last year's mudslide. He lost five members of his family and his home. He says he has not received the government support to which he should be entitled. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
Photomicrograph of human hookworm rhabditiform larva in its early noninfectious stage, 1979. Image courtesy CDC. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images hide caption
See that little brown critter and that little white critter? They're goats stuck on a bridge in western Pennsylvania. The white goat is facing in the wrong direction to walk off the beam, about 100 feet high, and return to solid ground. Todd Tilson/PA Turnpike Commission hide caption
Yemeni women carry blankets and lanterns distributed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Sanaa, Yemen. Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Piglets suckling on a farm in Guangdong province in southeast China, where the virus struck. xPacifica /Getty Images hide caption
