Malaria parasites, spread by a mosquito's bite, have started to adapt so the go-to drugs won't knock them out. Daniel Heuclin/Nature Picture Li/Getty Images/Nature Picture Libr hide caption
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MoniCa Singh is an acid attack survivor — and a fashion designer and activist. She's pictured at New York fashion week on September 15, 2016. Chance Yeh/Getty Images hide caption
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Workers sort batteries in an e-waste recycling factory in Jingmen, Hubei province, China. Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
The World Health Organization's finalists for the next director-general (from left): Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Sania Nishtar and David Nabarro Fabrice Coffrini and Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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A worker stands in a construction project in a favela, or shantytown, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The government has helped drive down income inequality by investing in basic services like health care, education and pensions. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
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Khaleed Khateeb, 21, was the videographer for the Netflix documentary The White Helmets. "This photo was after double tap of aircraft on July 27, 2014," he says, referring to an airstrike followed by another attack. "I don't know how I survived." Fadi al Halabi/Courtesy of Khaleed Khateeb hide caption
This image depicts a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC hide caption
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A mobile clinic outside Mombassa, Kenya, provides women in rural areas with family planning options like contraceptive implants and offers cervical cancer screening as well. Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images hide caption
Trump Bans U.S. Funding For Groups That 'Promote' Abortion Overseas
The Roca brothers, three Spanish chefs, are U.N. goodwill ambassadors and creator of a very special chocolate. Courtesy of El Celler de Can Roca/SDGF hide caption
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Health workers treat a man at a hospital in Idlib, Syria, about 40 miles from Aleppo. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
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How Do You Know If Aid Really Works? Turns Out ... We Often Don't
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Actor Aamir Khan plays former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat, training his on-screen daughters in the art of wrestling, in the film Dangal. Aamir Khan Productions hide caption
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A nurse in India looks at x-ray results to see if the patient has tuberculosis. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP hide caption
Duncan Green, author of "How Change Happens." He says of activism: "There has to be a little part of you that acknowledges doubt, ambiguity and uncertainty. You have to have room to change direction." Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption