From left: Sekou Sheriff, of Barkedu village in Liberia, whose parents died at an Ebola treatment center; a polio vaccination booth in Pakistan; a schoolgirl in Ethiopia examines underwear with a pocket for a menstrual pad; an image from a video on the ethics of selfies; Consolata Agunga goes door-to-door as a community health worker in her village in Kenya. From left: John Poole/NPR; Jason Beaubien/NPR; Courtesy of Be Girl Inc.; SAIH Norway/Screenshot by NPR; Marc Silver/NPR hide caption
On a trip to India, Abraar Karan (second from right) interviews a local woman to talk about the challenges of cataracts. Daniel Carvalho hide caption
Patients line up for remote health consultation sessions on a remote island near Rangpur, Bangladesh. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption
Justine Adhiambo Obura, chairwoman of the No Sex For Fish cooperative in Nduru Beach, Kenya, stands by her fishing boat. Patrick Higdon, whose name is on the boat, works for the charity World Connect, which gave the group a grant to provide boats for some of the local women. Julia Gunther for NPR hide caption
Gulalai Ismail, the Pakistani activist who fled the country after being threatened for taking a stand against sexual violence perpetrated by security forces. She was photographed in Brooklyn, where she is now seeking asylum. Tim McDonnell/NPR hide caption
Women of the Treatment Action Campaign and are affected by the HIV virus campaign for the use of Dolutegravir (DTG) at the International Aids Conference at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre. Gareth Fuller/PA Images/Getty Images hide caption
A horn player (left) in this detail from a 1694 altar carving by Francesco Antonio d'Alberto in Piedmont, Italy, clearly has a swollen neck that signifies goiter, medical historians say. The thyroid condition was a sign of poverty in those days. Renzo Dionigi hide caption
A family sells pastries in Mexico City. As Mexicans' wages have risen, their average daily intake of calories has soared. Meghan Dhaliwal/for NPR hide caption
Photo highlights from our top stories: Inuit parenting teaches kids how to control anger; a fisherman holds up a fish caught in Lake Malawi, where transactional sex is part of the fish trade; the Dandora Landfill in Nairobi, Kenya. Johan Hallberg-Campbell for NPR; Julia Gunther; Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto hide caption
Patients are treated for dengue fever at a hospital in Nicaragua, one of the countries where the virus is surging this year. Alfredo Zuniga/AP hide caption
A menstrual shed sits among trees in the village of Narsi in western Nepal. Poulomi Basu/VII hide caption
Garment workers in Indonesia are eligible for generous severance if they're laid off — although that law could be changing. Muhammad Fadli/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Pakistan's four Integrity Icon honorees and one stand-in: from left to right, Imran Zia, Rohana Kakar, Umar Tufail's cousin Mohammad Saleh (Tufail couldn't attend as he was stuck in the field working), Rizwan Alam Sherwani and Zahid Ali Khan Khattak. Accountability Lab hide caption
Lual Mayen, CEO of Junub Games, says that before he taught himself how to code at a refugee camp, "I never thought video games were made by people. I thought they just fall from heaven." Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
Homes destroyed by Cyclone Idai litter the riverbanks of Buzi district, Mozambique. Weather forecasters there say they do not have all the resources they need to cope with more extreme weather affecting the country as a result of climate change. Nichole Sobecki/VII for NPR hide caption