Global Health

Honoré Prentice (in yellow shirt and glasses), who lives in Canada, met three of his birth siblings, who live in the U.S., in person on Dec. 13, 2021. The brothers were all born in Haiti. Family photo/Family photo hide caption

Alok Shukla walks across the Paturiyadand forest of Korba district in India's state of Chhattisgarh. Shukla has led a decade-long grassroots campaign against some of companies seeking to develop coal mines in forested areas. Idrees Mohammed/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

A computer illustration of the multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria — one of the pathogens that has gained power as a result of overuse of antibiotics during the pandemic. -/Science Source hide caption

Girls at a primary school in Sheno, Ethiopia. In partnership with UNICEF, the Sheno Primary School developed a program to educate both girls and boys about menstruation — and provide sanitary pads. A new UNICEF report says that only 39% of the world's schools offer such instruction. Zacharias Abubeker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Mothers participate in a pilot program for one of two new malaria vaccines. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

View of vials on a production line at the factory of British multinational pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, northern France, on December 3, 2020, where the adjuvant for Covid-19 vaccines will be manufactured. Francois Lo Presti/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

A member of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) hold a sign with the word We Want a Vaccine as they march to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) offices in Pretoria, on June 25, 2021. They are demanding that vaccines from Russia and China be supplied to South Africans. - Hundreds of protesters rallied in South Africa's capital Pretoria on June 25, 2021 calling for the country's medicines regulatory body to give the greenlight to China's Sinovac and Russia's Sputnik vaccines, amid a third coronavirus wave. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images) Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption

Photographer Tommy Trenchard (above) and his sister share the ability to pick up almost anything with their toes. Nothing is too remote a possibility for their dexterous foot digits, including a remote control. Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville hide caption

Lead poisoning is now getting more attention — and funds to fight it. Above: At a U.N. conference in Kenya, a booth offers information about testing and treatment. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

This 2005 electron microscope image shows an avian influenza A H5N1 virion. On Wednesday, Michigan health officials said a farmworker has been diagnosed with bird flu, the second human case connected to an outbreak in U.S. dairy cows. Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC/AP hide caption

Paramedic Papinki Lebelo waits for a police escort before responding to an emergency call-out in the Red Zone neighborhood of Philippi East in Cape Town, South Africa. Due to a rise in attacks on paramedics, large parts of the city are only accessible to ambulance crews when they have a police escort. This severely delays response times. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption

Eddie Almance (left) and his sister Leila pose for their cousin Ailem Villarreal on the rooftop of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Odessa, Texas, before heading to prom. Their grandmother says that for seven generations, the family members have forged close bonds. Danielle Villasana for NPR hide caption

A burial team in Liberia awaits decontamination after performing "safe burials" for people who died of Ebola during the 2014-15 outbreak. Strains of the virus are harbored by bats and primates. A new study looks at how human activity affects the transmission of infectious diseases like Ebola. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption