Syrian refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp on the Jordanian border on 31 May 2017. NurPhoto/Getty Images hide caption
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After the 2010 earthquake, NGOs dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage at the end of the Port-au-Prince city landfill, which borders the sea and is not lined with an impermeable material. Marie Arago for NPR hide caption
You Probably Don't Want To Know About Haiti's Sewage Problems
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Development Ventures International was the first investor in Mera Gao Power, which has designed a solar-powered microgrid to provide electricity to off-grid villages in India. Anna da Costa/Courtesy of USAID hide caption
President Trump holds an executive order in January imposing the "Mexico City policy," which bans federal funds going to overseas organizations that perform or "promote" abortions. A fundraising effort initiated by a Dutch government minister has raised $300 million for affected organizations. Ron Sachs/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
An HIV-positive mother in Thailand plays with her son, who did not contract the virus in utero. Thailand has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to the World Health Organization. Sakchai Lalit/AP hide caption
Thursday
This photograph, taken on July 26, 2017, shows the room where a Pakistani teenage girl was raped as an act of revenge ordered by the tribal council in Muzaffarabad, a suburb of the city of Multan. SS Mirza/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Careem, a ride-sharing app popular in Pakistan, tried a new twist: putting a matchmaker inside your car. Shelby Knowles/NPR hide caption
Wednesday
The Royal restaurant serves cheese arepas in Washington, D.C. As Venezuelans flee their troubled country, they bring with them a taste for the popular cornmeal cakes. Joy Asico/Courtesy of The Royal hide caption
A worker fogs a neighborhood on the outskirts of Colombo in Sri Lanka in an effort to ward off mosquitoes. The country is facing an outbreak of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Pat Wilkins didn't plan to live in Ghana. But the former New Yorker is now so much a part of the society that, as one Ghanaian puts it, "We don't even see her as an American. She is family to us." Amy Yee for NPR hide caption
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The microneedle patches developed at Georgia Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Drug Delivery each contain an array of needles less than a millimeter long. Courtesy of Georgia Institute of Technology hide caption
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Jenipher Sanni at the Girl Up Summit in Washington, D.C. Shuyao Chen/NPR hide caption
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A Ugandan baboon sits in a farmer's jackfruit tree. Megan Kearns/Courtesy of Innovations for Poverty Action hide caption