Global Health

Baby "NeoNatalie" waits to be saved, as Dr. Mark Hathaway gives NPR's Malaka Gharib a lesson on getting an infant to take its first breath. Akash Ghai/NPR hide caption

Becoming a father made Dr. Namala Mkopi appreciate why parents worry so much. He's been a leading advocate for childhood vaccines in his native Tanzania. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption

A elderly patient with chronic debilitating back pain receives a bottle of liquid morphine during a home visit from a representative of Hospice Africa Uganda. Morgana Wingard/African Palliative Care Association hide caption

Mustafa Alnour Alhassan, 26, lost his leg to a flesh-eating fungal disease called mycetoma. Here, he sits beside his father, Alnour Alhassan, at the Mycetoma Research Center in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Neil Brandvold hide caption

The giant roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, shows its three serrated lips. Eye of Science/Science Source hide caption

Dr. Ian Crozier survived Ebola, only to have his normally blue left eye turn green because of inflammation. Though the rest of his body was Ebola-free, his eye was teeming with the virus. Emory Eye Center hide caption

The Ebola virus can linger in the semen of male survivors for up to nine months. iStockphoto hide caption

Tatenda Yemeke spent the summer working on mental health issues in Cape Town: "I lived with a Muslim family and they helped me learn about local culture." Courtesy of Tatenda Yemeke hide caption