Global Health

North Korean medical workers wore protective suits at Pyongyang's Sunan International Airport this week. Wong Maye-E/AP hide caption

A nurse uses a diagram of the female reproductive system to explain the do-it-yourself careHPV test at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. Will Boase/PATH hide caption

Researchers download images after a drone flight in Sabah, Malaysia. Courtesy of Trends in Parasitology, Fornace et al hide caption

A team from Dr. Paul Farmer's Partners In Health nonprofit visited southeast Liberia's Martha Tubman Memorial Hospital in September. The hospital has a new, six-bed isolation unit financed by the U.N. Rebecca Rollins/courtesy of Partners in Health hide caption

Dr. Joseph Fair, an American virologist, has worked in Sierra Leone for more than a decade. Michael Duff/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption

Secondary students learn about Ebola during an assembly in Abuja. Nigeria's schools have reopened after being closed to prevent the spread of the disease. AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Tonio Borg of Malta, the European Union's Health Commissioner, is spearheading the EU response to the Ebola outbreak. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Boys show off their four-legged friends at a rabies vaccination drive set up by the Serengeti Health Initiative in the Bariadi District of Tanzania. Anna Czupryna/Courtesy of Serengeti Health Initiative hide caption

Abortions are legal in India. But many are performed by traditional midwives, called dais. Sometimes a dai rubs herbs on a woman's stomach or gives her plants to eat. Poulomi Basu for NPR hide caption

Bill Clinton presented the million-dollar Hult Prize to a team of business school graduates from India. Mark Von Holden/AP hide caption