Stephanie Nolen
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Epidemics That Weren’t: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks
Some of the most fragile health systems in the world can teach us ways to respond to public health threats early and effectively.
Key Partner in Covax Will End Support for Middle-Income Nations
Many of the poorest countries will continue to get free Covid shots, but global demand for them has plummeted, driving a shift away from the...
Global Partners May End Broad Covid Vaccination Effort in Developing Countries
The board of Gavi, the international vaccine agency, meets Wednesday to debate shutting down the program, known as Covax, amid swiftly waning demand for the...
Bringing Sexy Back — To Fight H.I.V.
Most safer sex campaigns focus on danger and disease. Acknowledging the importance of pleasure — and how to make safe sex good sex — could...
Cholera Outbreaks Surge Worldwide, Following Floods, Droughts and Wars
A record number of outbreaks has drained the cholera vaccine supply, leading the W.H.O. to ration emergency vaccinations.
A New Shot Guards Against H.I.V., but Access for Africans Is Uncertain
An injection every two months rather than a daily pill could shield many more women from the virus, but it is unavailable in places that...
Monkeypox Shots, Treatments and Tests Are Unavailable in Much of the World
High-income countries snapped up vaccines when the disease hit them, leaving none for countries that have battled the virus for years, in an echo of...
Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us
His forthcoming book, “The Song of the Cell,” part of what he says will be a quartet, is “fundamentally about understanding the units that organize...
Fentanyl From the Government? A Vancouver Experiment Aims to Stop Overdoses
A city on the forefront of harm reduction has taken the concept to a new level in an effort to address the growing toxicity of...
When Abortion Pills Were Banned in Brazil, Women Turned to Drug Traffickers
With Roe v. Wade overturned, states banning abortion are looking to prevent the distribution of abortion medication. Brazil shows the possible consequences.
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