Residents spend as much as 20% of their income on water, yet what comes from their taps is green, dirty and undrinkable. Now, ...

Historically, the US Agency for International Development has pumped at least US$4 billion annually into children’s ...

Unscrupulous agencies peddle work to rural job-seekers, then disappear. This leaves migrants without protections — and, in ...

Nine of 10 people needing transplants never find a donor. Updated laws increase the donor pool by allowing transplants from ...

Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to ...

WAKISO DISTRICT, UGANDA — Uganda’s Supreme Court ruled in January that prosecuting civilians in military courts is unconstitutional. When that happened, Ann was ecstatic. Her brother was approaching ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Batsirai Mutara started selling cheese and dairy products from a makeshift roadside stand when he was 27. It was a far cry from his former office job, where inflation devoured his ...

DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Barnali Das waits outside her doctor’s office with her 4-month-old baby. Dr. Md. Shirajul Islam Sumon treated Das for tuberculosis when she was pregnant. Now, she wants to know why ...

Argentina’s informal recycling network, once a lifeline for thousands, is unraveling as falling prices and new policies make waste-picking unsustainable. LA MATANZA, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — Under a ...