Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ground-breaking books on India's Dalits and is now a MacArthur 'genius grant' awardee.
This year's Lasker Prize for public service goes to South African researchers Salim and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim. The married couple made a startling discovery about HIV — and did something about it.
Bangladesh defies the stereotypes. It was born in poverty but has risen up the income ladder and is a model of health progress. Will the current political upheaval take a toll on its impressive achievements?
It is the world's largest displacement crisis: 13 million people have fled their homes in war-torn Sudan. In neighboring Chad, both refugees and locals cope with this extraordinary upheaval.
High levels of lead were found in a surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi kids in New York City — and in pregnant women in Bangladesh. Could there be a common cause?
With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious.
In newly released data, lenacapavir, given via a twice-yearly injection, has shown remarkable effectiveness at eliminating HIV transmission during sexual contact. But its cost could be an issue.
Research shows that a toxic mix of past traumas and the stresses of resettlement puts refugee kids at significantly higher risk of long term mental health challenges. A new effort aims to mitigate those risks by supporting parents and children in refugee families.
There's one confirmed case. And likely hundreds more. As experts try to ID the source of the virus in Gaza, a huge vaccine effort has wrapped up stage 1 and gears up for the critical stage 2.
A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing out on social media to protest the ban on singing.
Now that the World Health Organization has endorsed a one-dose vaccine, global health groups are amping up their effort to inoculate the world's girls. How are they doing?
Frustrated when Brazil could not get COVID vaccines, two Brazilian doctors (who have been best friends since college) decided to invent their own version and offer up the patent essentially for free.
Dr. Frank Hoffman was appalled by the sheer numbers of cases of early-stage breast cancer that were being missed. Then he had an idea: What if "we were to specially train others to do it."
After months of disruption in a massive national feeding effort by global groups, there's a scramble to digitally register more than 6 million Ethiopians to make sure food aid goes to those in need.
