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  1. People walking past a Western Union remittance office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Miguel Medina/Getty Images
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    An Overlooked Way to Close Africa’s Health Gaps

    Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli & Ekhosuehi Iyahen explain how current remittances could be better used to strengthen coverage and care for millions.
  2. Two women walk in Beijing on Jan 4, 2026, amid China’s declining population a decade after the one-child policy ended. Adek Berry/Getty Images
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    The End of China’s One-Child Policy, Ten Years Later

    Yi Fuxian shows how high-level officials were able to obscure the failure of family-planning rules.
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  4. An employee works in a laboratory at the SK Bioscience R&D Center in Seongnam, South Korea, developing the SKYCovione COVID-19 vaccine. Seong-JoonCho/Bloomberg/Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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    Ensuring Pandemic Financing for Middle-Income Countries

    Masyita Crystallin & Rachel Glennerster call on multilateral development banks to commit now to providing at-risk funding for bets on vaccines.
  5. COVAX vaccines being shipped. Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image
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    A Model to Keep Multilateralism Alive

    José Manuel Barroso reflects on what has made Gavi so successful, even as other international organizations have become paralyzed.
  6. Health worker gives a vaccine in Uganda. Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua via Getty Images
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    Global Health Workers Strengthen US National Security

    Junaid Nabi urges the American government not to abandon the people at the heart of the pandemic-surveillance system.
  7. Joe Stone using psilocybin mushrooms at home in Westminster, Colorado to treat his cluster headaches, August 22, 2023. He typically takes it as tea or capsules and follows a low-dose, low-intensity activity routine. Hyoung Chang/Getty Images
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    The Best Treatment for the Most Painful Medical Condition Is Illegal

    Peter Singer urges governments to allow doctors to prescribe psychedelic drugs for people with cluster headaches.
  8. A medical worker takes care of a newborn at Dongfang Hospital in Lianyungang, China. Nur Photo/Getty Images
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    Will China Forcibly Boost Fertility?

    Yi Fuxian thinks the positive effects of incentives will be temporary, while more coercive measures are unlikely.
  9. Interior of Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza showing severe destruction after Israeli forces withdrew; debris, damaged walls, and broken medical equipment fill the upper floors, with light filtering through shattered openings. Anadolu/Getty Images
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    The Right Way to Rebuild Gaza’s Health System

    Turnwait Michael & Erin McCandless think emergency assistance should be designed and implemented in ways that strengthen local institutions.

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