Global Health

Must Reads

• Zimbabwe

  How Zimbabwe’s Health System Profits From the Dead

  A shortage of pathologists and a culture of corruption have made mortuaries sites of extortion and grief.

  By Linda Mujuru
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  Democratic Republic of Congo

  Closed Clinics, Empty Shelves: Patients Struggle as War Unravels Lubero’s Health Care System

  By Merveille Kavira Luneghe
• Uganda

  Could Uganda’s Budongo Forest Be Ground Zero for the Next Global Pandemic?

  Tobacco farming in Uganda has resulted in the loss of trees key to the diets of chimpanzees and baboons, increasing human-primate interactions — and the risk for disease spillover.

  By Nakisanze Segawa