Global Health

Must Reads

• Mexico

  The Fight for Weight-Sensitive Health Care in Mexico

  Discrimination and misdiagnoses are common for overweight patients in the country, which has the world’s second-highest obesity rate. The results can be life-threatening.

  By Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez
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  Democratic Republic of Congo

  Serious Consequences as Private Medical Labs Skirt Regulations in DRC

  By Françoise Mbuyi Mutombo
• Zambia

  Cholera Patients Struggle To Get to Zambia’s Hospitals

  People use anything they can to get the medical care they need, but some die trying.

  By Prudence Phiri