India’s chronic shortage of health workers is one of the biggest barriers to improving access to quality health services. The problem is particularly acute in rural areas, where more than 70 percent of Indians still live.  In Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s largest...

On January 24, on the heels of the first ever Surgeon General Report on addiction, 

The mantra “civic space” is continuing to garner immense popularity on the African continent, especially within human rights communities, as the fundamental rights of citizens are seriously under threat. Citizens’ groups are fighting back to recover and expand...

This move fits into the general political trajectory of Hungary. Since his re-election as Prime Minister in 2014, Viktor Orbán has turned his back on the West and pursued a decidedly 

On May 7, 2017, centrist Emmanuel Macron was elected as the next president of France and sworn in on May 14 as the youngest French president since Napoléon Bonaparte. Macron beat far-right Marine Le Pen 

Many factors contributed to the virus’s rapid spread—including extreme poverty, underfunded and undersupplied healthcare systems, local burial customs, and the virus' astonishing leap from the deep forests to the big coastal cities. But no less profound, it was...

On March 20, the five presidential candidates who nationally polled above 10% gathered for their first presidential debate, marking the official start of the French presidential campaign. The three-hour long, substantive debate on the future direction of France was...

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We can draw upon twenty years of experience with cyber...

On March 15, 2017, Dutch voters flocked to the polls in high numbers (82% turnout) to elect their new House members and thereby electing their future government. The outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s center-right party won the most votes, while populist Geert Wilders’...

The WikiLeaks revelation this week that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has the ability to spy on people by hacking their Internet-connected devices should not have been a surprise. Nor, frankly, should it be a surprise that the commercial technology we all use is...

By Vladimer Papava

Georgia today stands at crossroads between two alternatives: to continue rapprochement with the European Union (EU) on a basis of the Association Agreement (and to ultimately pursue membership through a lengthy, drawn-out process), or to join the...

In 2005, the Nigerian Ministry of Health grew increasingly skeptical of the WHO estimated tuberculosis (TB)...