From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. military conducted 67 nuclear weapon tests in the northern part of the Marshall Islands. Of these, 23 were conducted in the Bikini Atoll and 44 in or near the Enewetak Atoll. Prior to the tests, people living on these islands moved to other islands to avoid nuclear exposure. For […]
Three Takeaways from the Latest Request to the Global Fund’s Board for Aid to Venezuela
Venezuela’s upper-middle-income country status has impeded its access to global health assistance even as its once world-renowned health system has fallen to pieces. In May 2018, however, the Global Fund, a multilateral donor focused on ending AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis as epidemics, introduced a new approach to non-high-income countries ineligible for aid but in […]