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A Woman’s Right to Birth

A Woman’s Right to Birth

by Cathy Huang: Salud Alarcon, 15 years old with brunette ringlets framing her grinning face, has written her favorite saying onto the first page of every fresh...

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Letter from…Brazil

by Alexis Cruzzavala: The pungent scent of cinnamon lingered on my clothing for days after I left the dense forest of northeastern Brazil’s National Park, Chapada...

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The Next Generation

The Next Generation

by David Carel: It was barely 8:00 in the morning on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. I stood in line with a group of other Yale and Harvard students for President Obama’s...

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Mining for Tuberculosis

Mining for Tuberculosis

by Ashley Wu: A chest X-ray hangs in Mr.  Mkoko’s door. The cavity in the upper left corner confirms what his constantcoughing already indicated: He has contracted...

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Milking the Tsetse for All its Worth

Milking the Tsetse for All its Worth

by Sophie Broach: A soft buzzing filled the air in Yale’s tsetse fly insectary, as Brian Weiss heated a pool of cow blood on a metal tray. The warm, humid room...

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Letter from… Orissa

Letter from… Orissa

by Anisha Suterwala: Uma, one of the nurses, hip checked me as she left the operating theater. Housed on the second floor of Kalinga Eye Hospital and Research Center,...

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A Village Scarred

A Village Scarred

by Jessica Shor: Wang Zhidi sat on the dirt terrace outside his mountaintop home in Ta’erdi, gazing over the river that cuts through the verdant valley below....

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Calling for Health

Calling for Health

by Angelica Calabrese: In a bright, whitewashed nurse’s office overlooking Port-au-Prince, a cell phone trills loudly, and a nurse promptly answers.  Marie-Claire,...

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An Education

An Education

by Seth Kolker: The glistening latex of the condom stretched thinner and thinner up Alfredo Ocampos’ arm until it turned white around his thick knuckles. The condom...

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Illustrating the Revolution

by Erin Biel: From amidst the tear gas, a man emerges on the television screen, brandishing a weapon. Sitting atop another’s shoulders and yelling in defiant Arabic,...

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