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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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,...
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...
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,...