Health

Pumping Iron in Kabul

Images of Afghanistan's bodybuilders as they compete for the ultimate prize.

BY KAYVAN FARZANEH | APRIL 22, 2010

The Top Chef for India's Real Housewives

The man behind India's proposed new 24-hour food channel isn't quite the Westernized culinary rebel some might think. 

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | MARCH 29, 2010

The Accidental Domestic President

For Barack Obama, the world will have to wait.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 23, 2010

The Many Wives of Jacob Zuma

Why the South African president's polygamy is about more than womanizing.

BY MIRIAM KOKTVEDGAARD ZEITZEN | MARCH 12, 2010

Case Raises Questions About U.N.'s Role in Zimbabwe

A former U.N. official claims his warnings of a coming calamity were stifled by a U.N. bureaucracy intent on keeping good relations with Zimbabwe's dictator, Robert Mugabe.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The FP Quiz

Are you a globalization junkie? Then test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works.

MARCH/APRIL 2010

How to Fix Haiti’s Fixers

Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Luckily, there’s a solution.

BY PAUL COLLIER | FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Gandhi's Hookworms

The spread of neglected tropical diseases haven't just created a health crisis in the developing world -- they have spurred conflicts in some of the most unstable places on the planet.

BY PETER J. HOTEZ | JANUARY 21, 2010

The Great Flu Cover-up

How governments concealed the extent of the H1N1 pandemic and risking the outbreak of a virus that's even more deadly.

BY ALAN I. SIPRESS | NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Uganda's Outrageous New Sex Law

A Ugandan Parliamentarian wants to outlaw homosexuality and prescribe the death penalty for having sex while HIV positive. The worse news is, he might actually get what he wants.

BY MICHAEL WILKERSON | OCTOBER 28, 2009

What a Pest

Why the Black Death still won't die.

BY EMILY ANTHES | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009

Plague: A New Thriller of the Coming Pandemic

The best-selling author of Outbreak has an exclusive tale for FP about a catastrophe of global proportions. And by the way, it's not fiction.

BY ROBIN COOK | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009

Let Them Eat Plumpy'Nut

Does the food aid that goes to humanitarian crisis sites hurt more than it nourishes? And is the answer a peanut-flavored paste?

BY JIM MOTAVALLI | OCTOBER 8, 2009

How to Save Lives by Breaking All the Rules

How former U.S. Global AIDS coordinator Mark Dybul ditched the bureaucracy, stopped intergovernmental turf wars, pushed for results, and helped create an anti-poverty machine that actually works.

BY MARK DYBUL | SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The Least Among Us

The recession may be ending for Wall Street, but for the millions of migrants who make the U.S. economy run, the crisis is just beginning.

BY MANUEL OROZCO | SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

What the Doctor Orders

The United States and Russia face strikingly similar health-care challenges -- providing a rare opportunity to strengthen their bilateral relationship.

BY WILLIAM H. FRIST | SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Real Life Death Panels

As Sarah Palin continues to spread misinformation about Barack Obama's health-care plan, FP looks at where the real “death panels” are.

BY ADITI NANGIA, MICHAEL WILKERSON | SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

No Exit?

Despite a valiant start, impoverished, oil-rich Chad has succumbed to the resource curse. But it's not too late to escape.

BY LOUISE ARBOUR | SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Brazil's Public Option

What Obama can learn from Lula about universal health care.

BY EDUARDO J. GÓMEZ | SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Resource Cursed

Equatorial Guinea is perhaps the world's most striking example of why oil hurts, rather than helps, many of the countries that have it. Will the Obama administration stop the country's dictator from sucking its people dry?

BY TUTU ALICANTE, LISA MISOL | AUGUST 26, 2009

The Final Expense

Burying a family member might also bury you.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

A Prescription for Safety

Buying drugs online may not be as dangerous as you think.

BY ROGER BATE | AUGUST 19, 2009

Think Again: A Marshall Plan for Africa

America brought Europe back to life a half-century ago. Why not give Africa the same chance?

BY GLENN HUBBARD | AUGUST 13, 2009

Think Again: Africa's Crisis

As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Africa, the continent is in far better shape than most experts think.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 31, 2009

Our Reply to Obama

Now that the U.S. president has offered Africa his advice, here's our riposte for him.

BY O. NATTY B. DAVIS | JULY 16, 2009

Text for the Cure

BY PATRICK FITZGERALD | OCTOBER 15, 2008

Bulging Bottom Lines

JUNE 16, 2008

How to Stop a Serial Killer

Every day, malaria kills 7,000 children. For $3 each, we could stop these needless deaths.

BY JEFFREY D. SACHS | APRIL 18, 2007

A Shot of Prevention

An AIDS vaccine is possible -- if we stop dragging our feet.

BY SETH BERKLEY | APRIL 18, 2007