Panaji, Goa: ‘They Haven’t Called Me Back’
At the Panjim Market in Goa, some local vendors seem unconcerned about COVID-19's second wave across India.
Nagpur, Maharashtra: ‘We Are Carrying A Massive Guilt’
A 26-year-old resident doctor finds herself struggling to assist with the surging number of people sick and dying from COVID-19 at Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu: ‘What Has to Happen Will Happen’
In Asha Mutha's multigenerational household, the paranoia unleashed by India's first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has been replaced by fatalism of the second wave. “What has to happen will happen,” Mutha says, with a…
Gasping For Breath: Women Provide A Glimpse Into India’s COVID Disaster
As with all disasters, the coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing inequalities across gender, caste, religion and class. Here are some glimpses of what it is like to live through it as an Indian woman.
How Will the COVID Shot Affect Your Period? Scientists Say There’s Not Enough Data—But There Should Be
Health experts say the fact that people in vaccine trials were not asked about their periods speaks to the larger way the health concerns of women and other birthing people are often ignored and dismissed…
‘Water Warriors’: The US Women Banding Together to Fight for Water Justice
Women have been deeply embedded in the movement for clean water and sanitation for decades, which has become even more pressing amid the pandemic.
Around the World, Conflicting COVID-19 Vaccination Advice Puts Pregnant People At Risk
Pregnant people are at higher risk of severe COVID-19—but as they were excluded from major clinical vaccine trials, health authorities around the world cannot agree on whether they should be given the vaccine.
‘It Felt So Freeing’: Why Young Women Are Dropping the Pill
As the pill’s 60th anniversary approaches outside of the U.S., young women and people with wombs are increasingly interrogating the lack of information doctors provide about side effects when prescribing the pill and calling for…
‘Men’s Violence Will Outlive The Coronavirus’ — Push To End Global Spike In Abuse Against Women Amid the Pandemic
With half of the world’s population living under lockdown, millions of women around the world were trapped with an abusive partner.
‘We know it’s the work of quack doctors’: Pandemic fans the flames of backstreet abortions in Kenya
Anecdotal reports suggest teenage pregnancies are soaring in Kenya, resulting in unsafe late-term terminations and abandoned babies.
COVID-19 has stopped everything except cancer — the cells are still growing
Globally, millions of women have missed breast cancer screening appointments because of paused services during the height of the pandemic in March and April. This means thousands of cancer cases could lie undetected.
Women Were Key to Eradicating Wild Polio in Africa. But Can They Do the Same for COVID?
How do governments and the wider medical community successfully immunise the entire world against COVID-19? The answer might just lie with women, who played an enormous role in eradicating wild polio across Africa.
Isolated in Rural Nigeria—and Waiting for America to Vote
KAUGAMA, Nigeria—Saki Samuno hissed at the darkening skies. The women around her wore the same irritated look as they pointed upwards, anticipating a torrential downpour. After months without access to family planning services, 28-year-old Samuno…
Coronavirus child care pinch in U.S. poses threat to economic gains of working women
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Most days, Zora Pannell works from her dining room table, sitting in front of her computer, turning off the video on Zoom calls to nurse her one-year-old daughter, Savannah. Pannell has balanced…
Inmates Witnessed a Suicide Attempt. They Received Coloring Pages Instead of Counseling
CHINO, Calif. — On a morning in mid-May, Anna “C.J.” Rugg, a 38-year-old transgender man who had tested positive for the coronavirus at the California Institution for Women, set his room in the medical isolation…
The Brutality of Brazil’s Pandemic Call Centers
Call centers are a mainstay of the Brazilian economy—and a growing menace to its workers.
The Pathologist: She Confronts the Virus From Inside Nursing Homes
“I said: ‘We are from Baghdad. We know how to handle difficult situations.’” Lubab al-Quraishi, a pathology assistant in New Jersey A few days a week, Lubab al-Quraishi, 47, wakes up before sunrise and drives…
This Nurse is Leading the Fight for Safer Hospitals
“As a nurse, there are just times when it’s very intuitive. You just sense that something catastrophic is going to happen.” Bonnie Castillo, the executive director of National Nurses United In early January, before most…