How many kids go to work instead of school? They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable." Fatma Tanis
The good news (154 million deaths avoided) and bad news about childhood vaccines A new study points out success stories — and potential obstacles — to bringing vaccines to the world's children. Gabrielle Emanuel
This abortion method doesn't involve doctors — and many of them consider it safe A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors changing their views. Abby Wendle
Photos: How torn pictures and trusted herbs create healing in Colombia Conflict has sewn trauma in the western region of Colombia. Doctors Without Borders is working with local healers and health care professionals to come up with ways to help heal the psychic wounds. Diane Cole
The story of an HIV-positive orphan and a pastor's quest to help after U.S. aid cuts AIDS orphans and vulnerable children are without support since the U.S. cut foreign assistance. A pastor has been frantically trying to find meds for an HIV-positive orphan who can no longer get them. Gabrielle Emanuel
HIV prevention drug hailed as a 'breakthrough' gets FDA approval A drug called lenacapavir, administered in two injections a year, offers protection from HIV comparable to daily pills. One looming question: Will it be affordable for lower resource countries? Jonathan Lambert
How Trump's travel ban could disrupt the way knowledge about health is shared Global health specialists talk about the consequences of the full or partial ban on travel to the U.S. from 19 countries. Jonathan Lambert
The Taliban has banned a lot of things ... but chess? A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned? Diaa Hadid
People told my dad not to bother educating his 4 daughters. He didn't listen On Father's Day, Esther Ngumbi thinks of the sacrifices her Kenyan dad made to ensure that not only his son but his four daughters got an education. He'd say, "I choose to educate you, my girls." Esther Ndumi Ngumbi
A promising new HIV vaccine was set to start trials. Then came Trump's latest cuts On May 30, a team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health got the word: Funding for their vaccine development program will end next year. Jonathan Lambert
