Youth

Open defecation has huge public health and economic consequences in India. How can toilets in schools help solve this problem?

Health experts are worried about "downstream" HIV infections—when the virus spreads to people not typically at risk of HIV, like children who acquire the virus through mother-to-child transmission.

Childhood obesity is on the rise in Brazil. But thousands of school gardens around the country are trying to change children's eating habits by helping to build a connection to fresh food.

Studies show that more young people than ever before are sexually active, but without proper sexual reproductive health information and access to contraception, they are left in the dark.

A 2009 law requires Brazilian cities to buy at least 30 percent of ingredients for meals in public schools from family farmers. The law has helped poor farmers and improved the quality of meals.

Brazil’s school feeding program is considered one of the best in the world. Journalist Rhitu Chatterjee was prepared to be impressed, but she didn't expect such high quality and care.

Soda or fresh fruit? Brazil's school feeding program began as a way to reduce hunger and malnutrition. But today, the program helps tackle obesity by encouraging children to "eat healthy."

Brazil is a global agricultural powerhouse, exporting products like coffee, cane sugar, orange juice and beef. But 70 percent of what Brazilians eat is grown by small family farmers.

When the outbreak hit West Africa, fevers spiked—and so did rates of teenage pregnancy.

Yana Paskova juxtaposes family photos taken in Bulgaria before the fall of the Berlin Wall with pictures she recently shot in Cuba, revealing the visual and sociopolitical connections between the two.

The bureaucracy in Cuba can be maddening, but the people are wonderful and have much in common with Americans, says Graham Sowa, 29, an Arizona native who has studied in Havana since 2010.

The university targeted by al-Shabab last year has reopened. Will Kenya's softer, gentler approach to counterterrorism keep it safe?