Life in Bwondha, Uganda, revolves around the contaminated waters of Lake Victoria. In Bwondha, the prevalence of schistosomiasis, spread by parasites that inhabit contaminated water, is 80 percent. Image by Samuel Loewenberg. Uganda, 2014.

A health worker gives malaria medicine to a healthy child. This treatment is part of a chemoprevention campaign recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Image by Amy Maxmen. Mali, 2013.

A child receives the polio vaccine. Image by Esha Chhabra. India, 2013.

Over the past 20 years, global initiatives from organizations like UNAIDS have helped to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS in many parts of the world, yet the death toll continues to rise. Many of the victims are not only casualties of the disease, but also of stigma, discrimination, and indifference.

Over the past 15 years, contraception use in Ethiopia has more than tripled, according to Ethiopia’s Demographic and Health Survey, in no small part thanks to endorsement by the country's imams and priests. 

“Journalists are observers. You’re observers and then the tellers of what you’ve seen,” said Meghan Dhaliwal, multimedia projects coordinator at the Pulitzer Center.