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Here's a look at NPR's Global Health and Development coverage.

A new study offers good news from Uganda — although the cuts in U.S. aid cast a shadow over the reduction in deaths of parents from HIV/AIDS.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will meet Denmark's foreign minister and his Greenlandic counterpart in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Arctic island, at the center of a geopolitical storm.

China's trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, the government said Wednesday, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald Trump's onslaught of higher tariffs.

Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger. But she has been largely forgotten in civil rights history.

Bishop Robert Hirschfeld pointed to instances throughout history when clergy members put their lives at risk to protect the vulnerable. He said a similar response could be warranted today.

The Senate Judiciary Committee started confirmation hearings on Tuesday for Christina Nolan and Michael Drescher, two veteran federal prosecutors whom Gov. Phil Scott appointed to the state’s highest court.

Tina Packer, who in 1978, founded Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., died over the weekend.

Law enforcement are prepared to enforce longstanding laws on automobile safety — including broken windshields and bald tires — even as inspections are going away.

Connecticut’s 211 emergency assistance hotline is being inundated with calls. The state recently allocated an additional $2.6 million to increase call response.