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File Photo: Patients, some HIV-positive, and their relatives protest for the lack of medicines and medical supplies in hospitals, in front of the Health Ministry in Caracas on April 18, 2018.Luis Robayo | AFP | Getty ImagesMore than 70 countries warned they are at risk of running out of HIV medication due to the coronavirus…

Commuters wearing protective masks wait for a train at the Luz station in Sao Paulo. As the country shatters records and the contamination curve fails to flatten, President Jair Bolsonaro remains adamant about his crusade to reopen commerce and the economy.Pacific PressLockdowns imposed across the world in an attempt to combat the coronavirus pandemic differed…

Global healthAid agencies are scrambling to get oxygen equipment to low-income countries where the coronavirus is rapidly spreading.A delivery of oxygen tanks to the coronavirus ward of Hospital General San Felipe in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, earlier this month.Credit...Orlando Sierra/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJune 23, 2020Updated 6:00 p.m. ETAs the coronavirus pandemic hits more impoverished countries with…

Of the world's poorest states, the Democratic Republic of the Congo spends the least per citizen on health care — $19 per person annually. And in Sierra Leone, the highest health spender south of the Sahara, it's over triple — $66 per capita. That's still just a fraction of how much the world's wealthiest countries…

Moscow (CNN)Frontline medical workers in the US, the UK and elsewhere may face major risks in their efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic, but they've also seen an outpouring of public appreciat…