Highlights 2020: framing health stories

Front-line health workers social distancing in Kenya Grace Mwashigadi; Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnant women and their infants in sub-Saharan Africa are not yet fully known; however, disruptions to the delivery of routine antenatal care is likely to have negative health consequences. Breast cancer care in Mexico interrupted by health-care reform Ana S Ferrigno, Alejandra Platas, Beatriz Acevedo-Gattas, Cynthia Villarreal-Garza; Medicos e Investigadores en la Lucha contra el Cancer de Mama, Mexico City, Mexico (ASF, AP, CV-G); Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico (BA-G) In Mexico, breast cancer patients were protected from catastrophic health expenses by Seguro Popular, a health-care system funded through governmental and beneficiary contributions. The last stand: drug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia and beyond Chanaki Amaratunga, Mehul Dhorda, Rupam Tripura, Rob W van der Pluijm, Thomas J Peto, Alexander Kumar, Arjen M Dondorp, Nicholas J White; Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (CA, MD, RT, RWvdP, TJP, AK, AMD, NJW); School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, King's College London, London, UK (AK) The young man pictured under his mosquito net in rural Cambodia was treated successfully for an artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection. [...]while I may be the first woman in this office”, Harris said, “I won't be the last. [...]in her speech she honoured the contributions of “Black women, who are too often overlooked, but so often prove that they are the backbone of our democracy”.