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Landless Workers' Movement farmers gather food to distribute to poor communities.

Brazil’s small farmers tackle food insecurity, hunger amid the pandemic 

Food

In Brazil, hunger, poverty and unemployment have spiked alongside COVID-19. But the Landless Workers’ Movement, a massive organization of small farmers, is doing its best to help tackle the problem.

doctors at Ipojuca

A ‘tsunami of disease’ slams Brazil’s health system

Health
Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra

Brazil’s microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits

Health
Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.

‘We have a child with microcephaly, and we’re happy’

Health
Elaine Marques, 29 (center left) smiles at Germana Soares, 24, at a group birthday party for babies born with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil.

How Brazil’s favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly

Health
A woman and child in costume dance during a street carnival at which health workers distributed kits with information about the Zika virus, on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

As Brazil marks Carnival, women worry about Zika

Health

With no end to the outbreak in sight, Zika has become a part of the five-day celebrations. Mosquito costumes have featured heavily in parades across the country. Health officials handed out paper fans with information about how to avoid the virus. And some pregnant women did what was once unthinkable in a nation known for its celebratory spirit — they stayed home.

Dr. Natalia Brin examines a 2-month-old with suspected microcephaly in Brazil.

A new link between Zika and microcephaly is found in Brazil

Health

Researchers in Brazil are still trying to see if there is a definitive connection between Zika and Microcephaly. There’s new evidence that is pointing them in that direction.

Child neurologist Vanessa Van Der Linden checks X-rays of a baby's skull with microcephaly at the hospital Barao de Lucena in Recife, Brazil, Jan. 26.

Good news: On Brazil’s Zika front lines, cases of microcephaly may be dropping

Health

Pernambuco state registered 194 cases in the first week of November. Last week, it reported just 34.

USA national soccer team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann (C) speaks to his players ahead of their training session in Manaus.

Will the US make a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with Germany?

Sports

The United States national soccer team will take on Germany’s team on Thursday. The US coach used to be the German national coach. Rumors have been swirling about what will happen when the teams and the coaches compete on in Recife.

USA national soccer team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann (C) speaks to his players ahead of their training session in Manaus.

Will the US make a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with Germany?

Sports

The United States national soccer team will take on Germany’s team on Thursday. The US coach used to be the German national coach. Rumors have been swirling about what will happen when the teams and the coaches compete on in Recife.