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With new efforts to eradicate the virus worldwide, and millions in US and foreign funding every year, some say the end of HIV/AIDS is near.

But those same efforts are having the opposite effect in Uganda, where poor planning, lack of donor accountability and chronic budget gaps are leaving thousands of patients without treatment and US and Ugandan policymakers washing their hands of responsibility.

In 2017, the Horn of Africa was in the grip of a severe drought. With several seasons of unusually low rain, crops began to fail and food insecurity grew.

I traveled to Northern Kenya to document the devastation of climate change and the lifesaving work of Oxfam, one of the only organizations providing direct relief in the remote region.

Since its only external beam radiotherapy machine broke in April, Ugandans having been dying of treatable cancers.

Driven out of their homes and displaced in foreign land, many South Sudanese refugees are struggling to reconcile with the complexity of war and dislocation. For some, that means blaming opposing tribes for the conflict. Still others refuse to cast blame on rival ethnic groups, believing that peace beyond those divisions remains possible in South Sudan.