10 years after American and British forces toppled Saddam Hussein and helped initiate a decade of intense violence, life expectancy at birth in Iraq is 59 years—at least 12 years …

The incongruities and subtleties are sometimes startling, but then, they typically are when the worlds of religion and medicine intersect and there’s no reason to expect that Indonesia, the world’s …

It is late evening and the lineup in the waiting room of the Iyet Maternity Centre in Bandung, Indonesia, begins to swell with pregnant women. Iyet Ratnasih, owner of the …

When Irsan Nasution, a bus driver in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta, fell off a roof and severely injured his back and wrists two years ago, he knew he was …

Arif Hidayat still feels a measure of guilt. As a vendor of cigarettes on an impoverished back street in the Indonesian city of Bogor, Hidayat says he realized most of …

Analysts have warned that Indonesia will not meet its Millennium Development Goal for maternal health. Can the country prove them wrong?