The recent New Yorker documentary “Rovina’s Choice” opens with scenes of hot blowing sand and drone footage of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya, home to about 300,000 people. Many of the residents here have fled the civil war in South Sudan, only to encounter a new challenge: the erosion of international aid that residents rely on to survive.

Rovina Naboi, the mother of nine at the center of the film, recounts a harrowing experience traveling 12 kilometers to the nearest clinic to treat her youngest, Jane Sunday. Malnutrition had wracked the child’s body, causing her to develop a terrible illness that eventually killed her. Ravina had to abruptly leave the understaffed clinic to find food for her other children. But as the film’s narrator and executive producer, Atul Gawande, exp

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