Professional digital illustration, clean and symbolic style for an academic medical newsletter. The concept is split into two halves. On the left side: a low-resource rural African clinic or hospital room, slightly dim, with a dusty landscape visible through a window, one outdated anesthesia machine, a single overworked healthcare worker, muted tan and grey color palette, conveying challenge and scarcity. On the right side: a modern, well-equipped African hospital labor ward, bright and clean, with a diverse team of happy male and female anesthetists and nurses using a portable ultrasound machine on a pregnant patient, monitoring equipment visible, hopeful blue and white color palette, conveying progress and safety. Centered perfectly over the divide is a translucent, stylized map of Africa. A glowing line connects a heart icon over the rural area to a star icon over the urban area, symbolizing 'pathways to bridging disparities'. The overall mood is hopeful and determined. See more