Health Dec 23 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Vatican Clarifies on Condoms, Cholera Vaccine Vatican Clarifies Condom Statement The Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement Tuesday reaffirming that the church does not condone the use of condoms to prevent pregnancy, in an effort to clarify controversial statements made…
Health Dec 17 Preview: The NewsHour in Cuba The NewsHour is airing a three part series on Cuba next week, beginning on December 20. Ray Suarez and the global health team traveled to the island nation earlier this month to report on signs of possible economic change, the…
Health Dec 16 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Stem Cell Treatment for HIV, Haiti Cholera HIV Patient 'Cured' A patient with HIV and leukemia has been declared cured of both diseases through stem cell treatment, a team of Berlin doctors wrote this week in a peer-reviewed study in the journal Blood. The results suggest…
Health Dec 13 Cuba Faces Economic Woes; Boasts Strides in Health, Education Ray Suarez is back from Havana, Cuba, where he reported on the health system, medical diplomacy and the move towards economic reforms. Watch an online-exclusive on the struggles of everyday life in Cuba and Suarez's experience as an American reporter…
Health Dec 09 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: One Cigarette Causes Harm, Haiti Cholera Photo by Valentin Ottone Just One Cigarette Can Harm Health The chemicals from even one puff of a cigarette can cause immediate damage to the lungs and DNA, according to a new report issued by U.S. Surgeon General Regina…
Health Dec 06 New Meningitis Vaccine Could be Model for Future Drugs The rollout of a new meningitis vaccine developed specifically with poor countries in mind began Monday in western Africa. Health officials hope to vaccinate more than 12 million people in Burkina Faso by the end of the year and…
Health Dec 02 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: World AIDS Day, Doctors Needed in Haiti The White House decorated for World AIDS Day. Photo by M.V. Jantzen. World AIDS Day On December 1, the 23rd annual World AIDS Day, UNAIDS celebrated the global reduction of new HIV infections over the past decade, while the…
Health Dec 01 Former Surgeon General Koop Calls AIDS ‘Forgotten Epidemic’ Former Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop spoke with Ray Suarez for World AIDS Day.
Health Nov 25 Art Program Aims to Help Children Affected by AIDS One in every eight adults in Mozambique is infected with HIV, and many children in the country have lost a parent, or both parents, to the disease. An art program started by Save the Children in one rural village is…
Health Nov 23 Preventing Mother to Child HIV Transmission in Mozambique More than 400,000 babies born to HIV-positive mothers are infected with the virus each year. Risk of transmission can be reduced to less than 2 percent through prevention programs, raising hope that this type of transmission can be nearly eliminated…