Health Nov 23 Preview: Sustaining Mozambique’s HIV/AIDS Fight One out of every eight adults living in Mozambique is HIV positive, and most of them are on HIV medications called antiretrovirals. These pills are life-saving for people around the world infected with HIV, but the United States and other…
Health Nov 18 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Cholera Crossing Borders, Organ Traffickers Targeting Slums A Ministry of Health body-collection team picks up cholera victims in Haiti. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Cholera Spreads to DR, Miami Cases of cholera have been confirmed in two people in the Dominican Republic and in Miami. Both…
Health Nov 11 Global Health Watch: Cholera in Haiti, TB Numbers Leveling Off We are starting a new feature on the Rundown from our global health unit. Once a week, we'll be publishing a roundup of important health stories around the world you should know about. Here are our top five from…
Health Nov 09 Cholera Reaches Port-au-Prince, More Cases Expected Cholera has officially spread to Port-au-Prince, where more than a million people are living in crowded tent camps and slums, prime conditions for spreading the highly contagious disease. Testing confirmed a 3-year-old boy living in one of those tent…
Health Nov 04 Storm Threatens to Worsen Haiti Cholera Outbreak A strengthening tropical storm is predicted to hit Haiti on Friday, bringing the threat of high winds and flooding, which could accelerate the spread of cholera.
Health Oct 27 Cholera Outbreak Highlights Haiti’s Ongoing Sanitation Problems Deaths from Haiti's cholera outbreak are slowing, but health experts warn that the threat of further spread, fueled by chronically unsanitary conditions, is still very real. At least 284 Haitians have died of the highly-contagious waterborne illness in the past…
Arts Oct 18 Food Insecurity a Chronic Problem in Mozambique MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE | Maputo's streets were buzzing with commercial activity Monday and its beaches packed over the weekend with families having picnics and friends sharing beers. But just last month, there was a very different scene here: riots over…
Health Oct 11 CDC, NIH Condemn ‘Deeply Saddening’ Guatemala Study The recent discovery that U.S. researchers intentionally infected Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s spurred angry responses and an apology from President Obama to Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom. Now the directors of the CDC and the National Institutes of…
Science Oct 06 Toxic Sludge From Hungary Spill Coats Villages, Threatens Danube A red-tinged toxic sludge has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week - the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks in Ajka. The images have been both striking and shocking…
Arts Sep 21 Mongolia’s Nomads Face Changing Culture As more young Mongolians abandon the traditional nomadic lifestyle of their families, older generations worry the culture of Mongolian nomads could be threatened.