Health Apr 01 Life as an HIV Elite Controller Washington, D.C., resident Bob Hoff has been HIV positive for more than 25 years, but has no detectable viral load and has never had to take medication. Over the years he has seen many friends die of AIDS, but his…
Health Mar 31 Loans Provide Opportunity for TB Patients in Peru During Oscar Ccencho Huamani's three-year battle with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, he was forced to quit his job because he was too weak to work. Like so many other recovered TB patients living in Peru, he needed an income desperately to…
Health Mar 25 Peru Weighs Low Cost Options to Tackle Deadly Cervical Cancer Cervical cancer is one of the main causes of death for women in Peru, where screening for the disease is sporadic. Now, health workers are considering low-tech and low-cost options that could make a difference in poor rural areas.
Health Mar 18 Preview: Peru Profits From Resources, Geography Ray Suarez recently traveled to Peru for a series of reports that will examine the country's health issues as well its economy -- including its evolution from a widely erratic marketplace with a devalued currency to a more…
World Mar 10 Haiti’s Government: What Should Its Next Moves Be? As Haitian President Rene Preval met with President Barack Obama Wednesday to discuss the aftermath of January's devastating earthquake, the PBS NewsHour asked three experts how Haiti's government should proceed with the massive task of recovery.
Economy Mar 08 Ray Suarez: Peru Making Gains Despite Global Economic Crisis Just back from a reporting trip to Peru, Ray Suarez sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to share his observations of the South American country, which is experiencing economic growth despite the global recession. He previews his upcoming series on Peru’s…
Health Feb 26 Lima Women Find Opportunity in Knitting Circle LIMA, PERU -- Each afternoon, in the Santa Rosa slum built into the steep hillside surrounding Lima, a group of 15 women meet to knit. Surrounded by spools of alpaca yarn, they take up their needles and piece together scarves…
Health Feb 17 Economic Cost of Haiti Quake Could Hit $14 Billion Recovery from the January earthquake that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left even more homeless could cost up to $14 billion, according to Latin America's main development bank. The Inter-American Development Bank's…
Health Feb 10 Olympic Athletes, Fans Offered H1N1 Vaccination by Host B.C. British Columbia is offering an interesting gift to athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Vancouver-- a free H1N1 shot. The campaign is part of Canada's attempt to prevent another wave of the flu virus and keep participants and…
Health Feb 04 Journal Retracts Study Backing Vaccine-Autism Link This week, the British medical journal the Lancet formally retracted a 1998 study that helped set off the debate over the safety of vaccines and whether they may be connected to later diagnoses of autism in children.