Health Aug 03 Haiti Braces for Storm, Cholera Surge Cholera patient in Haiti. Photo by American Red Cross. A tropical storm bearing down on Haiti threatens to make daily life more miserable for tens of thousands homeless still living in tent camps and could deepen the cholera epidemic that…
Health Jul 29 Global Health Week in Tweets Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. [View the story "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify]…
Health Jul 29 A Year Later, Funding Still Needed for Pakistan Flood Victims A woman prays by the Ravi river in August 2010, after the worst flooding in 80 years. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images. This week marks one year since historic flooding submerged a fifth of Pakistan and displaced more than 4…
Health Jul 27 Hepatitis Risk Spikes for Drug Users More than 2 billion people around the world are infected with hepatitis, a staggering figure that equals nearly one-third of the globe's population. Injection drug users are particularly vulnerable to the disease and new data out in the…
Health Jul 26 A Day in the Life of Japan’s ‘Nuclear Gypsies’ More than 2,500 contract workers, lured by the promise of guaranteed work during an economic downturn, brave dangerously high radiation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.
Health Jul 25 Escaping the Epicenter of Eastern Africa’s Famine More than 11 million people are in need of aid due to the worst drought to hit Eastern Africa in 60 years. Kenya and Ethiopia are struggling to absorb refugees from hardest-hit Somalia who are desperate for any food and…
Health Jul 22 Texting to Track Malaria Supplies Mobile phones are pervasive in the developing world, and now a new wave of mobile technology is dramatically changing the way health care workers provide services to rural communities in these regions.
Health Jul 20 Wanted: New Birth Control Choices for Men Condoms or a vasectomy? Those are the choices for sexually active men who want to control their own fertility -- at least for now. These two options are currently the only available contraceptive methods for men, and both have well-documented…
Health Jul 19 Indonesia Rising: A Country’s Evolution Indonesia has 240 million people living on 6,000 islands, belonging to hundreds of ethnic groups. The evolving democracy continues to grow its economy.
Health Jul 14 Sneak Peek: Indonesia Series Explores Rising Power’s Major Health Challenges Updated with all the series reports on July 19. While Indonesia boasts the world's fourth-largest population, the biggest Muslim population, 6,000 islands and a top 20 economy, many Americans know very little of the Southeast Asian nation --…