Dec 05 Watch After String of Disasters, Aid Organizations Struggle to Meet Demands Private aid organizations are struggling to maintain their funding levels for relief efforts in the wake of multiple crises around the world. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the trend as part of the Under-Told Stories project. Continue watching
Dec 05 Surge of Young Nurses Could Help Reverse Shortage Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images. Breathe a little easier, baby boomers. The nursing shortage that looked like it might deepen just in time for your retirement may not be so certain after all. According to a report published… Continue reading
Dec 04 The Gray Area of Gay Refugees A gay Ugandan couple fled to a Kenyan refugee camp after being disowned by their families and threatened by their community. Continue reading
Dec 02 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. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Roundup" on Storify]… Continue reading
Dec 02 Study: Few Healthy Food Choices At Calif. Children's Hospitals Photo by Flickr user TheFoodJunk. Fried food, a cookie, ice cream and soda. It's a dieter's nightmare. It's also what many children's hospitals in California are offering their patients, staff and visitors. Researchers with the UCLA School of… Continue reading
Dec 02 Unemployment Falls To 8.6 Percent Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images. Editor's note, 11:22 am EST: all figures have been checked and confirmed against the now-available BLS data. It seems we aren't the only ones hanging on every number from the Bureau of Labor Statistics… Continue reading
Dec 01 Watch When Will We See an AIDS-Free Generation? On World AIDS Day, President Obama pledged Thursday to provide HIV treatment for millions more around the world. Jeffrey Brown discusses the state of the epidemic with U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby, clinic director Dr. Patricia Nkansah-Asamoah and… Continue watching
Dec 01 Watch Obama Pledges More Support for HIV Treatment President Obama marked World AIDS Day Thursday by pledging a stepped-up effort to reach more victims of the pandemic that began 30 years ago and has since infected an estimated 66 million people worldwide. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Dec 01 For HIV Advocates, 'Unprecedented' Moment Collides with Fiscal Worries Demonstrators rally at the United Nations' High Level Meeting on HIV & AIDS last summer, calling for full funding of worldwide treatment and prevention programming. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images. The view from the curb looks pretty good to… Continue reading
Dec 01 An Illustrated History of AIDS Dr. Edward Atwater, 85, poses with some of the more than 6,000 posters in his collection. Photo courtesy of the University of Rochester. The colorful posters have graced walls and subways in London, New York, and Paris. But… Continue reading