Aug 17 Delivery of Global AIDS Funding Drops 10 Percent HIV testing in Haiti. Photo by UNICEF. There's been a slowdown in HIV/AIDS donations from rich countries to developing nations, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS. An analysis released this week found… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch 5 Months After Meltdown, Fukushima Citizens Still Face Radioactive Risks Five months after the deadly tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, Japanese authorities have acknowledged that they misled residents about the radioactive dangers. John Sparks of Independent Television News gets an inside look at the area and reports on… Continue watching
Aug 16 Study: Smoking, Bladder Cancer Link Higher in Women than Previously Thought Photo by Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Cigarettes may be the smoking gun behind half of the bladder cancer cases for women in the United States, scientists from National Cancer Institute announced Tuesday. Published in the Journal of the… Continue reading
Aug 16 Thwarting Polio in the Land of Bricks and Bangles An army of vaccination teams working in high-risk areas of India are helping fight the crippling polio virus. Continue reading
Aug 15 Donations for East Africa Famine Victims Falling Short By Talea Miller A malnourished refugee child in Dadaab, Kenya. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images. Scenes of emaciated children and weary families crowded into refugee camps have been playing on televisions around the world for weeks now. But the famine hitting the Horn… Continue reading
Aug 12 Global Health Week in Tweets By Talea Miller 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 "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify… Continue reading
Aug 12 Americans Can’t Be Forced to Buy Insurance, 11th Circuit Rules Challenges to the legality of the health reform bill signed into law by President Obama last year are moving closer to the Supreme Court. White House Flickr photo by Chuck Kennedy The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta… Continue reading
Aug 12 In Senegal, a Movement to Reject Female Circumcision By Fred de Sam Lazaro Watch the full episode. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. This segment originally aired on PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The practice of "female circumcision" is… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch Top Health Reform Player Berwick’s Overhaul Vision Draws Praise, Rebuke As a leading player in the implementation of President Obama's health reform law, Donald Berwick has come under fire for his vision of fundamental changes to the U.S. health care system. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the controversy… Continue watching
Aug 11 Berwick Recess Appointment Part of a ‘Fundamentally Broken’ System Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Dr. Donald M. Berwick. It's a name as likely to incite a political brawl in Washington as it is to attract a blank stare almost anywhere else. But if most Americans haven't… Continue reading