Apr 01 Life as an HIV Elite Controller By Talea Miller 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… Continue reading
Apr 01 States Mount Challenges to Health Reform Law By Lea Winerman Even as President Obama talks up the new health care reform law at rallies and speeches around the country, opponents of the measure are continuing to work to invalidate it. State legislators in 38 states have introduced legislation opposing… Continue reading
Apr 01 HIV: A Killer… Under Control? By Ray Suarez Maybe you're old enough to remember when people first began dying of a disease that caused a catastrophic breakdown in the body's ability to fight disease. Young people were being killed off by infections the body normally kept in check… Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch Health Care Reform Challenges Continue from Many States With 14 state governments suing over health care reform, Judy Woodruff gets opposing views about the constitutionality of the new federal law. Continue watching
Apr 01 Watch In Peru, ‘Elite’ AIDS Patients Boost Vaccine Research Efforts In the final report in his series about health issues in Peru, Ray Suarez reports on the country's war on AIDS through research on rare patients whose bodies can effectively suppress the virus. Continue watching
Mar 31 How Do Other Countries Afford Universal Health Care? Question: I have heard repeatedly that every major economy, besides the U.S., has universal health care. I have also heard that the Medicare program, which obviously doesn’t cover everyone, is headed for bankruptcy. How do these other countries afford to… Continue reading
Mar 31 Haiti Recovery Effort Boosted by Billions in Pledges at U.N. Conference By Larisa Epatko Representatives of 130 countries met Wednesday in New York to pledge support and funding for Haiti's vast rebuilding effort following its devastating January earthquake. Continue reading
Mar 31 Loans Provide Opportunity for TB Patients in Peru By Talea Miller 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… Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch Peru Eyes Innovations in Rural Maternity Health As part of his continuing series on Peru, Ray Suarez reports on how government strategies to reduce deaths from childbirth among indigenous women who live far from health services could also help women in other Latin American countries. Continue watching
Mar 30 Politico: Obama’s Post-Reform Poll Bump Appears Fleeting By Hari Sreenivasan Now that President Obama has shepherded historic health care reform legislation into law, will that translate into a higher approval rating? Politico reporter Josh Gerstein spoke with us about what the health care victory may or may not do for… Continue reading