Apr 19 Viewers Donate Over $8,000 to Aid Baby Deliveries in Developing World By Cat Wise A Liberian midwife learns how to maintain and clean a newly installed solar suitcase. PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels recently reported on the Berkeley, Calif., nonprofit We Care Solar, which developed a "solar suitcase" to provide lights and… Continue reading
Apr 10 Why Churches Could Be Crucial in the Fight Against HIV in Africa A child prays in a Jericho church in the north of Swaziland. Photos by Alex Gallafent/The World. In the history of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, there has long been a divide between public health advocates and… Continue reading
Apr 04 Saving Lives With Solar Power EmbedVideo(3083, 482, 304); What's as easy as lighting up a room -- say a hospital delivery room? You'd be surprised. In much of Africa and other poor areas, electricity is scarce and unreliable. Hospitals and clinics in… Continue reading
Apr 04 Solar Suitcase: Saving Lives with Solar Power By Dave Gustafson Dr. Laura Stachel and her husband founded We Care Solar to help bring light to the estimated 300,000 hospitals and clinics in the developing world that don't have reliable sources of electricity. Our slideshow highlights Stachel's work toward equipping remote… Continue reading
Mar 23 Doctor’s World Bank Nomination Signals Renewed Development Focus President Obama, right, introduces Jim Yong Kim as the nominee to become World Bank president at the White House on Friday. Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Obama announced the nomination of Dr. Jim Yong Kim,… Continue reading
Mar 07 Anonciata’s Story: Seeking Healing After Congo’s Brutal Civil War By Fred de Sam Lazaro Photo of Anonciata by Fred de Sam Lazaro for the PBS NewsHour. Few nations are more endowed with mineral resources than the Democratic Republic of Congo and none has endured a more staggering human cost in the scramble for… Continue reading
Feb 20 A Look at the World’s ‘Forgotten’ Diseases Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discuss some of the often neglected diseases worldwide and why we should be paying attention… Continue reading
Feb 16 Chronic Malnutrition a ‘Hidden Crisis’ By Larisa Epatko About 2 million children who are malnourished die each year worldwide, according to a United Nations estimate. Yet aid organizations say it's tough to attract attention to the issue of chronic malnutrition in a preventative way -- before it becomes… Continue reading
Jan 30 Experts Weigh in on Bird Flu Research Pigeons are seen eating on a street in Hong Kong on January 6, 2012. Photo by Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images. Earlier this month, the scientists who altered the H5N1 virus to create a more contagious strain that's transmissible between ferrets,… Continue reading
Jan 13 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 "Global Health Week in Tweets " on Storify]… Continue reading