Jan 12 On Second Anniversary of Earthquake, Cholera Continues to Cripple Haiti By Cat Wise With more than 7,000 dead and half a million people sickened, a U.N. health agency is calling the cholera outbreak in Haiti "one of the largest epidemics of the disease in modern history to affect a single country."… Continue reading
Jan 11 Two Years Later, Haitian Amputees Still Have a Long Way to Go Fymée Diogene and Balnave Ulysee both lost legs in the 2010 earthquake. Photo by William Daniels/Handicap International. Two years ago, a devastating earthquake in Haiti killed more than 200,000 people and caused injuries that required amputations for another 4,000… Continue reading
Jan 09 Global Health Week in Tweets There was a lot of news in the world of health and development last week. Check out the NewsHour global health unit's highlights from the Twitterverse. [View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]… Continue reading
Dec 23 Unlikely Education Leader Links Business and Schools in Morocco Former President Clinton and Moroccan education advocate Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi at the Clinton Global initiative. Photo courtesy Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi. Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi is one of those people with a knack for getting what he wants, at times without even… Continue reading
Dec 21 Slide Show: An Imam with an HIV Prevention Mission On Wednesday's NewsHour, the global health unit reports on how Morocco is training imams to educate people in their communities about the HIV virus. One such imam, Mohamed Ziani, speaks about HIV prevention during prayer at his… Continue reading
Dec 21 An Imam with an HIV Prevention Mission By Talea Miller Imam Mohamed Ziani talks about HIV prevention at his mosque and teaches other imams how to do the same in their communities. Continue reading
Dec 21 Reporter’s Notebook: Morocco Battles HIV, Stigma Through Mosques Ray Suarez with Imam Mohamed Ziani, who helps train other imams to talk about HIV in their communities. The first report in the NewsHour's Morocco series airs on Wednesday night's broadcast. Watch a video preview of the stories. Continue reading
Dec 20 Slide Show: Scenes From Morocco By Talea Miller The NewsHour's Morocco series starts Wednesday with a report on government reforms brought on by the Arab Spring unrest. Learn more about this fascinating country, its culture and challenges in the slide show above. You can also read a… Continue reading
Dec 20 Scenes From Morocco: A Nation in Flux By Talea Miller Morocco is a conservative, mostly Muslim country whose king has taken on voluntary political reforms in the wake of the Arab Spring. Continue reading
Dec 19 Morocco Avoids Arab Spring Violence, but Progress Is Mixed on Reforms Ray Suarez in front of the Parliament of Morocco in Rabat, the location of mass protests earlier this year. The NewsHour's Morocco series begins Tuesday, watch a preview on our global health site. In 2009, a Moroccan newsmagazine… Continue reading