Dec 16 Preview: Is Morocco’s ‘Evolution Not Revolution’ Working? When a series of revolts known as the Arab Spring swept through northern Africa this year, taking down government after government, Morocco was not immune to the unrest. Protesters filled the streets for weeks in February and March… Continue reading
Dec 13 Mysterious Kidney Disease Killing Central American Men By Talea Miller In Central America's sugarcane fields, more and more workers are falling ill with a disease that shuts down their kidneys. Researchers are struggling to find the cause. Continue reading
Dec 09 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 Round Up " on Storify]… Continue reading
Dec 09 Night Satellite Images Give Clues to Measles Outbreaks A 3D plot shows the nighttime brightness of areas of Niger over the course of a year. Image courtesy Science/AAAS. The intensity of light shining from cities at night could help identify hot spots where outbreaks of infectious disease… Continue reading
Dec 08 Aid Groups: Children in North Korea at Risk for Starvation this Winter Malnourished children line the floor of a pediatric ward of Rinsan County Hospital in flood-affected North Hwanghae province in North Korea. Photo courtesy visiting U.S. NGOs. North Korea is approaching another severe food crisis, according to international relief groups… 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 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 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
Nov 30 Q&A: Money Woes Force Global Fund to Refocus on Essential Programs HIV testing. Photo by UNICEF. It's been a difficult year for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest funding mechanism for programs providing prevention and treatment for the diseases around the world. Several big… Continue reading