Jul 21 Watch Soaring Food Costs Hit Indonesian Families’ Budgets The price of rice has risen 25 percent in less than a year in Indonesia, and more families have stunted or malnourished children as a results of soaring costs. Continue watching
Jul 20 Wanted: New Birth Control Choices for Men By Talea Miller Condoms or a vasectomy? Those are the choices for sexually active men who want to control their own fertility -- at least for now. These two options are currently the only available contraceptive methods for men, and both have well-documented… Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Indonesian Plant Shows Promise for Male Birth Control A plant that reduces fertility, long used by Indonesian men, is being tested as a possible daily male birth control pill. Continue watching
Jul 19 Slide Show: Indonesia’s Rise Not Lifting Everyone By Cat Wise Tuesday on the NewsHour, Ray Suarez reports on Indonesia's growing economy and its potential as a model for new democracies emerging from the Arab Spring. Watch that report online exclusively right now in our sneak peek, and for more… Continue reading
Jul 19 Indonesia Rising: A Country’s Evolution By Talea Miller Indonesia has 240 million people living on 6,000 islands, belonging to hundreds of ethnic groups. The evolving democracy continues to grow its economy. Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Indonesia on the Rise: Is It a Model for New Democracies? Indonesia is an evolving, prospering democracy, but the country continues to struggle with corruption and economic inequality. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Jul 18 Tsunami-Devastated Aceh an Epicenter of Mental Health Woes By Cat Wise Monday on the NewsHour, Ray Suarez reports on the lack of mental health services in Indonesia. Learn more about the problem in the Aceh region of Indonesia in the post below. Survivors mourn the dead after a large tsunami hit… Continue reading
Jul 14 Sneak Peek: Indonesia Series Explores Rising Power’s Major Health Challenges By Talea Miller Updated with all the series reports on July 19. While Indonesia boasts the world's fourth-largest population, the biggest Muslim population, 6,000 islands and a top 20 economy, many Americans know very little of the Southeast Asian nation --… Continue reading
Jul 13 Studies: HIV Meds Can Help Prevent New Infections By Talea Miller Patients wait at an HIV clinic in Mozambique. HIV-negative men and women who took a daily pill usually used to treat the disease reduced their risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 60 percent, two new studies show. Continue reading
Jul 11 Record Drought Threatens Millions in Eastern Africa By Betty Ann Bowser More than 10 million people are desperately in need of food assistance in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, the World Food Program estimated this week, as the worst drought in 60 years continues to ravage eastern Africa. The situation in Somalia… Continue reading