Sep 11 The Fixable Crisis of Traffic Fatalities The following is a part of the Roads Kill Project of the Pulitzer Center. This Saturday on NewsHour Weekend, we look at recent changes to drunken-driving laws in British Columbia that have led to a roughly 50… Continue reading
May 10 In South Africa, Using Mobile Technology to Improve Maternal Health Access MAMA users in South Africa receive daily text messages filled with tips and reminders about the health of their babies. Photo by Imani M. Cheers/IRP. Memory Banda is busy. Her 10-month old son is teething and taking his first… Continue reading
May 09 Watch In Senegal, a Campaign of Education and Dialogue on a Painful Rite of Passage In Senegal, a Campaign of Education and Dialogue on a Painful Rite of Passage… Continue watching
May 08 Preventing Drug Shortages With Cell Phones in Malawi Eighty percent of the 13 million Malawians live in rural areas, making delivering health services challenging, especially in remote parts with no roads. Photo courtesy of JSI/cStock. BALAKA, Malawi -- Saidi Masemba's clinic is a small, two-room mud hut… Continue reading
May 07 Best and Worst Countries for Babies on Their First Day of Life One million babies die each year on the day they are born, according to a new study released by the international nonprofit Save the Children. In their annual "State of the World's Mothers" report, the organization… Continue reading
Apr 26 Maternal Health Hotline Helps Malawians Stay Connected By Imani Cheers [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcn5fN8mnc&w=480&h=270] Doreen Namasala has been a community health worker for over a decade in rural Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeast Africa. With a population of roughly 15 million, an estimated 60 percent of women report having… Continue reading
Apr 25 How Cell Phones Are Helping Fight Malaria By Imani Cheers Community health workers receive new cell phones as incentives to continue their malaria rapid reporting. Photo by Imani Cheers/PBS NewsHour. LIVINGSTONE, Zambia --Tokozile Ngwenya-Kangombe, a project coordinator with Akros Research, knows first-hand how dangerous malaria can be for… Continue reading
Mar 26 ‘The World Needs You, Badly,’ Edward O. Wilson Tells Young Scientists Biologist Edward O. Wilson studies fire ants at Harvard University on Sept. 8, 1975. Photo by Hugh Patrick Brown/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Edward O. Wilson's "Letters to a Young Scientist" arrived in the mail this week. Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch News Wrap: British Food Safety Office Orders Testing After Horse Meat Revelation In other news Friday, the British government has ordered that products be tested after a major European food supplier found horse meat had been marketed as a beef ingredient. Also, police in California and Nevada continued their manhunt for Christopher… Continue watching
Dec 24 Watch In Haiti, a Mission of Religion and Medicine for Father Rick The Rev. Rick Frechette went to Haiti 25 years ago on a religious mission to shelter families "broken by tragedy." In his mid-40s, he decided to become a doctor and built a modern pediatric medicine facility. Fred de Sam Lazaro… Continue watching