Jan 06 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Rape in Haiti Tent Camps, India Rejects HIV Patent By Talea Miller Corail tent camp outside Port-au-Prince. NewsHour photo. Rape in Haiti Camps The risk of rape and other sex crimes for women living in Haiti's tent camps has increased over the past year, according to an Amnesty International report released… Continue reading
Jan 06 Video Dispatch: Battling Cholera in Rural Haiti By Jeffrey Brown Jeffrey Brown is in Haiti this week reporting on reconstruction efforts after last year's earthquake. He's also following up on the country's ongoing cholera outbreak, which has killed more than 3,300 Haitians. He filed this dispatch on the… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch In Sudan, Possible New Country Poses Health Care System Challenges Less than 30 percent of people in southern Sudan have access to adequate health care. Widespread disease is threatening to overwhelm the African nation, where an upcoming secession referendum appears likely to create a new country. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye… Continue watching
Dec 29 Ray Suarez Responds to Critics of Cuba Series By Ray Suarez Cuba -- its past, present and future -- sits comfortably in a category, along with abortion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and now global climate change, of difficult stories to tell. No matter what the reporter writes, he or she is going… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch California Forges Ahead Implementing Health Reform Changes Spencer Michels looks at how the nation's most populous state is moving ahead on the new federal health care law. Continue watching
Dec 27 Watch States Have Much Discretion to Speed, Slow Health Reform's Effects While many aspects of the federal health reform law don't take full effect until 2014, states can choose whether to speed up or slow down some of the sweeping changes to the U.S. health care system. Margaret Warner gets some… Continue watching
Dec 27 Shortage of Cholera Vaccine an Obstacle in Haiti Response By Talea Miller Health experts are calling for the creation of a cholera vaccine stockpile so the vaccine can be deployed in future cholera outbreaks, like the one still spreading in Haiti. Continue reading
Dec 23 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Vatican Clarifies on Condoms, Cholera Vaccine By Talea Miller Vatican Clarifies Condom Statement The Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement Tuesday reaffirming that the church does not condone the use of condoms to prevent pregnancy, in an effort to clarify controversial statements made… Continue reading
Dec 22 Cuba Offers Poor Medical Students a Free Ride By Cat Wise On Wednesday's NewsHour, Ray Suarez wraps up his series on Cuba with a look at its medical diplomacy efforts around the world. HAVANA, Cuba | In an old naval academy on Havana's western shore, thousands of low-income students… Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch Debt-Free Doctors Part of Cuba's Foreign Policy Strategy Ray Suarez wraps up his series on Cuba with a look at a "medical diplomacy" program that offers medical school education to low-income students from around the world. Continue watching