Nov 11 Watch Nicaragua Combats Pneumonia in Country’s Young Via New Vaccine Each year, pneumonia kills more children around the world than malaria, measles and HIV combined. Ray Suarez reports from Nicaragua on efforts to combat the lung infection, which is the leading killer of children under the age of five. Continue watching
Sep 26 Rapid Testing Sharply Cuts HIV Patient Dropout Rate HIV clinic in Mozambique. Photo by Talea Miller. Every time an HIV clinic tells a patient to come back for more testing or for laboratory results there is a risk the patient will never return. This happens so frequently… Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch Girl Effect: Helping Poor Girls Makes Economic Sense Girl Effect: Helping Poor Girls Makes Economic Sense… Continue watching
Sep 05 Discrimination Haunts Pregnant Women with HIV By Talea Miller HIV-positive women in Kenya face resistance when they want to become mothers. 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
Jun 17 Imprisoned Iranian Doctors Honored for HIV Work By Beat Beat Two Iranian brothers who promoted compassionate HIV care and were imprisoned by the government were awarded the 2011 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights Thursday night. Continue reading
Jun 16 Q&A: Head of the Global Health Initiative Talks Next Moves By Beat Beat The Obama administration's Global Health Initiative is marking its first anniversary at work in eight focus countries, and is preparing to expand to 20 more by the end of the summer. Continue reading
Jun 10 5 Global Health Headlines: Escaping Syria, Aids at 30, Viagra as a Weapon? By Talea Miller The NewsHour's global health beat rounds up key stories from the week. Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch AIDS at 30: Who’s at Greatest Risk of Infection Now? In the spring of 1981, young gay men in New York and California were being sickened by rare forms of pneumonia and cancer, and the unknown disease fueled fears across society. What we now know as HIV/AIDS was once considered… Continue watching
Jun 07 30 Years of HIV/AIDS: Progress, but No Answer By Maureen Hoch This week marks 30 years that the HIV virus has been with us. Continue reading