May 18 Watch Can cross-border cooperation save the endangered rhino? By PBS News Hour Only about 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild today -- 73 percent of those wild rhinos are in South Africa -- and most of those live in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Authorities are desperately trying to combat a dramatic… Continue watching
May 17 International ad campaigns aim to reduce rhino horn demand By Connie Kargbo While park rangers are fighting the battle with poachers on the ground in South Africa, over the past few years ad campaigns by conservation groups have also been hitting airwaves and websites in consumer countries to discourage the consumption of… Continue reading
Mar 14 Top Five and Bottom Five Countries in U.N. Ratings By Larisa Epatko As in the U.N. Development Program's last review in 2011, Norway reigns supreme and the United States made the top five, while the African nations of Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo came in last. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch Mozambique Looks to Battle Illnesses to Boost Kids' IQs, Economy In the final report of his series on health issues in Mozambique, Ray Suarez reports on the country's high levels of childhood mortality and the connections between kids' illnesses and intelligence levels. Continue watching
Nov 23 Preventing Mother to Child HIV Transmission in Mozambique By Talea Miller More than 400,000 babies born to HIV-positive mothers are infected with the virus each year. Risk of transmission can be reduced to less than 2 percent through prevention programs, raising hope that this type of transmission can be nearly eliminated… Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch High Costs of HIV Medication Cause 'Terrible Dilemma' in Mozambique In Mozambique, where 1 in 8 adults is living with HIV, the number of patients on antiretroviral drugs has expanded thanks to international AIDS funding, but a debate is emerging over whether foreign donors can continue to fund an ever-expanding… Continue watching
Nov 22 Preview: Mozambique's Growth Not Benefitting Its Poorest By Ray Suarez Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries, grappling with high rates of poverty, HIV and malnutrition. But this coastal nation is also one of sub-Saharan Africa's star performers, posting steady economic growth year after year. We explore this dichotomy… Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch In Mozambique, Signs of Growth Seen Amid Rampant Poverty New international investment and steady growth have made Mozambique a promising African economy, but little of that change has trickled down to the citizens, many of whom still struggle to afford staple foods.In the first of three reports, Ray Suarez… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch Preview: Reporting on HIV in Mozambique Ray Suarez gives a preview of his series of Global Health Unit reports from one of the poorest countries in the world, Mozambique, where the number of cases of HIV and AIDS has strained medical and financial resources. Continue watching
Oct 22 Mozambique's Health Care Struggles Put Need for Basics Back in Focus By Ray Suarez MAPUTO | A few weeks ago at the U.N., I interviewed the Health Minister of Mozambique, Paolo Ivo Garrido. By the time I got to Maputo in October, Garrido had been dismissed as health minister in a cabinet reshuffling and… Continue reading