Map of the Day: Can Sierra Leone Kick Ebola?Today’s map comes from the World Health Organization. It shows the number of days each district of Sierra Leone has...
An HIV Outbreak in Rural Indiana is a Global Health Story Set in the USAA community in rural Indiana is beset by an outbreak of HIV. The virus has spread quickly among users of...
Rubella Goes The Way of the DodoRubella has been eliminated from the Americas. More specifically, there has been no indigenous transmission of the virus in North...
Humanity Can — and Will — #DefeatMalariaBelieve it or not, humans are winning the millennia old fight against Malaria. Last year about 500,000 people died from...
Inside the Winning Fight Against MalariaHumanity is winning the fight against Malaria. Since the advent of the Global Fund, the Millennium Development Goals and the...
Top UN Officials Warn of Ebola’s Stubborn Persistence in West AfricaToday, at the IMF-World Bank Group Spring Meeting leaders of the three Ebola-affected West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra...
How to Solve Childhood TB (Video)For World Tuberculosis Day today, the TB Alliance is shining the spotlight on a sometimes overlooked aspect of the global...
Guinea Worm Eradication is NearGuinea Worm is a waterborne disease that affects only the poorest of the poor people on the planet. But after millennia of...
Why Healthcare Systems in the Developing World Need a Shot in the ArmThe ebola crisis has demonstrated that countries with very weak health care systems are extremely vulnerable to an otherwise preventable...