We Already Know Vaccines Save Lives. New Research Shows How They Fight Poverty, Too Mark Leon Goldberg February 18, 2019A measles outbreak is ravaging children in several states in the United States, including Washington and Oregon have sickened hundreds of of children, many unvaccinated. Thousands more have been exposed to the ...
Foodies Are Celebrating the New United Nations Holiday, World Pulses Day Mark Leon Goldberg February 8, 2019The United Nations General Assembly voted to add "World Pulses Day" to the official UN calendar of awareness raising holidays and commemorations. So, World Pulses Day will be commemorated for the first time at ...
Global Fund Replenishment Means Funding the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Mark Leon Goldberg January 11, 2019The Global Fund needs to replenish its reserves in order to fill its mission of fighting the world's three top diseases.The Global Fund is essentially a collective pool of money that supports governments, N...
Map of the Day: Where Malaria Has Been Defeated Mark Leon Goldberg November 19, 2018Today's map comes from the World Health Organization's flagship malaria report, which was released today. It shows the countries around the world that have defeated malaria, those that are on their way to elimi...
PODCAST: Why the Latest Ebola Outbreak in the DRC is So Dangerous Mark Leon Goldberg October 18, 2018An ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sickened over 200 people and resulted in over 130 deaths as of October 18. It could get worse.What makes this current outbreak so potent...
A New UN Report Finds that a Child Under the Age of 15 Dies Every 5 Seconds Joanne Lu September 21, 2018Globally, children have a greater chance of survival than ever before. Yet because of growing inequality, in 2017, a child under the age of 15 died every five seconds, a new UN report says, and most of those de...
The Good, Bad and REALLY Bad News from the World Health Organization’s Latest Report on Tuberculosis Alanna Shaikh, MPH September 19, 2018The World Health Organization released its annual Global Tuberculosis report on September 18th. The report is 250 pages long, a massive conglomeration of everything we know about the current state of the Tuberc...
Contagious Bacon? Why the UN is Warning About a New Swine Fever that Can Spread Through Food Alanna Shaikh, MPH September 4, 2018A unique kind of swine fever is spreading rapidly though China. The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reports a severe outbreak of a disease called African Swine Fever, or ASF, that may cross Chinese...
Europe is in the Midst of its Largest Measles Outbreak in Years — Ukraine is a Big Part of the Problem Alanna Shaikh, MPH August 24, 201841,000 cases of measles have been recorded in Europe as of June. Those are the highest numbers we’ve seen in years. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in existence, traveling person to person throu...
