Jimmy Carter Defeats Mortal Enemy in South SudanYesterday, the minister of health for the country of South Sudan announced that they had successfully put a stop to...
The World Health Organization Wants You To Worry About “Disease X”Every year, the World Health Organization commissions an expert committee identify the most threatening infectious diseases of the upcoming year....
Why You Should Be Freaking Out that the US Centers for Disease Control Is Massively Cutting its Overseas Operations. (Hint: Diseases Like Ebola Don’t respect borders)About two weeks ago, an internal memo leaked from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It informed...
Cases of a Deadly Fever Are Spiking in Brazil Right Before Carnival. How Worried Should We Be?The World Health Organization this week reported a three fold increase in the number of cases of Yellow Fever in...
Can Everyone, Everywhere in the World Get Health Insurance? A New UN Report Shows HowUniversal Health Coverage means health insurance for everyone, everywhere on the planet. It is one of the top Sustainable Development...
Global Progress on Malaria Eradication “Stalled” According to a New WHO Report. Here’s WhyIt’s easy to think of malaria as an old-fashioned disease. We know malaria really, really well. It’s the kind of...
A Major Global Report About Nutrition Around World Shows That We Are All Eating the Wrong ThingsThe 2017 Global Nutrition report was released last week. It describes a world where people are eating the wrong things. While it...
Tuberculosis is easily treated. So Why Is It Still The Most Deadly Infectious Disease in the World?The World Health Organization released the 2017 World Tuberculosis (TB) report this week. The conclusions are sobering. On the one hand,...
For the first time, Women Outnumber Men in Senior Posts at a UN AgencySomething looked very different when the Director General of the World Health Organization introduced his senior leadership team this week....
