Alanna Shaikh, MPH, Author at UN Dispatch

This tiny ring can stop HIV in its tracks

Protecting women from HIV is one of the enduring challenges of the global response to AIDS. The most effective method...

Zika Virus – How Worried Should we be, Anyway?

Zika is a virus that spreads via mosquito rather than person-to-person. Historically it has been confined to a narrow area...

Climate Change is bringing this deadly bacterial disease to the USA

Melioidosis is a little-known bacterial infection that affects both humans and animals. It responds to very few antibiotics and is...

Bombings in Turkey

A bomb exploded in the tourism heart of Istanbul today. A bomb killed ten German tourists near Sultanahmet square, close...

Antibiotics are essential to human health. So why are we wasting them to make farm animals a tiny bit bigger?

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is one of the most terrifying under-the-radar issues in global health. All of...

The WHO Tells Us What We Don’t Want to Hear About Sexually Transmitted Infections

The World Health Organization announced new data today on syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis. All four infections are sexually transmitted,...

USDA: Climate Change Will Make Our Food Less Nutritious

Climate change is going to have a massive impact on food and food security. It’s both true and intuitive. Agriculture...

AIDS Related Deaths of Asian Teens are Up By Over 100%. Are Dating Apps to Blame?

AIDS is on a rapid increase among young people in Asia. And according to a new report by UNICEF, that’s...

We Could End the AIDS Epidemic in 15 years – or HIV Could Overwhelm Us

It’s difficult to pay attention to HIV. The disease has been haunting our consciousness since the 1980s. The language is...

This tiny ring can stop HIV in its tracks

Zika Virus – How Worried Should we be, Anyway?

Climate Change is bringing this deadly bacterial disease to the USA

Bombings in Turkey

Antibiotics are essential to human health. So why are we wasting them to make farm animals a tiny bit bigger?

The WHO Tells Us What We Don’t Want to Hear About Sexually Transmitted Infections

USDA: Climate Change Will Make Our Food Less Nutritious

AIDS Related Deaths of Asian Teens are Up By Over 100%. Are Dating Apps to Blame?

We Could End the AIDS Epidemic in 15 years – or HIV Could Overwhelm Us

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations

Author Alanna Shaikh, MPH