Here’s What Happens When Thousands of Fireworks are Set Off in the World’s Most Polluted CityResidents of the Indian capital Delhi woke up this morning to record-breaking smog suffocating the city. Millions of people last...
UN Approves Haiti Cholera Compensation Plan. But Who Will Actually Pay for It?The United Nations has agreed to compensate the victims of Haiti’s cholera outbreak as part of a $400 million aid...
This survey shows shows that endemic sexism harms both expectant mothers and the women who care for themMotherhood is still deadly for far too many women. In 2015, an estimated 303,000 women died in childbirth. Many more...
We’re in the middle of a dangerous Tuberculosis pandemic and we’re not doing enough to stop it.This is bad. Tuberculosis (TB) has been a global pandemic for over a decade now; we already knew it was...
Beware the Global SuperbugAt the United Nations last month there was a major meeting at the sidelines of the General Assembly about an...
In the Wake of Hurricane Matthew, Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic Could Get Much WorsePost-hurricane conditions are ideal incubators for cholera. And so far, thirteen people have died of cholera in Haiti since Hurricane...
This deadly, child killing disease has just been eradicated from an entire hemisphereOnce in a while, the global health news is good. Today is one of those days. The Pan American Health...
A rare thing happened at the UN this week: Leaders agreed to fix a problem BEFORE it becomes a full blown crisisMore than 700,000 people die each year from drug resistant bacteria. And if present trends continue, that number will skyrocket...
Antibiotic Resistance on Pace to Cause Global Economic Damage Akin to the 2008 Financial CrisisEd note. This is a special edition of The Takeaway, a regular feature in which global health and development expert...
