5 Stories to Follow During UN WeekIt’s that time of year! World leaders are gathering at the United Nations this week for the start of the...
Meet America’s Foremost Zika FighterDr. Peter Hotez is one of the world’s leading experts on so-called Neglected Tropical Diseases. These are a set of...
Collecting honest data on maternal deaths gives us the information we need to save women’s lives.Maternal death is one of the thorny problems of global health. Many different factors can cause a mother to lose...
Did farming practices in China create an antibiotic resistant bacteria that’s spreading around the world?One of the least reported global health stories of the last decade is the rises of bacteria that resist antibiotics....
Congress Has Failed to Fund Zika Response and Now, As Predicted, It’s Come to the USAThis week has seen the first reports of Zika in Florida and new reporting from the US Centers for Disease...
Will an AIDS Mega-conference in Durban contribute to the end of HIV?The 21st International AIDS conference – AIDS2016 -draws to a close today. Held every two years, this massive conference brings...
Here’s what a new UN report says about trends in global drug useThe United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime just released its annual drug report. In summary, things are okay. We...
The current human diet is already harming people and the planet, and if we don’t change the way we eat there won’t be enough food for everyone by 2050.We are facing a food crisis. The human population is outstripping the capacity of the world to feed it; this...
What can the fight against Malaria teach us about Zika?Zika is spread by so mosquitoes, so to stop Zika, you have to stop the mosquitoes. And mosquitoes are everywhere. Fortunately,...
