The Two Main Reasons HIV is Still Around After All These YearsHow is HIV not over yet? We have drugs that treat it and prevent transmission to others. We have a...
No, We Don’t Need to Cancel the Rio Olympics over ZikaOver the past week, a number of scientists and bio-ethicists expressed deep concern that holding the Olympics this summer in...
Female genital mutilation harms women. So why are there so few medical options for reducing that harm?The World Health Organization has released new guidelines on care for women who have been subjected to genital mutilation (FGM)....
Yellow Fever is Back. How Worried Should We Be?Yellow fever is back. On May fifth, the World Health Organization issued an alarming yellow fever “situation report.” In it, the...
Justin Trudeau Just Gave the Fight Against The Biggest Global Killers a Serious Shot in the ArmThe Global Fund is a giant pool of money created in 2002 to address the three leading killers around the...
One year after the Nepal earthquake, clean water is still in short supplyBindu Nagarkoti pulls a blanket over her 10-month-old baby and gets ready for an afternoon full of household chores and...
Malaria cases are plummeting worldwide. But there’s one place it’s making a comebackEd note. This op-ed, by Thierry Diagana and Nick White, originally appeared in Project Syndicate and is reprinted with permission. ...
The entire world is changing polio vaccines. That’s a good thing.Polio is irrelevant in most of the world. Once the terror of many childhoods, for most people it exists only...
4 Charts and 1 Stephen Curry Explain How Humanity is Winning the Fight Against MalariaWhat a difference 15 years makes. In 2000 839,000 people died each year from Malaria. Last year, that figure was...