How Colonialism Explains Female HIV Rates in AfricaAround the world the HIV rates for men and women are more or less equal — except, that is, in...
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...
Chart of the Day: The Number of Unintended Pregnancies Drop WorldwideToday’s chart comes from the Guttmacher Institute, with data drawn from a just-published Lancet study that shows the rates of...
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....
New Study Reveals How A Specific Colonial Legacy Determines Female HIV Rates in Africa80% of all HIV positive women in the world live in sub-saharan Africa. This is the only region in the...
Will Ireland Join 133 Other Countries Where Abortion is Legal?The Prime Minister of Ireland recently announced that he will be campaigning to end the constitutional ban on abortion in Ireland. Ireland...
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...
9 Stories that will Drive the Global Agenda in 2018From potential nuclear armageddon to a new global compact on migration, and much in between– UN Dispatch presents our annual...
