Enduring Scars: Child Soldiers and Mental Health
by globalhealth on Dec 13, 2012 in Key Correspondent News
Key Correspondent Alex Bartoloni reports from the speech given by Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire November 16th,...
Are Emergency Responses Undermining the Health Systems?
by globalhealth on Dec 13, 2012 in Key Correspondent News
Key Correspondent Rinette Reimer reports on the Scaling Up Nutrition in Fragile Health and Community Systems learning seminar hosted by Concern Worldwide on December 10 2012....
Fighting Cholera, A Dose at a Time
by globalhealth on Dec 12, 2012 in News
Photo by Jon Lascher/Partners in Health. The United Nations announced a $2.2 billion initiative Tuesday aimed at curbing the spread of cholera in Haiti over the next 10 years through improved water and sanitation projects. The plan put forward by...
In India, A Secret Weapon Against Cancer: Vinegar
by globalhealth on Dec 12, 2012 in News
This story is part of a series, Cancer's New Battleground: the Developing World. Above: Indian women participate in a women's march in Mumbai on Monday. Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images. Cervical cancer used to kill more women in the...
Living With Breast Cancer Where Treatment Is Scarce
by globalhealth on Dec 11, 2012 in News
This story is part of a series, Cancer's New Battleground, the Developing World. Above, Haitians wait for the doors to open in 2006 at a free clinic in Cange. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western...
Cancer’s New Battleground: The Developing World
by globalhealth on Dec 10, 2012 in News
Uganda Cancer Institute. Photo by Jacqueline Koch. This story is the first in a five-part series produced by PRI in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The week of Dec. 10, the PBS NewsHour will post one story from the series...
Health and Human Rights Seminar
by globalhealth on Dec 6, 2012 in Uncategorized
NUI Galway and the IFGH are co-hosting a Health and Human Rights Seminar on 14 December 2012....
Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic
by globalhealth on Dec 4, 2012 in News
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioFRED DE SAM LAZARO: The 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti may still loom large in Americans' memory, but, in Haiti itself, that was at least three disasters ago, before Hurricanes Tomas last year, Isaac in August,...