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Having a stroke, one of the world’s leading causes of death and disability, can be debilitating even with access to the best health-care systems. It’s even more devastating in poor, remote areas of the developing world, but with the clever use of basic and ubiquitous technologies like cell phones, a Peruvian researcher says, it doesn’t need to be.
Among the many activities pegged to the UN Millennium Development Goals meeting to be held in New York in a…
Yawner, you say? Not if you read the news on this report. Annual reports are often pretty boring. And the…
Billionaire investor George Soros said today he will give $100 million to Human Rights Watch to further pursue its work…
Neon BrainFlickr, by Dierk Schaefer Is it Kala-azar black fever? Elephantiasis? African sleeping sickness? Guinea worm? How about mental illness?…
Dr. Gordon Perkin, one of the co-founders of PATH and the Gates Foundation’s first director of global health, receives Canada’s…
Writer Sally James, who has done an extensive article for Seattle magazine about the reverberating impact of the Gates Foundation,…
PillsFlickr, by Rodrigo Senna One of the international community’s top priorities (Millennium Development Goal number eight) is to make sure…
Zambian Michael Gwaba, who is HIV-positive and alive today because of access to anti-retroviral drugs, is in Seattle this week…
Flickr, World Bank Planting in Kenya Boosting agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa is critical to the fight against poverty and…
Here’s a good description, in an interview with one of the program leaders of Partners in Health’s Haiti program, about…
CDC A Sneezer Seasonal flu kills a lot of people and the media (including me) typically report that influenza causes…
CDC Ghanaian Boy with Smallpox This was a horrible, terrifying disease. Smallpox. It’s hard for many of us to appreciate…