In a country starved for resources with a crippled public health system, one nonprofit is determined to make more of Haiti’s health-care facilities affordable, sustainable and resilient to natural catastrophes.
The controversial Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has started work to expand health-care access in low-income countries through its nonprofit Novartis Foundation. The expansion into a role that builds health systems is stirring all kinds of questions.
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Mile 91, Sierra Leone – The morning sun has yet to spill through the clinic windows and Dr. Peter Koneh…
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Gilles van Cutsem, a physician and Medical Director for Médecins Sans Frontières /…
No one could have predicted that Ebola would dominate global health headlines in 2014. We sure didn’t. The virus was…
Some 9 million people developed tuberculosis in 2013, according to the World Health Organization in a report released today. It…
The continued spread of Ebola in West Africa has both exposed problems with the international response and the existing state…
Yeah, that’s a provocative headline. No, we’re not talking about some movie thriller like Constant Gardner, in which an evil drug…
There are not enough health workers responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. So far, Ebola has infected more…