An Ebola Clinic Figures Out A Way To Start Beating The Odds
One reason the Ebola virus is so terrifying is that it's so lethal. Researchers estimate that the strain circulating in West Africa is killing upward of 70 percent of those it infects. Even among those...
View ArticleEbola Survey Teams Take A Grim Census In Sierra Leone
Ebola is on the rise in Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown.
View ArticleWorld's Slow Response To Ebola Leaves Sierra Leone Villages Scrambling
If you think the fight against Ebola is going well, here's a grim new number: 537.That's how many new infections were reported in Sierra Leone in the past week. It's the highest weekly tally in any...
View ArticleThe Prostitutes Are Not Happy. Neither Are Brides. Sex, Love And Ebola
Wedding dress rentals are way down. Condoms are no longer a hot item. And prostitutes are having trouble finding customers.Blame it all on Ebola.With at least 300 new cases a week in Sierra Leone, the...
View ArticleBillions Go To Victims Of Disaster And Disease. Does It Really Help?
The news is filled with stories of people in need. Perhaps they've just lived through an earthquake. Or they're war refugees. Or they're facing a deadly epidemic like Ebola.Your heart goes out to them.
View ArticleSneak Peek At The Ebola Diaries: A Doctor Opens Her Heart, Journal
Tomorrow Morning Edition will broadcast an audio documentary based on a blog by American doctor Kwan Kew Lai. Starting last October, Dr. Lai wrote almost every day, for six weeks, while volunteering at...
View ArticleThe Ebola Diaries: Trying To Heal Patients You Can't Touch
For six weeks, American doctor Kwan Kew Lai kept a blog, almost every day, while she volunteered at an Ebola treatment center in Liberia.Ebola treatment centers are isolated, self-contained worlds,...
View ArticleFrom Haiti's Earthquake To Ebola, He Had 5 Busy Years At USAID
How's this for a tough first week on the job: An earthquake rocked Haiti just five days after physician Rajiv Shah took over as head of the main U.S. agency for overseas disaster relief. The death toll...
View ArticleThe View From A Muddy Field In China: Women's Rights, In 1995 And Now
Midtown New York City is buzzing with thousands of women's rights activists. They're in town for a milestone session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which runs through the end...
View ArticleHow Far Has The Health Of Moms Come Since 1995?
Officials and activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the landmark 1995 World Conference on Women.Although there were a lot of depressing...
View ArticleAlarming Number Of Women Think Spousal Abuse Is Sometimes OK
Domestic violence is never OK.
View ArticleAs Ebola Crisis Ebbs, Aid Agencies Turn To Building Up Health Systems
Michelle Niescierenko is a pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital. But for the past five months she has been in Liberia, helping the country's 21 public hospitals get back on their...
View ArticleAn Artist's Brainstorm: Put Photos On Those Faceless Ebola Suits
How often does this happen: You're listening to a news story describing some problem halfway around the world and you say to yourself, "I know how to fix that!" It's not your area of expertise. It's...
View ArticleAs Ebola Cases Dwindle, West Africa Turns To Economic Recovery
West Africa is about to receive a hefty infusion of cash. This Friday the World Bank unveiled a major aid package for the three West African countries at the center of this past year's Ebola...
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Baltimore State's Attorney Known For Understanding City's Poor Communities
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now, more about the woman who's building the case against those six officers. Marilyn Mosby is 35 years old....
View ArticleIt's Not A Come-On From A Cult. It's A New Kind Of Poll!
You get a visit by someone you've never met before. You're invited on an all-expense paid trip to your country's biggest city for a two-day meeting on natural gas policy.Oh, and if you show up you get...
View ArticleHow Do You Motivate Kids To Stop Skipping School?
It seems like a no-brainer: Offer kids a reward for showing up at school, and their attendance will shoot up. But a recent study of third-graders in a slum in India suggests that incentive schemes can...
View ArticlePeople Are Finally Talking About The Thing Nobody Wants To Talk About
When Elynn Walter walks into a room of officials from global health organizations and governments, this is how she likes to get their attention:"I'll say, 'OK, everyone stand up and yell the word...
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U.N. Report Highlights Surprising Global Progress On Poverty Goals
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