Student Activist Returns Home to Fight Malaria
A Myanmar exile who fled the country during the 1988 uprising is back to help her country eliminate malaria.
A Myanmar exile who fled the country during the 1988 uprising is back to help her country eliminate malaria.
As malaria experts chart their battle plans, they are looking to the past for clues.
A new effort to reach migrant workers could make or break plans for malaria elimination.
A remote province of Cambodia is the epicenter of possibly the greatest threat to malaria control as the deadliest malaria parasite becomes resistant to drugs.
With the push to offer antiretroviral drugs to all HIV-infected people and no new funding on the horizon, resource-limited countries are going to have to become more creative in delivering care.
Massive, slow-motion landslides threaten the only land route into Alaska's North Slope oil fields. One 20-meter-high slide has bulldozed its way to within 40 meters of the road.
The “Lung Meeting” in South Africa heralds a new era in advocacy for tuberculosis.
Ecologist Sergey Zimov has created Pleistocene Park, a 14,000-hectare experiment testing whether hairy beasts can bring back ancient grasslands and prevent carbon-rich permafrost from thawing.
A father-son team in Siberia wants to bring millions of animals to the tundra to preserve the permafrost, which has more than a trillion tons of carbon frozen in the soil.
The indigenous tribes emerging from Peru's jungles fear for their lands and livelihoods. Without government protection, they may not be able to survive.
In Tijuana, ending AIDS seems a distant goal. The area lacks the necessary leadership and resources to fight the virus.
A growing number of locales have become convinced that they have the tools to halt their AIDS epidemics. But in others, a vast distance separates the dream from the reality.