Contraception delivered through female community health workers has helped reduce birthrates and infant mortality.
Australia has recently suffered droughts, floods, tropical storms and heat waves that many scientists warn climate change will bring, and the impact also has psychological effects.
In Australia, government researchers say climate change has definitely hit the country, hard. But farmers who are feeling it are not ready to believe it.
Joanne Silberner discusses her reporting on health-related issues with South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
Ken Weiss discusses the choices facing women garment workers in Bangladesh.
Through first-person accounts and photographs, reporter Jim Burress presents an audio slideshow of Liberia's efforts to build a mental health infrastructure.
Poor nations lag far behind their wealthier counterparts since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development shifted the global focus from birth control to women's rights.
Liberia, with its mental healthcare infrastructure overburdened, now must contend with a new challenge: access to medicine for those whose lives depend on it.
Starvation four decades ago in Cambodia and 70 years ago in the Netherlands appear to have long-term health consequences.
In Guatemala, a marimba band uses its music to spread the word about breastfeeding and good nutrition during the 1,000 Days.
Heart attacks, diabetes, cancer and depression—diseases once judged to be of affluence—have seen an uptick across the developing world.
More and more people in India are suffering from non-communicable diseases. But either they can't afford a treatment or they are not even aware of their disease.
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