Building a Mental Health Infrastructure in Liberia
Through first-person accounts and photographs, reporter Jim Burress presents an audio slideshow of Liberia's efforts to build a mental health infrastructure.
Through first-person accounts and photographs, reporter Jim Burress presents an audio slideshow of Liberia's efforts to build a mental health infrastructure.
India's poor hospital infrastructure proves to be an obstacle in tackling the region's high infant mortality.
Despite a lack of success in providing adequate healthcare for the poor, Gujarat plans to expand its state health insurance program.
The stigma attached to AIDS patients leads to discrimination in India's state-run hospitals.
Poor rural healthcare contributes to high infant mortality rates in India's urban hospitals.
A mother joins a trial in Cape Town to find out her risks of passing her drug-resistant form of tuberculosis on to her daughter.
Providing adequate healthcare to India's massive and predominantly poor population is a daunting challenge.
What do you when patients with an airborne infectious disease are resistant to all drugs available to them? Hospitals in South Africa have limited resources and now patients are being sent home.
Liberia, with its mental healthcare infrastructure overburdened, now must contend with a new challenge: access to medicine for those whose lives depend on it.
Using new technologies to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis––South Africa's biggest killer.
Three victims of dowry violence in India speak out about the years of torment they endured and a practice that cuts across all socio-economic classes.
Aid to Kenya responds to the country's recurrent food crises but it fails to address the underlying infrastructure problems that could prevent such emergencies.