Aid | Pulitzer Center

Seeking Answers in the Quick Spread of Ebola in West Africa

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling and Michael G. Seamans

The vicious cycle that fueled Ebola's spread: Distrust leads to noncompliance leads to hardship leads to distrust.

June 02, 2015 | Portland Press Herald

Nonprofit Adds Traditional Healers to Health Care Team in Sierra Leone

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling and Michael G. Seamans

The best way to prevent another Ebola nightmare from happening in Sierra Leone is simple and low-tech: Build trust.

May 30, 2015 | MambaTV

Talk Show on Ebola Money Features Pulitzer Center Journalist and Reggae

Amy Maxmen

Amy Maxmen was interviewed on MambaTV about donor spending on Ebola, in a special that also includes a reggae song about the Ebola money.

May 29, 2015 | Humanosphere

Lost on the Ebola Money Trail

Amy Maxmen

In trying to figure out where money was spent in the Ebola crisis, I learned just how fragmented and messy global health finance is.

May 28, 2015 | GlobalPost

Q&A: Why Doesn't Aid Go to Nurses?

Amy Maxmen

During the Ebola outbreak, but also before, foreign assistance largely dodged national health systems—including the workforce that comprised them. The WHO's Jim Campbell explains.

May 24, 2015 | Tiny Spark

Tracking the Aid Money: Mission Impossible

Amy Costello, for Tiny Spark

Billions of taxpayer dollars go to aid in a crisis, but neither a reporter on Ebola nor an economist looking at Haiti could figure out where the money went.

May 03, 2015 | nhpr

A New Hampshire Reporter Gets a Firsthand Look at Sierra Leone

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Can a small NGO overcome a centuries-long culture gap to bring pregnant mothers, and the traditional healers those mothers trust, into a health clinic?

April 27, 2015 | The Lancet

Sub-Saharan Africa: Finding Surgery's Place on the Global Health Agenda

Bridget Huber

Billions of people worldwide do not have access to even the simplest surgical procedures. But a new global initiative hopes to change the situation.

April 27, 2015 | Al Jazeera

Climate Change, Food Shortages, and Conflict in Mali

Chris Arsenault

Rainfall has dropped by 30 percent since 1998 in the West African country, leaving nearly 2 million in need of food aid.

April 26, 2015 | Valley News

When Science, Faith Clash: In Sierra Leone, a Deadly Gap Between Ritual and Medical Practices

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

The world looked down on Sierra Leone's Ebola victims for fleeing medical treatment. But the reasons they fled were not only understandable—they're everywhere, including in the United States.

April 25, 2015 | The Seattle Times

Seattle Group’s Training Program Saves Lives of Moms and Babies in Kenya

Paul Nevin

Women in sub-Saharan Africa have a one in 38 chance of dying as a result of complications from pregnancy or childbirth. Low-tech interventions are flipping the script in Kenya.

April 22, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Sierra Leone: Take It All Off! (Thoughts on Ebola, Maternal Care and Willy Wonka)

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling looks at the protective gear that maternal health care workers wear in Sierra Leone.

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