Seeking Answers in the Quick Spread of Ebola in West Africa
The vicious cycle that fueled Ebola's spread: Distrust leads to noncompliance leads to hardship leads to distrust.
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The vicious cycle that fueled Ebola's spread: Distrust leads to noncompliance leads to hardship leads to distrust.
The best way to prevent another Ebola nightmare from happening in Sierra Leone is simple and low-tech: Build trust.
Amy Maxmen was interviewed on MambaTV about donor spending on Ebola, in a special that also includes a reggae song about the Ebola money.
In trying to figure out where money was spent in the Ebola crisis, I learned just how fragmented and messy global health finance is.
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.
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.
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?
Billions of people worldwide do not have access to even the simplest surgical procedures. But a new global initiative hopes to change the situation.
Rainfall has dropped by 30 percent since 1998 in the West African country, leaving nearly 2 million in need of food aid.
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.
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.
Matt Hongoltz-Hetling looks at the protective gear that maternal health care workers wear in Sierra Leone.