Global Health – PBS NewsHour Podcast
1) This cancer survivor wants to stop kids in the Philippines from lighting up
As smoking rates have fallen in the U.S. and Europe, tobacco companies have focused their advertising elsewhere, especially Asia. In the Philippines, 25 percent of the population smokes, and cigarette...Show More
This cancer survivor wants to stop kids in the Philippines from lighting up
05:30 | Oct 14th, 2016
2) Why southern China is a hotbed for disease development
Pandemics like Zika and Ebola can originate in one continent and quickly spread to another. To stop outbreaks before they start, scientists are trying to identify regions conducive to the development ...Show More
3) Brazil grapples with Zika health emergency as Carnival begins
The Centers for Disease Control have released new guidelines for combating Zika virus, including a recommendation that men refrain from unprotected sex with women who are pregnant or trying to get pre...Show More
4) As epidemic escalates, can U.S. aid for Ebola be deployed quickly enough?
How effective will new U.S. aid and military support be in fighting Ebola? Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations and Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown Law School join Judy Woodruff for a deep...Show More
5) Obama pledges money and military personnel to nations struck by Ebola
The United States will offer 3,000 troops and financial help to health care systems in West Africa that are overwhelmed by Ebola. President Obama announced that U.S. forces will build new treatment fa...Show More
6) U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola
The number of deaths from the worst Ebola outbreak on record has now surpassed 2,300. To combat the epidemic, the U.S. has pledged funds, research and additional medical resources. Judy Woodruff sits ...Show More
U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola
09:43 | Sep 9th, 2014
7) News Wrap: Head of African terror group, Al Shabaab is dead
In our News Wrap Friday, the Pentagon confirmed the death of the leader of the African terror group, Al Shabaab. Also, flash floods and landslides have killed at least 116 in eastern Pakistan and Kash...Show More
8) One family’s quest to unite orphaned Chinese girls with a happy home
After reaching their fifties and raising their own children, Jenny and Richard Bowen adopted 2-year-old Maya from China after learning of poor orphanage conditions for abandoned girls. Sixteen years l...Show More
9) Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain
The international head of Doctors Without Borders has charged that many of the efforts to curtail the Ebola outbreak in West Africa have actually made it worse. Jeffrey Brown joins director of the Cen...Show More
10) Ebola’s spread hastens preparations for vaccine testing
An Ebola vaccine may be ready for human testing as early as next week. Though the vaccine is in its first stage of testing with humans, it showed favorable results in an infected monkey. Gwen Ifill le...Show More