Health Care

Zika, microcephaly and global climate change

Are deforestation and global climate change responsible for the Zika crisis sweeping across equatorial countries in the Western Hemisphere? Are…

February 25, 2016

Why Zika virus crisis is hitting Brazil

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus, is spreading quickly in 33 countries. The virus was identified in Brazil for the first time…

February 8, 2016

Ebola cases reappear in Liberia, Guinea

Regional and international health officials emphasize that the Ebola virus disease crisis is not over, as three new cases have…

December 2, 2015

Cuba: Socialist health care beating heart disease

As in much of the world, heart disease is a leading cause of death in Cuba, but the country has…

October 25, 2015

Trial of Ebola vaccine seen as promising

A recent trial of a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus disease has taken place in the West African state…

August 5, 2015

Ebola Virus Disease not yet defeated in West Africa

Even though the three states where the Ebola Virus Disease struck last year have been declared free of the epidemic,…

July 26, 2015

Cuba eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV

By E. Catalinotto, Certified Nurse Midwife Cuba became the first country certified by the World Health Organization as having eliminated…

July 10, 2015

Despite reported decline, struggle against Ebola continues

African leaders, health care professionals, international humanitarian organizations and others have praised the work battling the latest and most deadly…

March 7, 2015

The IMF and debt worsen the Ebola epidemic

By Jérôme Duval Member of the Citizen’s Debt Audit Platform Publico, Feb. 1 Although the International Monetary Fund claims it…

February 6, 2015

Despite decline in Ebola cases, global attention needed

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan reports that the number of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases are rapidly declining.…

January 26, 2015