Africa

New Yorkers ACT-UP against Ebola

New York -- Some 100 activists rallied here outside Bellevue Hospital in a protest organized by the AIDS Coalition to…

November 5, 2014

Ebola in U.S.: Struggle over quarantine, stigmatization

Oct. 27 — Epidemiology nurse Kaci Hickox had traveled to Sierra Leone on behalf of Doctors Without Borders to help…

October 31, 2014

Ebola cases surpass 10,000 in West Africa

World Health Organization officials announced on Oct. 24 that the number of Ebola virus disease cases now exceeds 10,000. Most…

October 31, 2014

ALBA-TCP charts Ebola action plan

At the initiative of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, on Oct. 20 heads of state from the Bolivarian Alliance for the…

October 31, 2014

Staten Island, N.Y., hosts Ebola Summit

An Ebola Summit held here at the Berta Dreyfus Public School 49 on Oct. 25 brought together a diverse group…

October 29, 2014

Heroes of the Ebola crisis

It is clear that Ebola is the most dangerous emerging infectious disease since the HIV/AIDS crisis began in the 1980s.…

October 29, 2014

Cuba, Ebola & the Cuban 5

Revolutionary leader and former Cuban President Fidel Castro’s Oct. 17 reflection, “Duty calls,” explains Cuba’s urgent mobilization of medical personnel…

October 23, 2014

Ebola & failure of for-profit medical care

Oct. 13 — With the death of Thomas Eric Duncan in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on Oct. 8,…

October 13, 2014

Ebola crisis requires global response

Sept. 29 — A special session at the 69th U.N. General Assembly discussed the spread of the Ebola virus in…

October 1, 2014

Ebola crisis in Africa: Cuba sends health care workers, U.S. sends troops

Eight experts and journalists visiting the West African state of Guinea were found dead in Nzerekore on Sept. 20. They…

September 25, 2014