Stories: Health
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Dispatch from China: Wrestling with Health care
Reporter's Notebook Like the United States, China is wrestling with its health care systems. And party officials are looking to the U.S. for good ideas as they struggle to provide ...
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Doctors in Peru battle increasingly drug-resistant TB
MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of ...
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MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru
Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What's worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the ...
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Video: New hope for fight against malaria
Malaria is among the world’s leading causes of preventable death. The disease is especially deadly among children under the age of five and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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Video: Kenya on the edge
Photographs provided by Evelyn Hockstein IRP home page photo by Andrea Crossan Hillary Clinton flew to Nairobi this week to address a US-Africa trade conference, but she had strong ...
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Disease Detectives in Kenya
The World Health Organization reported that the H1N1 swine flu virus has now sickened just shy of 60,000 people. That’s the number of confirmed cases worldwide. Of those, just ...
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Video: Kibera’s slum dwellers need more than promises
As urbanization grows across Africa, the continent's largest slum in Nairobi remains a humanitarian disgrace. A lack of government services leaves more than one million Kenyans ...
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Where AIDS is a family affair
Kogelo, Kenya -- Accompanied by two HIV counselors, we left the Kogelo Dispensary, walked down a dirt road for a little while, and then veered off down a path that twists among ...
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Reporter’s Journal: Snapshots of Kenya
My name is Andrea Crossan, and I’m a producer here at The World. As you can see, though, I’m not currently in Boston. I’m in Kenya for two weeks with the International ...
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Smiles and struggles in a Kenyan slum
CNN producer Linda Roth is traveling in Kenya with a dozen U.S. journalists seeing how life is lived and what problems Kenyans face now, and what hopes there are for the ...
