This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We see roughly 20 patients a day, mostly for STI (sexually transmitted infection) screening, family planning, and HIV treatment. We thought if we only offered HIV testing, patients might not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. My history with HIV goes back to my training in the late 1980s and early ’90s, when we started seeing infants infected through mother-to-child transmission. Treatment was just beginning to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every day malaria kills almost 1,200 people, according to the World Health Organization. Twelve hundred people every day. The main step we can take to end this horrible disease is to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Theresa Chan is a doctor from the U.S. who has been working in an MSF / Doctors without Borders clinic in Cambodia. As she comes to the end of her…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s a simple reason that most professionals in the Swedish healthcare system have never even seen tetanus, other than in academic literature: the vaccine. Tetanus is among the worst diseases…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Northern Nigeria was down to its last remaining cases of Guinea worm disease, Dr. Adamu Keana Sallau and his team had to get creative. As the Carter Center director for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Addiction and depression are, sadly, nothing new, in the music industry. As long as there have been rock stars there have been too early tragic demises, from Jim Morrison and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Diagnosing a concussion can sometimes be a guessing game, but clues taken from small molecules in saliva may be able to help diagnose and predict the duration of concussions in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2030 diseases associated with wealth will kill more people in sub-Saharan Africa than diseases associated with poverty. The sharp increase in diseases linked to lifestyle, or noncommunicable diseases (NDCs), is putting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Somaliland, cholera is a symptom of drought. Rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa have disappointed for three consecutive years, now heading into the fourth. As crops fail, livestock…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Almost 21 million people around the world are now getting life-prolonging AIDS drugs, according to a report issued on Monday. But another 16 million people infected with H.I.V. are not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tuberculosis will cost the world economy close to $1 trillion in lost economic output by 2030, unless countries step up efforts to fight the disease, according to a report launched…