Health
Des Moines Register reporter Tony Leys and photojournalist Mary Chind talk about their project in Haiti.
An Iowa-based medical team has been traveling to rural Haiti for years, assisting residents with health crises while searching for long-term ways to help the people improve their own situations.
Due to cultural preferences for sons, 100 million girls are missing worldwide. Carl Gierstorfer looks at India, a country with a highly skewed sex ratio that threatens to destabilize its society.
As Ghana ramps up off-shore oil production, the government promises to attend to environmental concerns. But plans to cope with a catastrophic spill are noticeably missing.
Overuse of antibiotics and poor sanitation in India have created a powerful new antibiotic-resistant superbug, which has spread to a dozen countries, thanks in part to medical tourism.
Amid lingering tensions of the post-election conflict in the Ivory Coast, a water tap inside a refugee camp unifies a divided community.
Antibiotic resistant bacteria is spreading from India throughout the world, affecting those living in New Delhi slums as well as "medical tourists" who come to India for inexpensive treatment.
With urban populations increasing, Lake Titicaca is being polluted with waste from booming cities in Peru and Bolivia.
Ug99, a fungal disease known as wheat rust, could destroy 80 percent of all known wheat varieties. Scientists in Kenya's Rift Valley are joining a global fight against it.
International adoption is big business in Ethiopia, but serious ethical questions have been raised about some practices, including the falsification of documents and the "harvesting" of children.
Health experts consider legalized abortion in Africa a potential solution to one of the leading causes of death for women. But cultural taboos and colonial laws present challenges.
At the International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar this month, a new study suggesting that hormonal contraception shots may double the risk of women becoming H.I.V.-positive, created a stir.
Indian anti-corruption leader Anna Hazare says that he doesn't like to be compared to Mohandas Gandhi but that there is much in the latter's philosophy that he admires.