Public Health
Sean Gallagher documents the lives of India's growing army of e-waste workers and the impact the industry is having on their health and local environment.
Vietnam has less than 30 percent of the funding needed to fight tuberculosis. Only able to finance the most basic treatment programs, the country may soon be faced with the spread of a drug-resistant
Years after the end of brutal, decades-long civil war, Liberia has little in terms of a mental health infrastructure. But the need is great, and progress is painstakingly slow
In Vietnam, the greatest challenge to fighting TB is finding the people in need of diagnosis before they spread the disease to others.
Through first-person accounts and photographs, reporter Jim Burress presents an audio slideshow of Liberia's efforts to build a mental health infrastructure.
India's poor hospital infrastructure proves to be an obstacle in tackling the region's high infant mortality.
Why the surprising Philippine Supreme Court ruling on reproductive health rights is a big win for women — and a blow to the Catholic Church.
Poor nations lag far behind their wealthier counterparts since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development shifted the global focus from birth control to women's rights.
High on a mountainside on the remote Philippine island of Mindanao, a village sits over one of the world's richest gold deposits. Here, the quest for gold is more important than health.
Pulitzer Center grantee Michael Edison Hayden first became interested in India's government hospitals after his wife gave birth to their son last May at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai.
Pulitzer Center grantee Larry C. Price talks about the use of mercury in small-scale gold mining.
Journalist Kwame Dawes explores the shame culture that isolates homosexuals and persons with HIV/AIDS in Jamaica.
Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel report on the silent crisis of abortion in Nigeria.