Public Health
As drilling operators search for shale gas in Poland, residents demand more information about the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing—fracking—on their communities.
Can you tell if that pill in your hand is real or merely a copy? Probably not. But your cell phone can.
An initiative allowing the provenance of medicines to be verified using mobile technology is taking aim at the illegal drug trade. Too tall a task?
In much of the developing world, women spend more time fetching water than any other activity in their day. For more than a billion people, the water they do get is unsafe.
In Ethiopia, where lack of access to water is a significant issue, aid groups have found that local involvement in establishing water wells betters the chances that they will last.
Produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens and Jack Chance of Outer Voices, and Nathalie Applewhite of the Pulitzer Center, the radio documentary, "LiveHopeLove: HIV/AIDS in Jamaica" is part of Hope:...
Inside the shade of a tribal hut in rural India, I am listening to Devudama tell her story in Telugu.
Signs of the earthquake in Haiti are everywhere in neighboring Dominican Republic.
Some of the most impoverished parts of the Dominican Republic are batayes - shantytowns that once housed sugar industry workers.
Mondays and Fridays are market days in Dajabon, the small frontier town in the northwest of the Dominican Republic on the border with Haiti.
HIV is one of the big problems facing Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
"Talking HIV in Jamaica" will be shown at the REEL Black Pix Global Afrikan Film Series on Saturday February 6, 2010 at 2pm (tentative).