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Health workers in India are overcoming cultural mistrust about polio immunization by turning to local Muslim clerics for support.
An Afro-Caribbean community on the Atlantic coast of Central America uses its rich musical tradition to fight an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Indian society strongly prefers boys at every stage of life. Here's how some mothers are trying to change that.
For centuries, drumming has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has found an additional purpose.
Student politics in Liberia usually focus on better tuition and lower fees but one student leader insists that lack of clean water and sanitation facilities is the biggest problem students face.
Garifuna singer-songwriter Aurelio Martinez renews a passion for helping his community in Honduras.
Listen to "Sandi Le," the song Garifuna music greats Aurelio Martinez and Rolando "Chichiman" Sosa wrote and recorded with Jens Erik Gould about HIV.
India has now gone two full years without a single new case of polio. If it continues on this track, it will be declared polio-free in February 2014.
Receiving a disability grant in South Africa can be likened to winning the lottery. HIV positive residents who are poor may be forced to choose between their life and money to feed their families.
Changing engrained social practices, like chaupadi, is never as simple as an activist campaign.
The good news is that people in Cambodia are living longer. The bad news is they're getting chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Finding treatment is extremely difficult.
Women in rural Nepal sleep in huts, caves and animal sheds every month during their periods — a practice called chaupadi.
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