Public Health

Is Empowering Women Key to Eradicating Global Hunger?

As global food prices continue to remain high, experts says there is one often-overlooked solution for fighting hunger: women.

April 01, 2011 | Pulitzer Center

Tuberculosis: A 21st Century Disease

Article By Stephen Hobbs, Video By Stephen Hobbs and Christina Maria Paschyn, Pulitzer Center

TB killed 1.7 million individuals in 2009. Are we treating one of the world’s deadliest diseases with the equivalent of “muskets and sticks?

March 24, 2011 | ABC News

World TB Day: David Rochkind uses photography in the fight against TB

How do you move an audience from passive viewership to engagement? David Rochkind discusses his educational portal on the Tuberculosis epidemic.

March 22, 2011 | Pulitzer Center

Water is Life: Women and Water in the Kibera Slum

Jake Naughton, for the Pulitzer Center

The international water shortage has created numerous challenges for populations in both rural and urban communities. In the slums of Nairobi, Kenya finding water and a solution falls disproportionately on women – especially young girls.

March 22, 2011 | PBS NewsHour

As Bangladesh's Population Grows, Slum Dwellers Struggle For Clean Water Access

Stephen Sapienza

Special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on an innovative approach for getting water to slum dwellers in Bangladesh.

The report is the latest in a series on global population issues in collaboration with National Geographic and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

This video was also featured on PBS Newshour Extra.

March 18, 2011 | The New Republic

Afghanistan Dispatch: Addicted

Anna Badkhen, Dawlatabad, Afghanistan

The enormous threat that cheap, available opium poses to the north’s children.

March 15, 2011 | Pulitzer Center

The Wounded in Transit

Meg Jones, for the Pulitzer Center, Landstuhl, Germany

Germany's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the first destination for American troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

March 14, 2011 | Pulitzer Center

A Second Chance on Life

Meg Jones, for the Pulitzer Center, Wiesbaden, Germany

The lowest donor country in the Eurotransplant network, Germany's growing percentage of organ donations comes from unlikely sources.

March 10, 2011 | The New Republic

Afghanistan Dispatch: Stolen Youth

Anna Badkhen, for the Pulitzer Center, Oqa, Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, fourteen children die every half hour.

February 25, 2011 | Global Health Magazine

Moldova: What Happens to MDR-TB Patients?

David Rochkind, Moldova

Moldova has one of the highest rates of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) anywhere in the world. The country's hospitals lack funding and resources to prevent the spread of this deadly disease.

February 21, 2011 | Pulitzer Center

Ganthier (Kreyol Version): A Voices from Haiti Visual Poem

The visual poem Ganthier in Kreyol.

Ganthier

February 21, 2011 | Pulitzer Center

Voices from Haiti: Job (Kreyol version)

Pou Joel Sainton. The visual poem Job in Kreyol.

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