Global Health

Haiti's 'Bayakou': Hauling Away Human Excrement By Hand

8:00am July 30, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

Haiti's capital city doesn't have a sewer system. Instead, so-called nightsoil, or human excrement, is largely removed by hand by workers who toil at night under cover of darkness.

Syrian refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp on the Jordanian border on 31 May 2017.

Health & Safety

How Do Refugee Teens Build Resilience?

7:00am July 30, 2017

by Maanvi Singh

We often think of resilience as something that comes from within. Syrian youngsters have a different perspective.

After the 2010 earthquake, NGOs dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage at the end of the Port-au-Prince city landfill, which borders the sea and is not lined with an impermeable material.

Health & Safety

You Probably Don't Want To Know About Haiti's Sewage Problems

2:30pm July 29, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

What went wrong with Haiti's sanitation plan? The story involves the queen of Spain, the "sanitation champion" and the man with the worst job in the world.

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Development Ventures International was the first investor in Mera Gao Power, which has designed a solar-powered microgrid to provide electricity to off-grid villages in India.

U.S. Suspends Applications For 'Innovative' Anti-Poverty Efforts

4:57pm July 28, 2017

by Tom Murphy

The Development Innovation Ventures has earned bipartisan praise for the grants it gives to programs that help the poor. So why is there a temporary suspension of new grant applications?

President Trump holds an executive order in January imposing the "Mexico City policy," which bans federal funds going to overseas organizations that perform or "promote" abortions. A fundraising effort initiated by a Dutch government minister has raised $

Dutch-Led Fund Raises $300 Million To Replace U.S. Funding For Sexual Health

2:59pm July 28, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

In March, the "She Decides" initiative announced $190 million for charities that would lose U.S. support under the Trump administration's anti-abortion policy. Since then, money has kept pouring in.

An HIV-positive mother in Thailand plays with her son, who did not contract the virus in utero. Thailand has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to the World Health Organization.

There's Great News — And Grim News — In The Fight Against HIV/AIDS

1:27pm July 28, 2017

by Natalie Jacewicz

The epidemic is always changing. Here's a look at some of the latest trends.

This photograph, taken on July 26, 2017, shows the room where a Pakistani teenage girl was raped as an act of revenge ordered by the tribal council in Muzaffarabad, a suburb of the city of Multan.

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Tribal Council Orders 'Revenge Rape' In Pakistan

5:03pm July 27, 2017

A 12-year-old girl was raped in a field. Then, on the orders of the tribal council, the girl's brother sexually violated the sister of the first rapist.

Careem, a ride-sharing app popular in Pakistan, tried a new twist: putting a matchmaker inside your car.

Pakistani Ride Sharing App Puts A Matchmaker In The Car

11:58am July 27, 2017

by Diaa Hadid

The Careem app ran a campaign: Book a car — and a matchmaker will join you. The company thought it was funny. But a lot of women hated it.

The Royal restaurant serves cheese arepas in Washington, D.C. As Venezuelans flee their troubled country, they bring with them a taste for the popular cornmeal cakes.

Arepas Are Conquering The World — But Dying At Home In Venezuela

7:08pm July 26, 2017

by Alejandro Puyana

For Venezuelans, the stuffed cornmeal cakes have long been the daily bread of life. Yet even as arepas are embraced from New York to Spain, they are disappearing in their hunger-wracked homeland.

A worker fogs a neighborhood on the outskirts of Colombo in Sri Lanka in an effort to ward off mosquitoes. The country is facing an outbreak of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease.

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Dengue Fever Cases Top 100,000 In Sri Lanka's Outbreak

4:14pm July 26, 2017

by Courtney Columbus

A dengue fever outbreak has left some hospitals so full that they're turning away patients.