Doctors Without Borders Are Now Doctors In Anguish
Jason Cone, executive director of the aid group, talks about the impact of the bombing on his staff — and on the people of Afghanistan.
Global Health
How They Spent Their Global Summer Vacation
Students of global health are just back from summer trips around the world, learning about mental health, latrine shortages and mosquitoes. They share their experiences — and their tweets of advice.
Scottish Nurse Who Recovered From Ebola Is Back In Isolation
Pauline Cafferkey, who caught the virus last winter in Sierra Leone, was taken to the hospital with an "unusual late complication" from her previous infection. That's a surprise — and a concern.
To Prevent The Next Plague, Listen To Boie Jalloh
He's a doctor, an imam and a millennial. His ideas about fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone are part of the reason that, this week, the three countries at the center of the epidemic reported no new cases.
Can't Afford School? Girls Learn To Negotiate The Harvard Way: #15Girls
Madalitso Mulando needed help. She didn't have the money to pay for her 10th-grade tuition. Then she learned the art of negotiation from the gurus at Harvard Business School.
World Health Organization Posts Ambitious New Guidelines For HIV Treatment
The World Health Organization has revised its guidelines to say that every person infected with HIV should now be given powerful anti-AIDS drugs. But many countries in Africa have struggled to meet previous less-ambitious WHO treatment targets.
The Surreal Reasons Girls Are Disappearing In El Salvador: #15Girls
Refuse to share a pencil, reject a boy, say no to your imprisoned dad — all of these can get a teen girl killed in El Salvador's gang war.
Saving For A Wedding When You Make 53 Cents A Day
Even people who tread the line between deep and extreme poverty can manage to pull off a wedding. For one woman in Bangladesh, it took clever planning and seizing every opportunity.
Doctors Without Borders Has Mixed Feelings About Award For Ebola Work
Lasker Award recipients include the medical aid group that fought the virus on the front line. Dr. Deane Marchbein shares her thoughts about the honor — and why it makes her a bit uncomfortable.
3 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
The scientists from the U.S., Japan and China were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for discovering drugs to treat parasitic diseases such as malaria, river blindness and elephantiasis.