Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu Experts: Use 1918 Methods to Fight Pandemic August 29, 2006 • When the next pandemic strikes, Navy researchers suggest reviving a treatment used during the deadly pandemic of 1918. Back then, military doctors injected severely afflicted patients with blood or blood plasma from people who had recovered from the flu. Studies show the treatment reduced mortality rates by as much as 50 percent. Experts: Use 1918 Methods to Fight Pandemic Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5731688/5732879" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Experts: Use 1918 Methods to Fight Pandemic Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5731688/5732879" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Still Looking for Malaria Vaccine, 10 Years Later August 21, 2006 • Ten years ago, researchers announced they were closing in on a vaccine for malaria, one of the deadliest diseases plaguing the developing world. But like many scientific breakthroughs making news when they're first announced, progress toward a vaccine has run into complications. Still Looking for Malaria Vaccine, 10 Years Later Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5683787/5683788" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Still Looking for Malaria Vaccine, 10 Years Later Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5683787/5683788" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Africa Update: Toronto AIDS Conference August 21, 2006 • Efforts to combat the spread of HIV in Africa was the highlight of the recent international AIDS conference, held this year in Toronto, Canada. Africa Update: Toronto AIDS Conference Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5683570/5683571" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Africa Update: Toronto AIDS Conference Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5683570/5683571" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Health Resistant TB Strikes South Africans with HIV August 18, 2006 • A disturbing form of tuberculosis has shown up among people infected with HIV in South Africa. It's resistant to all known TB drugs and is usually fatal. Health experts are concerned it will spread. But they also say new forms of this superstrain can be prevented by distributing TB drugs along with anti-HIV drugs. Resistant TB Strikes South Africans with HIV Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5671714/5671715" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Resistant TB Strikes South Africans with HIV Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5671714/5671715" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Health Toronto Conference Examines Latest in AIDS Fight August 18, 2006 • NPR's Richard Knox provides an update on this year's International AIDS Conference in Toronto, including new research into treatment and prevention efforts. Toronto Conference Examines Latest in AIDS Fight Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5670899/5670900" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Toronto Conference Examines Latest in AIDS Fight Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5670899/5670900" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
AIDS Conference to Debate HIV, Circumcision Link August 17, 2006 • How male circumcision affects the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, will be a featured topic at the International AIDS Conference taking place this week in Toronto, Canada. Data suggests that circumcising men in Africa could substantially reduce the number of new infections. AIDS Conference to Debate HIV, Circumcision Link Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5663820/5663821" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
AIDS Conference to Debate HIV, Circumcision Link Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5663820/5663821" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Uganda, Abstinence and the Spread of HIV August 14, 2006 • Doctors, philanthropists and community activists meet at the International AIDS conference in Toronto, Canada, to discuss ways to fight the spread of the disease. A central topic is Uganda, whose HIV-prevention work has been held up as a model for other countries. But health workers say the Bush administration's emphasis on abstinence over condoms has hurt Uganda. Uganda, Abstinence and the Spread of HIV Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5644177/5644178" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Uganda, Abstinence and the Spread of HIV Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5644177/5644178" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Research News HIV Vaccine Continues to Elude Researchers August 11, 2006 • This weekend, the 16th International AIDS Conference opens in Toronto, Canada. One topic is sure to receive a lot of attention: how to make an effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. HIV Vaccine Continues to Elude Researchers Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5637698/5637699" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
HIV Vaccine Continues to Elude Researchers Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5637698/5637699" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Africa: Portraits of Poverty In Tanzania, Women See a Path Out of Poverty August 10, 2006 • In Africa, women remain among the poorest of the poor despite producing three-quarters of the continent's food. But in Tanzania, some women are trying to gain a foothold toward self-sufficiency. In Tanzania, Women See a Path Out of Poverty Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5632059/5632089" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
In Tanzania, Women See a Path Out of Poverty Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5632059/5632089" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Africa: Portraits of Poverty In Africa, Overcoming the Risks of Childbirth August 9, 2006 • One out of every six children in Africa dies before the age of five. For African women, the chance of dying in childbirth is three times higher than in industrialized nations. Training caregivers and educating expectant mothers are among the solutions being tried to reverse those trends. In Africa, Overcoming the Risks of Childbirth Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5628726/5628756" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
In Africa, Overcoming the Risks of Childbirth Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5628726/5628756" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
World Africa: Portraits of Poverty August 8, 2006 • The United Nations has embraced an ambitious goal: halving poverty, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, reducing infant and maternal mortality and providing universal primary education. Charlayne Hunter-Gault examines these problems and the challenges of easing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa: Portraits of Poverty 5619332 August 6, 2006 • An estimated 180,000 children in Lesotho have lost parents to AIDS. The disease leaves orphans in southern Africa's tiny mountain kingdom struggling to survive and overwhelms the local health-care system. 5619332 Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5619332/5619339" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
5619332 Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5619332/5619339" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
World Health Organization Takes on Tobacco July 16, 2006 • The World Health Organization meets this weekend in Washington D.C. to discuss strategies for preventing tobacco-related health problems. Debbie Elliott speaks with Dr. Armando Peruga, a participant and the team leader for Pan-American Health Organization's tobacco control and consumer health program. World Health Organization Takes on Tobacco Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5561376/5561377" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
World Health Organization Takes on Tobacco Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5561376/5561377" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Living with HIV and AIDS The U.N.'s Role in the AIDS Fight July 12, 2006 • The United Nations and international aid groups have made progress fighting AIDS in the developing world, but much is left to be done. Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, talks with Farai Chideya about the epidemic. He is the author of Race Against Time. The U.N.'s Role in the AIDS Fight Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5551311/5551312" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
The U.N.'s Role in the AIDS Fight Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5551311/5551312" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Living with HIV and AIDS AIDS in Kenya: Glimmers of Hope July 12, 2006 • AIDS has devastated the lakeshore communities of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. But a handful of ambitious nonprofit programs give orphans a new home and widows a way to make a living. AIDS in Kenya: Glimmers of Hope Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5550378/5550546" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
AIDS in Kenya: Glimmers of Hope Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5550378/5550546" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript