Marc Silver
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Translation: Global Health and Development is not an abbrevioation-free zone. Hope this helps you make sense of the alphabet soup. -
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Women are afraid their husbands will walk out. They think, I'll die anyway, so what's the point of seeing a doctor. Or there may be no treatment within reach. -
A version of the word sustainable appears at least 75 times in the sustainable development goals the U.N. will endorse this weekend. We asked some analysts to tell us what, exactly, it means. -
A boy loses his father. A family loses its livelihood. The boy runs drugs and picks pockets so his siblings can eat. He is convinced he will die. And then ... he takes a yoga class.
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It's Cameroon, closely trailed by Vietnam and India. Sugary fizzy drinks are making inroads in the developing world. -
That's another way of referring to gynecological cancers, which strike more than 1 million women a year — and are on the rise in the developing world. -
Young people in seven developing countries were interviewed about past sexual violence. On average, more than 1 in 4 girls and more than 1 in 10 boys reported abuse.
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A proposal calls for countries to reduce the death rate among 50-to-69-year-olds from diseases like cancer and stroke. So are 70-year-olds out of luck? -
On May 9 — 42 days after the last reported case — the World Health Organization will announce that the epidemic has ended in the West African nation. Its citizens are proud, sad and a bit leery.
