PRI: Global Health and Development
Summary: PRI's Global Health and Development Podcast brings you compelling stories from PRI's extensive coverage on the health and well-being of the billions living in the developing world. Through in-depth reports and newsmaker interviews, this podcast will explore such topics as the state of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis worldwide; the myriad efforts to provide healthcare and other aid in the developing world; and ways to grow and deliver food to the poor.
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Podcasts:
Next year, McDonalds will be opening its first ever vegetarian-only restaurants near religious shrines in India. From PRI's The World.
Anaesthetist Rachael Craven talks about how she worked undercover in a rebel-held territory in Syria for the relief group Doctors without Borders. From PRI's The World.
Poverty and high demand for minerals are combining to create a boom in the dangerous informal mining economy -- one artisanal mining operation in the Congo employs children in horrendous conditions. From PRI's The World.
How more translation in Africa, a continent of 2,000 languages, could save lives and create wealth. From PRI's The World.
A start-up called Backpack Farm wants to tap into the East Africa agricultural market, where there are an estimated 100 million farmers, by offering an innovating farming kit. From PRI's The World.
Under a mandate, 40 percent of the US corn harvest goes to bio-fuel, but the UN says meeting the quota, during a time drought, could contribute to a global food crisis. From PRI's The World.
The US is the world's biggest corn exporter, and as harvests fall and prices rise due to drought, many of world's poor will feel the squeeze. From PRI's The World.
About a thousand sex workers held an AIDS conference in Calcutta, in part to protest the US law that restricts sex-workers from entering America. From PRI's The World.
A new study in the medical journal The Lancet found that levels of physical activity roughly track patterns of development in different countries. From PRI's The World
Peter Piot, former executive director of UNAIDS, talks about the new optimism among top HIV researchers about stemming the spread of the virus around the globe, and his career as a virus hunter. From PRI's The World.
Agnes Odhiambo, a researcher on women's rights in Africa for New York-based Human Rights Watch, talks about the terrible toll of teenage pregnancy and childbirth in Africa. From PRI's The World.
An experimental eco-farming project is improving yields, saving water and soothing tensions among refugees and locals in eastern Senegal. From PRI's The World.
The US State Department just released its list of human trafficking worst offenders -- Syria has been added to the list; Venezuela and Burma are off the list. From PRI's The World.
Supplies of phosphorus, a key element in the fertilizer used in farming, are getting low -- how this could gravely impact the the global food supply. From PRI's The World.
Chad is one of Africa's poorest nations despite vast oil wealth, including about $750 million per year in taxes and royalties from the oil giant ExxonMobil. From PRI's The World.
