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:
A global campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease is tantalizingly close to success, but the parasitic infection still plagues Southern Sudan. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter leads efforts there to wipe out the disease. From PRI's The World.
Tree planting to offset carbon in southwestern Uganda has unintentional consequences. From Living on Earth.
Tree planting to offset carbon in southwestern Uganda has unintentional consequences. From Living on Earth.
Haiti's government has unveiled an expensive reconstruction plan for the country, but there are questions over how best to spend the money. From PRI's The World.
Haiti's government has unveiled an expensive reconstruction plan for the country, but there are questions over how best to spend the money. From PRI's The World.
A new study out of Afghanistan suggests that enlisting the help of local mullahs can dramatically increase the use of birth control in rural villages. Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of maternal mortality. From PRI's The World.
A new study out of Afghanistan suggests that enlisting the help of local mullahs can dramatically increase the use of birth control in rural villages. Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of maternal mortality. From PRI's The World.
The Bantwana Initiative helps AIDS orphans in the African nation of Swaziland. Swaziland has the world's highest rate of AIDS infection, and life expectancy has fallen dramatically from 61 years to 32 years. From Here and Now.
In East Africa, there's a movement to help women farmers with a low-tech solution that could help them build a nice little nest egg: chickens. From Living on Earth.
Genetically modified food crops could boost yields substantially and cut the need for pesticides, but countries like India are rejecting them for health and environmental reasons. From PRI's The World.
Genetically modified food crops could boost yields substantially and cut the need for pesticides, but countries like India are rejecting them for health and environmental reasons. From PRI's The World.
American ideas of mental health and treatment are being exported, a new book claims, and the post-tsunami work in Sri Lanka and the marketing of anti-depressants in Japan are examples. From Here and Now.
American ideas of mental health and treatment are being exported, a new book claims, and the post-tsunami work in Sri Lanka and the marketing of anti-depressants in Japan are examples. From Here and Now.
Some of the problems that have slowed the distribution of aid in Haiti have eased, but many survivors are still struggling to find food and shelter and the security situation remains volatile. From PRI's The World.
Some of the problems that have slowed the distribution of aid in Haiti have eased, but many survivors are still struggling to find food and shelter and the security situation remains volatile. From PRI's The World.
