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A girl washes her hands at a spigot at the entrance of her parents' house in Pikine, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, on March 9, 2020.

What the US can learn from West Africa to slow the spread of coronavirus

COVID-19

Contact tracing, or meticulously tracing individuals exposed to illness, has been key to combating outbreaks of Ebola, cholera and tuberculosis throughout the world. Dr. Sheila Davis of the nonprofit Partners in Health explains what the US can learn from those crises.

An ambulance transporting an Ebola patient drives to the entrance of a treatment centre outside Freetown, Sierra Leone.

An American aid worker with Ebola receives speedy care, while a Sierra Leonean colleague is ‘left behind’

Health
Health workers wearing protective clothing disinfect themselves after an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms was found at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 17, 2014.

This American doctor says racism is to blame for the slow response to the Ebola outbreak

Health
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.

Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa

Health
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.

Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa

Health

Cancer’s New Battleground: In Haiti, breast cancer presents stark choices

Health & Medicine

Among developing nations, cancer is an increasingly prevalent cause of death. It’s largely overtaken other diseases as the leading cause of death in those countries — mostly because there’s little or no access to affordable prevention and treatment.

Haiti after four major storms

Development & Education

Doctor says Haiti’s vulnerability to storms are really socially created, and the recent disasters there are “un-natural disasters.”

Clinic in Haiti

Part II: Pink Ribbons to Haiti

Health & Medicine

Haitian women know little about breast cancer and those who contract it rarely receive treatment. An American charity and its local partners are trying to change that. But it’s not easy providing cancer care in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

Tracking Down Haiti’s First Cholera Case

Global Politics

Doctors think they may have identified the first Haitian who caught cholera and triggered the epidemic that swept the island after an earthquake struck there two years ago this week.

The World

Getting the money where it’s needed most in Haiti

Conflict & Justice

Last month, the international community came together and pledged over $9 billion to the earthquake crippled country of Haiti. Now the question is, how should the money be used?