Global Health – PBS NewsHour

Global Health – PBS NewsHour episodes:

• 09.16.2014

  As epidemic escalates, can U.S. aid for Ebola be deployed quickly enough?

  How effective will new U.S. aid and military support be in fighting Ebola? Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations and Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown Law School join Judy Woodruff for a deep dive into the plan. Then special...

  
• 09.16.2014

  Obama pledges money and military personnel to nations struck by Ebola

  The United States will offer 3,000 troops and financial help to health care systems in West Africa that are overwhelmed by Ebola. President Obama announced that U.S. forces will build new treatment facilities, airlift hundreds of thousands of home health...

  
• 09.09.2014

  U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola

  The number of deaths from the worst Ebola outbreak on record has now surpassed 2,300. To combat the epidemic, the U.S. has pledged funds, research and additional medical resources. Judy Woodruff sits down with Nancy Lindborg of the U.S. Agency...

  
• 09.02.2014

  One family’s quest to unite orphaned Chinese girls with a happy home

  After reaching their fifties and raising their own children, Jenny and Richard Bowen adopted 2-year-old Maya from China after learning of poor orphanage conditions for abandoned girls. Sixteen years later, the Bowens have two adopted daughters from the same region...

  
• 09.02.2014

  Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain

  The international head of Doctors Without Borders has charged that many of the efforts to curtail the Ebola outbreak in West Africa have actually made it worse. Jeffrey Brown joins director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr....

  
• 08.28.2014

  Ebola’s spread hastens preparations for vaccine testing

  An Ebola vaccine may be ready for human testing as early as next week. Though the vaccine is in its first stage of testing with humans, it showed favorable results in an infected monkey. Gwen Ifill learns more from Dr....

  
• 08.28.2014

  WHO announces $490 million plan for fighting Ebola

  There have been 3,000 cases of Ebola virus confirmed in the current outbreak, but the World Health Organization forecasts that the total number could top 20,000 and spread to 10 additional countries. In response, the agency is rolling out a...

  
• 08.24.2014

  Ebola tensions ease in quarantined Liberia, but government mistrust lingers

  There are now more than 2,600 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola, and more than 1,400 deaths resulting from the virus. All of the cases have originated in West Africa. For the latest on the global health crisis, Drew Hinshaw...

  
• 05.06.2014

  Persistence is key to wiping out polio outbreaks in fragile nations

  Signaling a new public health emergency, the World Health Organization warns that if polio is not completely eradicated it could become endemic again. Worldwide, 74 cases of the crippling disease have been confirmed this year, with Syria, Cameroon and Pakistan...

  
• 05.05.2014

  News Wrap: UN says polio outbreak is global emergency

  In our news wrap Monday, the World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency amid outbreaks of polio across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The U.N. agency says the number of new cases last year nearly doubled to...

  
• 04.08.2014

  Unprecedented Ebola outbreak crosses borders in West Africa

  More than 100 people have died so far in the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in years, which began in Guinea before spreading to Liberia. Now health officials are investigating possible cases in Mali and Ghana. Jeffrey Brown talks...