Global Health Rapid Malaria Tests Work, but With Unexpected Drawbacks Tests that take only 15 minutes mean fewer people needlessly get malaria drugs, but many instead get antibiotics they don’t need, a study finds. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Fixes Sending Health to Rural Ghana via Traveling Medics In a country where 45 percent of the people live miles from clinics, Ghana’s government sends health workers to them to deliver medical care. By ANDREW GREEN
Global Health Only Six Nations Have Evaluated Readiness for Global Pandemic A World Bank-sponsored study found that wealthy countries Finland, Saudi Arabia and the United States and poor nations Eritrea, Pakistan and Tanzania had gone through assessments. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
U.N. Suspending Plan for Cholera Vaccination in Yemen United Nations officials said a cholera vaccination campaign no longer made sense in Yemen because the war would make the effort difficult. By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and RICK GLADSTONE
Cholera Spreads as War and Poverty Batter Yemen About 1,600 people have died because of a cholera outbreak in Yemen, where the bacterial infection has spread to 21 of the country’s 22 provinces. By SHUAIB ALMOSAWA and NOUR YOUSSEF
Editorial A Children’s Health Crisis Officials Overlook: Shootings Thanks to the gun lobby, federal law prohibits research into the third leading cause of death for young people: firearms. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Polio Paralyzes 17 Children in Syria, W.H.O. Says The outbreak of the crippling disease — the second so far in Syria’s six-year-old war — was described by the World Health Organization as “very serious.” By RICK GLADSTONE
Mishandled Measles Vaccine Kills 15 Children in South Sudan Untrained, unqualified administrators of measles vaccines in a remote village of the war-torn country injected dozens of children with contaminated material. By JACEY FORTIN
Foreign Correspondents as They Live and Breathe While we might check the weather every morning, these reporters check the Air Quality Index. By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW
Editorial W.H.O.’s Identity Crisis Global health may depend on an African malaria expert elected to lead the agency as it tries to recover from missteps and funding shortfalls. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
United Nations Memo Attacks on Health Workers in War Zones Continue, Despite U.N. Resolution A Security Council resolution last year that demanded protection for health workers has made no difference. The W.H.O. tallied 302 such attacks in 2016. By SOMINI SENGUPTA
W.H.O. Elects Ethiopia’s Tedros as First Director General From Africa Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia was chosen after a closed session of world health ministers. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
Op-Ed Contributors Health Leaders Must Focus on the Threats From Factory Farms Producing meat on an industrial scale has had damaging health and environmental consequences. By SCOTT WEATHERS, SOPHIE HERMANNS and MARK BITTMAN
Suspected Cases of Ebola Rise to 29 in Democratic Republic of Congo Aid workers are trying to reach a remote part of the country, where there have been three deaths from the virus. By DENISE GRADY
Letter A Qualified Candidate for Head of the W.H.O. The former head of the C.D.C. writes that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is qualified to be director general of the World Health Organization.
Op-Ed Contributor The Looming Threat of Yellow Fever An outbreak in Brazil of the deadly disease should raise an alarm in the United States and the rest of the world. By SETH BERKLEY
TimesVideo Politics and Plagues What do the C.I.A. and Nigerian imams have to do with the fight to end polio? Retro Report examines how the worlds of politics and public health can collide. By RETRO REPORT
Global Health Candidate to Lead the W.H.O. Accused of Covering Up Epidemics As Ethiopia’s health minister, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ignored cholera outbreaks, a global health expert and adviser to a rival candidate charges. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo, With at Least 3 Dead The W.H.O. said the new cases were not related to previous outbreaks in Democratic Republic of Congo, or the epidemic that tore through West Africa in 2014.
Cholera Compounds Suffering in a Yemen Torn by War Aid groups warn of alarming increases in the number cholera cases afflicting Yemen, where the health system has been rendered dysfunctional by the fighting. By RICK GLADSTONE
Global Health Rapid Malaria Tests Work, but With Unexpected Drawbacks Tests that take only 15 minutes mean fewer people needlessly get malaria drugs, but many instead get antibiotics they don’t need, a study finds. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Fixes Sending Health to Rural Ghana via Traveling Medics In a country where 45 percent of the people live miles from clinics, Ghana’s government sends health workers to them to deliver medical care. By ANDREW GREEN
Global Health Only Six Nations Have Evaluated Readiness for Global Pandemic A World Bank-sponsored study found that wealthy countries Finland, Saudi Arabia and the United States and poor nations Eritrea, Pakistan and Tanzania had gone through assessments. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
U.N. Suspending Plan for Cholera Vaccination in Yemen United Nations officials said a cholera vaccination campaign no longer made sense in Yemen because the war would make the effort difficult. By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and RICK GLADSTONE
Cholera Spreads as War and Poverty Batter Yemen About 1,600 people have died because of a cholera outbreak in Yemen, where the bacterial infection has spread to 21 of the country’s 22 provinces. By SHUAIB ALMOSAWA and NOUR YOUSSEF
Editorial A Children’s Health Crisis Officials Overlook: Shootings Thanks to the gun lobby, federal law prohibits research into the third leading cause of death for young people: firearms. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Polio Paralyzes 17 Children in Syria, W.H.O. Says The outbreak of the crippling disease — the second so far in Syria’s six-year-old war — was described by the World Health Organization as “very serious.” By RICK GLADSTONE
Mishandled Measles Vaccine Kills 15 Children in South Sudan Untrained, unqualified administrators of measles vaccines in a remote village of the war-torn country injected dozens of children with contaminated material. By JACEY FORTIN
Foreign Correspondents as They Live and Breathe While we might check the weather every morning, these reporters check the Air Quality Index. By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW
Editorial W.H.O.’s Identity Crisis Global health may depend on an African malaria expert elected to lead the agency as it tries to recover from missteps and funding shortfalls. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
United Nations Memo Attacks on Health Workers in War Zones Continue, Despite U.N. Resolution A Security Council resolution last year that demanded protection for health workers has made no difference. The W.H.O. tallied 302 such attacks in 2016. By SOMINI SENGUPTA
W.H.O. Elects Ethiopia’s Tedros as First Director General From Africa Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia was chosen after a closed session of world health ministers. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
Op-Ed Contributors Health Leaders Must Focus on the Threats From Factory Farms Producing meat on an industrial scale has had damaging health and environmental consequences. By SCOTT WEATHERS, SOPHIE HERMANNS and MARK BITTMAN
Suspected Cases of Ebola Rise to 29 in Democratic Republic of Congo Aid workers are trying to reach a remote part of the country, where there have been three deaths from the virus. By DENISE GRADY
Letter A Qualified Candidate for Head of the W.H.O. The former head of the C.D.C. writes that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is qualified to be director general of the World Health Organization.
Op-Ed Contributor The Looming Threat of Yellow Fever An outbreak in Brazil of the deadly disease should raise an alarm in the United States and the rest of the world. By SETH BERKLEY
TimesVideo Politics and Plagues What do the C.I.A. and Nigerian imams have to do with the fight to end polio? Retro Report examines how the worlds of politics and public health can collide. By RETRO REPORT
Global Health Candidate to Lead the W.H.O. Accused of Covering Up Epidemics As Ethiopia’s health minister, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ignored cholera outbreaks, a global health expert and adviser to a rival candidate charges. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo, With at Least 3 Dead The W.H.O. said the new cases were not related to previous outbreaks in Democratic Republic of Congo, or the epidemic that tore through West Africa in 2014.
Cholera Compounds Suffering in a Yemen Torn by War Aid groups warn of alarming increases in the number cholera cases afflicting Yemen, where the health system has been rendered dysfunctional by the fighting. By RICK GLADSTONE
