Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Turning a corner, after decades of health warnings, cigarette sales have fallen sharply in the United States and Europe, but multinational tobacco corporations are targeting huge new markets in the developing world, including countries in Asia. In a report produced with Global Health Frontiers, Hari Sreenivasan explains that in the Philippines, anti-smoking activists are now pushing back. ACTIVISTS: We want the pictures now! Pictures save lives! H...
Oct 14, 2016•6 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio GWEN IFILL: Next: As we have seen with recent pandemics, emerging diseases like Zika and Ebola can cross continents and oceans with uncontrolled speed. Scientists are identifying areas where new infectious diseases are most likely to emerge, where there are high risks of animal viruses passing to humans. One of those areas is Southern China. Hari Sreenivasan brings us this report, which was produced in collaboration with Global Health Frontiers. DR. PETER DASZAK...
Aug 11, 2016•7 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF : U.S. health officials put out new guidance today about the Zika virus. For the first time, they recommended that men who have traveled to an area with Zika should use condoms if they have sex with a pregnant woman for the entire duration of the pregnancy. The CDC also says those men may want to consider abstaining from sex with women who are trying to get pregnant. While the disease is overwhelmingly spread by mosquitoes, questions about three po...
Feb 05, 2016•6 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio RELATED LINKS Cuba pledges 165 healthcare workers to combat Ebola outbreak U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain JUDY WOODRUFF: Let’s dive deeper now into the president’s plan to ramp up the response to the Ebola outbreak and to try preventing a humanitarian catastrophe. It comes amid prior criticism of the administration, along with the WHO and of other countries, for not doing more a...
Sep 16, 2014•10 min
We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the Audio RELATED LINKS Cuba pledges 165 healthcare workers to combat Ebola outbreak U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain JUDY WOODRUFF: The United States military is joining the fight to stop the spread of Ebola in Africa. President Obama laid out a plan today to send 3,000 troops, amid increasingly dire forecasts of the epidemic’s potential to grow eve...
Sep 16, 2014•4 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio RELATED LINKS Third U.S. doctor with Ebola lands in Nebraska Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain The world is ‘losing the battle’ to contain Ebola, health official warns JUDY WOODRUFF: In West Africa, doctors are fighting the world’s most deadly Ebola outbreak with makeshift hospitals, a handful of vehicles and a few brave volunteer health workers. Meanwhile, terrified villagers and city-dwellers alike can only watch helplessly as their loved ones succumb to...
Sep 09, 2014•10 min
We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog conceded that its progress investigating Iran’s nuclear program has hit a wall. The latest confidential report by the International Atomic Energy Agency was obtained by several news media outlets. It said the IAEA had satellite imagery showing ongoing construction activity a Parchin military base, a suspected nuclear site. It also revealed that Tehran had only implemented three o...
Sep 06, 2014•5 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio RELATED LINKS Rwanda’s government moves to close orphanages Meet Agnes: orphan, student, survivor of sexual violence in Sierra Leone Detention of Americans in Haiti renews adoption concerns JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, one woman’s efforts to transform the way orphans are cared for in China. “NewsHour” correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports as part of his Agents for Change series. A version of Fred’s story aired on the PBS program “Religion & Ethics News...
Sep 02, 2014•10 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio RELATED LINKS A third American reportedly infected with Ebola How did the West Africa Ebola epidemic get out of control so fast? Ebola outbreak started with funeral in Guinea, report finds JEFFREY BROWN: The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control just returned from surveying the situation in West Africa. And in a press conference this afternoon, he too added strong words and warnings. Dr. Thomas Frieden joins us now from Atlanta. And, Dr. Frieden, ther...
Sep 02, 2014•7 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio RELATED LINKS CDC director: ‘Ebola will get worse before it gets better’ American doctor speaks out about his Ebola recovery Doctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need more people in the fieldDoctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need more people in the field GWEN IFILL: Adding to the difficulty, a different strain of Ebola has appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, causing 13 deaths so far. Here at home, the National Institutes of Health announced toda...
Aug 28, 2014•6 min
We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the Audio RELATED LINKS CDC director: ‘Ebola will get worse before it gets better’ American doctor speaks out about his Ebola recovery Doctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need more people in the field GWEN IFILL: There were new numbers and a bleak projection today on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. At the same time, it appears human trials will begin for a possible vaccine as soon as next week. The ominous forecast came from ...
Aug 28, 2014•3 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN : As we reported yesterday there are now more than 2600 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola and more than 1400 deaths resulting from the virus. All of the cases had originated from West Africa. For the latest on the health crisis we are joined via Skype from Accra, Ghana by Drew Hinshaw of The Wall Street Journal. So earlier this week we saw some disturbing images out of Liberia, a neighborhood there, West Point, had been quarantined and peopl...
Aug 24, 2014•4 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio GWEN IFILL: Public health officials around the world are sounding the alarm this week about the return of polio. It’s a big shift from just two years ago, when some experts thought they were on the verge of eradicating the disease. RELATED LINKS Polio vaccine campaign faces extemist opposition, public apathy in Pakistan Will polio outbreak inspire international community to do more about Syria? Program on polio eradication suspended in Pakistan after 9 aid worke...
May 06, 2014•9 min
We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the Audio GWEN IFILL: Fresh fighting erupted in Ukraine today in a key city seized by separatists who want to join Russia. That followed a weekend of violent confrontations. We have a report from James Mates of Independent Television News. JAMES MATES, ITN: The picture is unclear, the battlefield spread across the suburbs of the separatist stronghold of Slavyansk. But these captured armored personnel carriers are believed to be ret...
May 05, 2014•5 min
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Several countries in West Africa are now coping with the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in years. The World Health Organization describes it as one of the most challenging episodes of the disease it’s ever faced. More than 100 people have died so far. RELATED LINKS News Wrap: Guinean authorities say Ebola outbreak has grown into ‘unprecedented epidemic’ World Food Programme faces ‘highly unusual’ quadruple food emergency Health workers push to ...
Apr 08, 2014•7 min
