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Joanne Silberner

Global mental health issues woefully overlooked

Health & Medicine

The United Nations has made it a goal to improve maternal and child health, but mental health issues around the world remain woefully overlooked.

Cancer’s New Battleground: Infectious diseases a leading cancer cause

Health & Medicine

Cancer’s New Battleground: In India, a simple test of vinegar makes all the difference

Health & Medicine

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

Health & Medicine

Cancer’s New Battleground: In Uganda, Jackson Orem fighting to establish cancer care

Health & Medicine
A young Burkitt's lymphoma patient.

Part IV: The Infectious Connection

Health & Medicine

Cancer can be triggered by infectious diseases, especially in impoverished parts of the world. Scientists in the US and Africa are working to unravel how viruses and bacteria cause malignancies.

The World

Prioritizing Cancer

Health & Medicine

Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, criticizes governments and foundations for overlooking cancer as an important issue in the developing world. In an interview with reporter Joanne Silberner, Horton urges political leaders to take up the cause.

Cancer’s Global Reach

Cancer kills more people in low- and middle-income countries than AIDS, malaria, and TB combined, but it remains a disproportionately underfunded disease. In this series, veteran health journalist Joanne Silberner examines cancer’s toll in the developing world.

Mental Health Not Getting Enough Attention From UN

Global Politics

Mental health advocates are upset that the UN is not focusing attention on mental health.

Ugandans with Mental Illness Learn to Fit In

Arts, Culture & Media

In developing countries, even when people with mental illness receive medical treatment, they often have trouble fitting in. A program in Uganda aims to change that by training people with mental illness to earn a livelihood. Joanne Silberner reports.