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We've lost the battle against dengue, is Zika next?
Look at the chart below and one can easily reach a conclusion — the world has lost the battle against dengue, a vector-borne disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti, the same mosquito that spreads the...
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Is the death of a Japanese tourist at Trinidad's Carnival a symptom of a...
Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is celebrated with colorful, feathered, sequined costumes. Last week the capital city's mayor said it was these costumes, an international symbol of the festival, that...
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Improving water sources, sanitation facilities and poverty alleviation may...
Since the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil, many have conveniently blamed inadequate water supplies and poor sanitation facilities especially in poor and rural areas as the major factors behind the...
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16 women around the world who are standing up to violence
Whatever their cause, cycles of violence require tenacity, courage and understanding to break.And violence takes many forms: pernicious abuses behind closed doors, hidden by family members in the name...
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The budget for the Rio Olympics is 16 times higher than the budget to combat...
If you were Brazil's president, how would you choose to allocate the nation's limited resources — fighting the Zika virus or organizing the Rio 2016 Olympic games?The Brazilian government is losing its...
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These mosquitoes could be a weapon against Zika
There’s a room at the University of São Paulo with between 10,000 and 15,000 mosquitoes in it. If you’re very quiet, you can hear them buzzing.This is where mosquito researcher Margareth Capurro is...
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These Iranian entrepreneurs are building a future out of wood
Not so long ago, 26-year-old Negin Nasiri longed to get out of Iran. She put together a plan and it came very close to working. Negin got accepted to a graduate program at California State University,...
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How Brazil's favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly
One evening last March, infectious disease specialist Dr. Carlos Brito picked up his phone and sent a message to a group of his colleagues. He’d been seeing patients with a rash, swollen joints and a...
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Could the Pill save the polar bear?
Conservationists tend to spend their time worrying about protecting forests, catching poachers or keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. But wouldn't it be simpler to deal with the root cause:...
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This pop star calling out an aggressor is highlighting a vast gender violence...
First he took off his guitar. Then he walked offstage and yelled at a man.That audience member had been harassing a woman in the crowd.The concert interruption by Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro...
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'We have a child with microcephaly, and we're happy'
Germana Soares doesn't want pity.When I met her last week at a small rehabilitation clinic in Recife, Brazil, she was bouncing her three-month-old son Guilherme on her lap and pinching the cheeks of...
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Putting a face to a taboo word in Ireland: abortion
In Ireland, it’s not only illegal to have an abortion in cases of rape, incest and fatal fetal abnormalities, it’s unconstitutional.This despite Ireland surprising people around the world in 2015 by...
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Why Kosovo is running out of excuses to ignore street harassment
Two summers ago, I was walking down a side street in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, and a man asked me for the time.He looked like he was around my age, in his late 20s, with glasses and a skinny frame....
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This Brazilian artist's work doesn't last, it melts. And that's her point.
Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo is best known for big public art pieces. She casts hundreds of small human figures from ice and puts them in city squares all over the world, where they quickly melt. Her...
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Brazil's microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
Across Women's Lives photographer Anne Bailey spent time last week at the Fundação Altino Ventura rehabilitation clinic in Recife, Brazil, where she took portraits of the parents of babies with...
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A 'tsunami of disease' slams Brazil's health system
Eight out of 10 patients who walk into Ipojuca’s hospital have a rash, a fever and terrible pain, says nurse Vanessa DiBrito Sales. They’ve all been bitten by the wrong mosquito, and they’re all...
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'Little Teresa' helps São Paulo women fight drought and male domination —...
Many of the alleys in São Paulo’s favelas have trash or weeds in them, the things you’d expect in alleys. But one in Sao Mateus, on the outskirts of the city, also has something you might not expect —...
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Young women in Kosovo are writing code to fight harrassment
Street harassment is a sad reality for women across the world, but in Kosovo it can get particularly vulgar, and mostly goes unreported. But a forthcoming mobile app may help change that. Ec Shlirë,...
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Women lead the fight to protect Amazonia from the impacts of a huge dam
After a quarter-century of plans and protests and construction and more protests, the Belo Monte dam complex on a tributary of the Amazon River in north-central Brazil will start generating power next...
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How you can help: Groups doing important work for women, their communities...
For the past two weeks, our Across Women's Lives team has been in Brazil reporting on women, water and the future of the environment.Our Her Planet series brought us into the homes of women like...
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