One woman’s mission: bringing care to women in a country whose medical facilities, already scarce, were destroyed by years of civil war. […]
Tag: Global Health
Correcting Clubfoot
Fred de Sam Lazaro has a report from India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, on a condition called club foot. […]
Cervical Cancer Screening
A story on one effort to prevent a disease that afflicts about 500,000 women across the world every year, but has the most deadly outcomes in India. […]
Breaking the Taboo
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has the story of one man who has made it his mission to bring affordable hygiene products to women in India. […]
A ‘Brilliant’ Life
Larry Brilliant jokes that he doesn’t live up to his last name, but he has lived a remarkable life, from his early days in the San Francisco hippie scene, to his work as one of the world’s leading disease fighters who helped eradicate smallpox. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro sits down with Brilliant to look back at his career and current work identifying today’s global threats. […]
Fighting to Breathe
Delhi now outranks Beijing as the world’s most polluted city. PBS Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports […]
Guiding Liberian girls toward school
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro meets an American woman who has made her home in Liberia, started her own school and now provides education and scholarships for girls. […]