Feature Stories

Newborn Survival: A Snapshot of Progress Since 2005

Each year at least 4 million newborn babies die--an unacceptably high number given that low-cost solutions exist to save these lives.

Clearing the Smog: Fighting Air Pollution in Mexico City, Mexico, and São Paulo, Brazil

Lidia Reyes spent much of 2006 in the hospital. Her children, ages 7, 13, and 17, suffered several asthma attacks during the year, and needed to be hospitalized between five and eight days each time.

Bhutan: When Environment Drives Public Health Policies

From its cold, high Himalayan valleys to the belt of semitropical terrain facing the tea plantations of northeastern India, the isolated, landlocked kingdom of Bhutan presents public health officials with environmental challenges every day.

Disease Control Priorities: Essential Surgical Services in Africa

Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition, shows that surgical services provided in low-cost district hospitals in resource-constrained countries are highly cost-effective.

Efforts to Write Tobacco Control Laws Meet Resistance in Kenya

Lucy Achieng is lucky to be alive after she quit smoking 14 years ago. Achieng, a 46-year-old mother of three and a manager at a local company in Nairobi, says there is nothing glamorous about smoking.

DCPP Finds an Eager Audience in Journalists: Links to Information and Resources Facilitates Evidence-Based Reporting

The news media around the world play two important roles?educator and watchdog. With that in mind, the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) set out to ensure dissemination of its ?best health buys? to the media.

In His Own Words: The Caribbean Community Uses Evidence to Influence Policy

One of the basic propositions of the Disease Control Priorities Project is that the articulation of evidence from its major products can influence policymakers to make the correct decisions.

Snuffing Out Tobacco-Related Disease

A crowd of teenagers stands laughing in the sunshine outside their high school in Zagreb, Croatia. As they hurry back inside their gimnazija for class, many of the students snuff out cigarettes on the paving stones.

The DCPP Web Site: A Major Asset for Dissemination

In just 12 months, Web users in over 150 countries - 83 percent from developing countries - have visited the Disease Control Priorities Project Web site, www.dcp2.org, logging in nearly 535,000 times.

Will Africa Ever Get Rid of Malaria?

At the Nyanza district hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, the children's ward is always full. Doctors in charge deal solely with malaria cases. On that particular day in March, something special has happened: No child has died.

Saving 150 million lives: the case for global tobacco control

A pandemic is brewing in the developing world. We know the symptoms. We know the cause. We even know something about prevention. Yet this global killer is ripping through the world's poorer countries largely unchecked.

Catching their breath: Communities take on tuberculosis in Latin America

The odds of staying healthy were against 27-year-old Richard Huaricacha after his brother, Angel, contracted tuberculosis (TB), probably during a visit to a crowded public hospital in Lima, Peru.