Health Care

Cuba helps fight Ebola

In a stellar example of solidarity with the people of West Africa, socialist Cuba will provide health care workers to…

September 21, 2014

Crisis del Ébola: Países ricos deben responder

En Liberia, donde muchas personas han muerto por el virus del Ébola, enfermeras y médicos se declararon en huelga el…

September 16, 2014

Ebola crisis: Rich countries must respond

In Liberia, where many people have been killed by the Ebola virus, nurses and physicians went on strike on Sept.…

September 9, 2014

Capitalism increases Ebola dangers

Aug. 7 — Ebola was identified 40 years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then called Zaire. Two…

August 9, 2014

During AIDS conference, activists confront drug firms, politicians

Washington, D.C. - Thousands of HIV-positive people and activists from all over the globe came to the International AIDS Conference…

August 3, 2012

Overdose deaths? Most come from prescription painkillers

Possession of street drugs, even small amounts of marijuana, lands millions of people in prison, sometimes for life, especially if…

July 25, 2012