Mental health workers are trying to help survivors cope with their feelings of distress, loss and fear.

Gonorrhea may soon become untreatable, due in large part to the misuse of the antibiotics currently used against the sexually transmitted disease, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.

As the rainy season approaches, relief workers in Haiti continue to move displaced people from tent cities into more substantial housing. Judy Woodruff talks to KQED reporter Dave Iverson about the continuing relief efforts, 100 days after the disaster.

The city of Juarez, Mexico, across the border and a short drive from El Paso, has become known as Mexico's "murder capital," at the epicenter of drug violence that has plagued the country and escalated since 2008.

In Ethiopia, farms backed by foreign investors are growing with abundance, while native farmers subsist on food aid. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports about the unlikely abundance in a land known for famine.

The number of women dying from childbirth has dropped dramatically -- by about 35 percent -- around the world since 1980, according to a new study released Monday by the Lancet.

Poverty rarely gets more degrading than when people are forced to drink from the same muddy ponds as livestock and wild animals. Yet this was a common scene on my most recent visit to Southern Sudan and rural Ethiopia.

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Sudan about a painful and debilitating parasite called Guinea worm and efforts by health workers and the Carter Center to eradicate it.

Ray Suarez writes about spending time in Peru with a small and fascinating set of individuals who have been HIV-positive for years, and never get sick.

Bob Hoff has been HIV positive for more than 25 years but has no viral load and has never taken medication. He is now participating in several studies looking at elite controllers.

In the final report in his series about health issues in Peru, Ray Suarez reports on the country's war on AIDS through research on rare patients whose bodies can effectively suppress the virus.

Bob Hoff has been HIV positive for more than 25 years but has no viral load and has never taken medication. He is now participating in several studies looking at elite controllers.

During Oscar Ccencho Huamani's three-year battle with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, he was forced to quit his job because he was too weak to work. Like so many other recovered TB patients living in Peru, he needed an income desperately to buy food and stay healthy.

As part of his continuing series on Peru, Ray Suarez reports on how government strategies to reduce deaths from childbirth among indigenous women who live far from health services could also help women in other Latin American countries.

In the first part of a series on Peru, Ray Suarez reports on a growing and business friendly environment in a country rebounding from economic instability and deep debt just twenty years ago.

Carlos Monge, Latin America coordinator for the Revenue Watch Institute, warns that economic inequality in Peru can lead to destabilization.

Francisco Sagasti, a senior associate at a think-tank in Lima, discusses the impact Peru's economic gains are having inside the country.

Imagine entering the final weeks of pregnancy knowing if there were problems in labor and childbirth, you were hours, sometimes days, from the nearest medical help. Ray Suarez writes about his experience reporting on maternal mortality in Peru. Watch the NewsHour tonight for his full report.

Cervical cancer is one of the main causes of death for women in Peru, where screening for the disease is sporadic. Now, health workers are considering low-tech and low-cost options that could make a difference in poor rural areas.

Ray Suarez recently traveled to Peru for a series of reports that will examine the country's health issues as well its economy -- including its evolution from a widely erratic marketplace to a more stable economy that encourages private investment and new trade partnerships.