An African Breadbasket?
Calestous Juma sees agricultural innovation as a catalyst to promote development.
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Taking Smoking Seriously
View ads from Massachusetts and Armenia designed to scare smokers into quitting.
2.9.11
Business Curriculum Changes
Beyond case-method classes at Harvard Business School
1.25.11
Models—and Mud—in Amazonia
Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.
12.16.10
Kermit Roosevelt
Brief life of a Harvard conspirator: 1916-2000
12.16.10
Who Is Poor?
A multidimensional poverty index, based on the ideas of Amartya Sen, reveals a different map of the world’s poor.
12.16.10
Complicated Choices: Preventing HIV's Spread
Can an HIV-infected person safely have a child with an uninfected partner? Harvard scholars highlight a new approach.
9.9.10
Slide Show: Around Africa
A reporter’s notebook from travels in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya
8.24.10
The Social Epidemic
Harvard professors and students take aim at the social and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV.
8.19.10
The Politics of Paying for HIV Care
In agreeing to help administer PEPFAR (President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Harvard chose in part to step outside its traditional missions of training and research. But now that funding may be waning.
8.19.10
Healing the Whole Patient
From traditional healing to modern medicine, a multifaceted approach to HIV care in South Africa. With audio
8.19.10
Cultural Education
Harvard students helps a theater troupe in Uganda teach about HIV.
8.19.10
Subtle Improvements
Seemingly small changes at a Durban hospital have major effects on patient care.
8.19.10
The Choice to Bear Children
Rethinking the conventional wisdom that HIV-positive adults should forgo having children
8.19.10
Life, on the Soccer Field
South African teens learn about leadership and health through their country’s most popular sport.