In the late 1990s, HIV/AIDS continued to frighten and mystify. It lashed out at populations around the world, but it hit communities in Africa especially hard. Entire villages were wiped out; in many places, only the very young and the very old survived, with the middle carved out by a disease most people could not understand.

WiRED International just released a training module on women’s labor and delivery as part of its upcoming Health Learning Center series on maternal and child health.

On April 22, millions of people all over the world celebrated the twin events of Earth Day and March for Science Day, to be followed on April 29 by the Climate Change March. WiRED International believes that the health of our planet depends on research-based science and accessible community medical and health education.

At WiRED International, we believe in science. All of our medical and health education modules are grounded in evidence-based science. Our recommendations for vaccinations, disease prevention, diagnostics and treatments are rooted firmly in science.

WiRED International announces the launch of a training module on vector-borne diseases in its Health Learning Center. The module is part of WiRED’s Infectious Disease Series, which will be released in full this year.

Thanks to its dedicated translators, WiRED International’s Health Learning Center now offers 15 health education modules in the Armenian language on topics of pressing concern in Armenia such as diabetes, dental hygiene and quitting smoking.

2017 marks WiRED International’s 20th year of providing medical and health education to low-resource regions all over the world. WiRED has created a web page which will offer a series of stories charting its history through the years from Vukovar, Croatia, to its global operation today.

We left the International Organization for Migration (IOM) offices in Pristina, Kosovo, early on a summer morning in 2000, allowing plenty of time to reach the Skopje airport in Macedonia, 54 miles away. It was Sunday, so traffic was light.

A yellow fever outbreak in Brazil could spread to the U.S., according to a recent article in The Washington Post. Health officials fear the fast moving virus could increase as rapidly as the Zika virus — both transmitted by the same Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Two new reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) determined that every year Earth’s polluted environment accounts for 26% of deaths of children under five.