Nurith Aizenman

A mother feeds her new baby at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. About 1 in 7 women in South Sudan die from causes related to pregnancy.

How Far Has The Health Of Moms Come Since 1995?

Nurith Aizenman

The rate of women worldwide who die in childbirth has dropped by more than 40 percent over the past two decades. But does this rosy global health statistic overstate the extent of change?

Anne Marie Goetz: "I wish we could bottle the spirit of the [Beijing] meeting."

The View From A Muddy Field In China: Women's Rights, In 1995 And Now

Nurith Aizenman

Anne Marie Goetz was one of 47,000 who attended the landmark Beijing conference. Twenty years later, she thinks it might be risky to hold an event like that today.

During an October visit to Liberia, USAID head Rajiv Shah held a joint press conference with the country's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

From Haiti's Earthquake To Ebola, He Had 5 Busy Years At USAID

Nurith Aizenman

It's the last day on the job for Rajiv Shah, who at age 36 became the youngest-ever head of USAID. A key figure in the U.S. Ebola response, Shah has his critics, but he's proud of his record.

Last year Dr. Kwan Kew Lai volunteered at an Ebola treatment center run by International Medical Corps in Bong County, Liberia.

Sneak Peek At The Ebola Diaries: A Doctor Opens Her Heart, Journal

Nurith Aizenman

For six weeks, an American doctor blogged almost every day while volunteering at an Ebola treatment center. Her writings offer a rare look into a world we've only gotten glimpses of.

Nick van Praag of Ground Truth meets with locals of Pakistan's Sindh Province in 2013 to see if they're satisfied with efforts to help them recover from previous floods and prevent damage from any future ones.

Billions Go To Victims Of Disaster And Disease. Does It Really Help?

Nurith Aizenman

Ground Truth is a new group with a simple yet revolutionary way of figuring out if disaster relief works: Ask the victims.

The construction of a 300-bed Ebola treatment unit is underway in front of the former Ministry of Defense building in Monrovia, Liberia's capital.

The U.S. Ebola Hospitals In Liberia Are Going Up ... Slowly

Nurith Aizenman

Last month, the U.S. promised to build treatment centers for health care workers and for the general public. Our photo gallery checks in on the progress thus far.

Warning: The following images contain graphic content.

An Ebola Quarantine Triggers A Riot In A Liberian Slum

Nurith Aizenman

Gunshots rang out during a riot in West Point, one of the country's poorest communities. Residents were angry after learning that no one could leave or enter the neighborhood for at least 21 days.

A worker helps to build an addition onto an Ebola holding center in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone.

World's Slow Response To Ebola Leaves Sierra Leone Villages Scrambling

Nurith Aizenman

With the number of new infections reaching a record high, there's no time to wait for international aid to build perfect Ebola treatment centers. So village leaders are making do with what they have.

Baby Sesay, 45, is a traditional healer. She treated a child who later died, apparently of Ebola. Now she is sick and being held in a facility for possible cases. As this photo was taken her body seized up and she nearly collapsed.

A Deadly Chain: Tracing Ebola In A Sierra Leone Village

Nurith Aizenman

Why is Sierra Leone reporting an uptick in Ebola cases while Liberia's outbreak is slowing? The chain of events in one village points up the obstacles that the country is facing.

Surveillance team member Osman Sow talks with Kadiatu, who is eight months pregnant and suspected of having Ebola. Survey teams canvas the community every day to assess sick people and dispatch burial teams to collect the dead.

Ebola Survey Teams Take A Grim Census In Sierra Leone

Nurith Aizenman

As Ebola surges in the east African country, the capital city sends surveillance teams into the neighborhoods to record who might be sick with the virus — or already dead.