New technology has the potential to revolutionize the speedy and accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, one of the deadliest public health threats which claims about six million lives each year.

The waters have receded and the debris has been cleared, but U.S.-based global NGO Project HOPE is still in Japan a year after the tsunami disaster transfixed a horrified world.

A stellar team, including West Africa-born doctors is heading to Liberia, taking medical expertise honed in top U.S. medical schools to an impoverished nation plagued by widespread disease, high mortality rates and rudimentary healthcare.

Project HOPE delivered urgently-needed insulin valued at $2 million to Tajikistan after supplies of the medicine to treat diabetics had run out in the former Soviet Republic.

On World Cancer Day, global NGO Project HOPE says a growing corps of medical social workers in China is helping families deal with traumatic stress caused by the rising trend of childhood cancer in China.

Global NGO Project HOPE has launched an international residency scholarship that will allow promising medical visionaries from four of North Carolina’s medical schools to gain valuable oversees experience in global health.

Project HOPE is highlighting the first free, comprehensive rehab (and prosthetic) facility in post-earthquake Haiti as a symbol of solidarity and life-changing hope for the people of Haiti, marking the second anniversary of the deadly quake.

Global NGO Project HOPE says health education has been the driving force in rebuilding healthy and stable lives for women and children in post-tsunami Indonesia, and in helping to reconstruct a shattered health care system, as the country remembers the disaster that washed over the region seven years ago on December 26.

Global NGO Project HOPE announced a new initiative on World AIDS Day to support AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in Mozambique and to help families and communities caring for thousands of children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS.

To mark World Diabetes Day, global NGO Project HOPE is calling for a new emphasis on health education to combat the staggering toll inflicted by the disease across the developing world, where millions have diabetes and millions more are not properly diagnosed storing up a silent future medical crisis.

Project HOPE is making sure the fight against pneumonia reaches even the most remote areas of Nicaragua and Honduras where health workers deliver vaccines against pneumococcal disease, a major cause of pneumonia.

Project HOPE delivered medicines and medical supplies valued at more than $35 million to Tajikistan, the second humanitarian airlift in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State this year to the former Soviet Republic.