Mostly it's that there isn't much of it, Stefanie Friedhoff writes in the Spring Nieman Reports: "Between 2001 and 2011, foreign health aid to developing nations quadrupled from $7.6 billion to over $28 billion. During the same period, 18 newspapers and two newspaper chains in the United States closed all their foreign bureaus." Other problems: Lack of training, scarce "breaking news," and the sheer complexity of many global health issues.
