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This report provides an analysis of social determinants of health and offers concrete examples of actions that have improved health and health equity in different countries.
Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organisation commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal...
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria requires another $7-billion to $8-billion to reach its funding goals for 2008, the fund's executive director, Michel Kazatchkine, said...
Many Africans are getting substandard malaria drugs, with more than a third of the pills tested failing quality tests, according to a report published on Tuesday.
Tests of 195 different packs of...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a new campaign on World Malaria Day on Friday, calling on the world to ensure that all of Africa has access to basic malaria control measures by the end...
As many as 300,000 people may have died in the five-year conflict in Darfur, a dramatic increase over earlier estimates of 200,000, a top U.N. official said on Tuesday.
Sudan's U.N....
The rate of tuberculosis incidence fell slightly worldwide for a second straight year in 2006, but there were still 9.2 million new cases and the disease killed 1.7 million people, the U.N. health...
Speech by Hon. Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Minister of Health of the Republic of South Africa and Chairperson of the Bureau of African Union Ministers of Health (CAMH3)at The Global Health...
Widespread efforts to cut salt intake, curb smoking and to ensure those at risk of heart disease take needed drugs could prevent millions of deaths each year, international researchers said on...
Opening address to the Sixth Ordinary Session of the General Assembly of the African Population Commission of the African Union (AU), by Dr Jean Swanson-Jacobs, Deputy Minister of Social...
The global effort to fight bird flu and prepare for a threatened
pandemic will cost more than the $1,9-billion already pledged, and
more support is needed in Indonesia, which is “seriously...
Speech by the Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, at
the Launch of the National Human Resource Plan for Health during
the World Health Day Emperor’s Palace, Kempton Park