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...