co-authored by Cary Adams.

All of us have been touched by cancer, whether personally or through the experience of our families and friends. For those of us living in the developed world, many types of cancer have ceased to be the "dread disease" they once were: Given the remarkable advances...

Co-authored with Dr. Adel Mahmoud

Why is it that we can buy Coca-Cola beverages virtually anywhere, when basic health products like oral rehydration therapy or condoms are unavailable in many of those same places? As discussed in a recent Princeton Seminar on Global Health, the answer...

By Jeffrey L. Sturchio and David Reddy

In a rural hospital in Ethiopia that cares for the poor, a fragile young girl called Zakhiya has recovered recently from severe malaria. In the six short years of her life, Zakhiya has battled a number of infectious diseases. Her...

Co-authored by Vince Forlenza, president and COO of Becton, Dickinson, and Company.

When Dr. Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, pulmonary tuberculosis killed two out of every three people it infected. If untreated, this highly transmissible respiratory infection -- known a century ago as consumption and today simply as...

Around the globe, from Cape Town to Kathmandu, from Manila to Mexico City, millions will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day on March 8 -- a day to honor the achievements made by and for women. Looking at this milestone through a global health lens, we see...

Most of us in developed countries have dwelled in the shadow of cancer. We've anxiously awaited a test result, become intimate with chemotherapy for ourselves or a loved one or held vigil at a bedside.

During those intense and often tragic periods, we usually have options -- education, treatment, pain...

Last week, UNAIDS announced that at least 56 countries have stable or declining incidence of HIV/AIDS. Yet on World AIDS Day this week, there are still two new infections for every person put on antiretroviral therapy. However, a series of promising new scientific results in prevention, including three...

One of my earliest memories is peering out at my parents from the inside of an oxygen tent when I was hospitalized for severe pneumonia as a toddler in New Jersey. If I hadn't been living in the United States, with the best medical care available in 1955, I probably...

When the world's leaders gather in New York next week at a special summit on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the United Nations will call on the global community to accelerate progress over the next five years.

The MDGs require governments -- in partnership with business,...