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2.2 million kids under the age of 5 die every year from diarrheal diseases. The vast majority of these deaths could be prevented with basic hygiene, water quality improvements and sanitation.
Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity's work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, we speak with model and actress Molly Sims about her involvement w...
President Abdoulaye Wade | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.
Telegraph | Louise Gray | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
In a new report Save the Children claims that climate change is the biggest global health threat to children in the 21st century[.]...
Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
It can cost as little as 40 cents a day to provide ARV treatment to an individual in Africa and just $26 to provide the medicine to help prevent the transmission of HIV from a mother to her child.
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 76 projects using innovative ideas from chewing gum to chocolate to improve global health, and that of ...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
We love to think of ourselves as kings and queens of the jungle, but there are many dangerous and deadly animals out there who kill humans -- intentio...
Mia Kirshner | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact
I Live Here has found its voice through what I have learned in Malawi. We found our voice through mistakes, which I am sure we will continue to make and hopefully learn from.
Richard Chin | Posted 09.25.2009 | Technology
Synthetic biology is a brand new area of biotechnology. The goal is to use genetic engineering technology to build brand new biological machines and processes de novo. It's an area that has tremendous potential.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Located at the epicenter of Rwanda's genocide, Ngeruka is a rural community that faces an array of health problems compounded by the fact that there is merely one small four-room health post servicing the entire community.
Johann Hari | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
Nobody knows why Cambodia's malaria parasites are such buffed-up hyper-Darwinian winners. Some scientists think it's because the treatments have been used there so long that the parasites have a head-start.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green
The U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic communities are to be commended for their forward-leaning approach to viewing global warming as a national security threat.
Johann Hari | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business
Far from being a font of innovation, the drug market has become stagnant. Companies squander a fortune developing "me-too" drugs so they can take out a new patent and receive another avalanche of profits.
Nathan Wolfe | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Today, me and my colleagues from Cameroon, Germany and the United States announced our discovery of the origin of malaria.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
I had to help cut off patients clothes, try to secure IV lines, and patch their burns all while trying to stomach the constant screams and the distinct fragrance of burnt flesh.
Ray Chambers | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
For HIV, women account for 60 percent of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa and transmission from mothers to newborns is a significant, yet solvable problem.
Randall Amster | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
G6PD is an essential enzyme that is lacking in people with this widespread genetic disorder, and its absence leads to a condition that is closely related to other forms of anemia.
Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
It is the very success of hundreds of health programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that has produced the surge in demand for fresh grants.
Modiba | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
N'Dour is partnering with the Senegalese government to launch "Surround Sound: Senegal" -- a comprehensive national malaria treatment and prevention program
Karl Hofmann | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
I was privileged to participate in the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town this month. More than 800 leaders of business, government, civil society and the NGO world were in attendance.
Huffington Post/Associated Press | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
A troubling paradox reported out of Africa presents a new "silent killer" to join the ranks of HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, malaria, and river blindness: o...
AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
LONDON — In the last two decades, the world has spent more than $196 billion trying to save people from death and disease in poor countries. Bu...
GlobalPost | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
If you've ever traveled to a malarial region you know the sound: the ominous buzz of a blood-sucking mosquito that may, or may not, be carrying a dead...
Josh Ruxin | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
The Global Fund is facing a funding shortfall of about $2 billion; a paltry sum in view of US financial bailouts, but resources that, if made available, will save millions of lives.
Huffington Post Contributor | Dan Carucci | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
Dan Carucci I Huffington Post Contributor On top of dealing with drones, a Taliban insurgency, and a government crackdown on that insurgency, the mor...
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Katherine Gustafson | Posted 11.13.2009 | World