Using a recent grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Andrew Fung and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles are devel...
Ray Chambers | Posted 12.15.2009 | World
Thanks to unprecedented levels of funding and extraordinary collaboration among partners, the malaria community has achieved remarkable progress.
Andrew Winston | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green
Who said that tackling climate change is separate from helping the poorest among us? The issues are all integrally related and the poorest are being hit hardest by climate changes already.
John Bridgeland | Posted 12.08.2009 | World
Earlier this year, President Obama went to Africa and issued this simple statement: "Africa's future is up to Africans." He highlighted the power of Christians and Muslims in Nigeria working side-by-side to end malaria.
Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact
Young stars Hayden Panettiere, John Cho, Corbin Bleu, Leighton Meester and others have joined ONE.org to encourage college students to join their camp...
Scott Case | Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact
Malaria isn't trendy, it isn't sexy, and it isn't on the cover of every magazine this week. But, in comparison with even the most villainous vampire in the "Twilight Saga", malaria wins one contest: it's definitely scarier.
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
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 11.24.2009 | 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
msn.com | Posted 12.17.2009 | Living