Poor and medically underserved communities need free access to the simplest of protective materials.
AP | PATRICK McGROARTY | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
GENEVA — The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level, meaning that it believes a globa...
Globe And Mail | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
The World Health Organization is moving closer to raising the pandemic alert level once again as the swine flu outbreak continues to hop from one coun...
AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak is moving closer to becoming a pandemic. WHO flu chief Dr. Keiji Fukuda told...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Mexico says the World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu by one level, two steps short of declaring a...
Huffington Post Contributor | Dr. Daniel J. Carucci | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
In places where there are few cars, where roads remain unpaved, where basic infrastructure services such as clean water and electricity are scant, mob...
McClatchy | Tim Johnson | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
The world is on the cusp of an explosion of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases that could deluge hospitals and leave physicians fighting a nearly untre...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
Taliban militants in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley region are preventing UN officials from administering the Polio vaccine to hundreds of thousands ...
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living
I just finished reading the latest about how celebrities "detox,"--pretty much by starving themselves. I cringe when I see these articles. What other ...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
RIO DE JANEIRO — The number of people infected with both tuberculosis and HIV is twice what researchers previously thought, top health officials...
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
CAIRO — The poverty of Cairo's slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn't enough, each of them sold a kidn...
AP | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
HONG KONG — The AIDS virus is spreading rapidly among gay and bisexual men in Asia as younger people shun condoms and authorities fail to increa...
CNN | Nkepile Mabuse | Posted 03.20.2009 | World
The outbreak -- one of the world's largest, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) -- is only getting worse, and could be a stepping-stone t...
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
As hopeful rhetoric permeates US leadership, Zimbabwe's health crisis is taking a turn for the worse. The average life expectancy has plummeted from 62 in the early 1990s to 36 today.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
When does denial of health care amount to a human rights violation? Zimbabwe is facing a humanitarian crisis. The cause of the crisis is a political one.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
The destruction in China is so staggering, it's hard to comprehend. Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China, and many regions can now lay claim to the most polluted air in the world.
GlobalPost.com | Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
TUGELA FERRY, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa -- Two health workers trudge up a steep, rocky hill carrying a blue cooler full of freezer packs ...
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
Global AIDS Coordinator Dybul is morally responsible for speaking out when taxpayer funding is being used to perpetuate ideology over evidence, and is leaving people at risk of new infections.
Thezimbabwetimes.com | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
HARARE - The deadly cholera epidemic had spread to all the ten provinces of Zimbabwe and killed a total of 1 518 people by Christmas Day, the World H...
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
BANGKOK, Thailand — Two of the world's largest tobacco companies, seeking to expand sales into Asia, worked to undermine anti-smoking policies i...
BBC NEWS | Posted 01.12.2009 | World
The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe which has left hundreds dead was caused by the UK, an ally of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said. Informa...
Mail & Guardian | Posted 01.11.2009 | World
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday that doctors had tamed a cholera epidemic that has left 775 dead, even as South Africa declared a di...
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living
ATLANTA — Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases...
PlusNews | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
DAKAR, 8 December 2008 (PlusNews) - Looking to get circumcised to reduce your risk of HIV infection? If you're living in Southern Africa, you might ha...
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
In Zimbabwe, the lack of medicine, equipment, services, and staff in public hospitals is resulting in preventable deaths. There is no access to care for those who cannot afford private clinics.
Richard Walden | Posted 05.30.2009 | World