World Health

How We Can Eliminate 7 Neglected Diseases That Affect World's Poorest By 2020

Neeraj Mistry, M.D. | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Roundworm, Trachoma, Elephantiasis, G8 Summit, River Blindness, Whipworm, World Health, Neglected Tropical Diseases, G8, Hookworm, Ntds, Snail Fever, Global Health, Dear G8, NTD Prevention, Impact News

We're at risk of failing the poorest nations if we don't step up our efforts to address a health concern that's connected to the success of nearly every important socio-economic development milestone. I'm talking about neglected tropical diseases.

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World on Track to Meet MDG Safe Water Target, But Challenges Remain

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Global Health, World Water Day, Women's Health, Water, Water for Life, World Health, 2012 World Water Day, Mdg, Millennium Development Goal, World Water Day 2012, Clean Water, Impact News

Safe and sustainable drinking water is essential for the health and economic well-being of the world's population, and yet 99 percent of the world's water supply is unsafe or unavailable to drink.

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1,000 Days to Change the Future

Dr. David Nabarro | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Davos 2012, World Economic Forum 2012, World Economic Forum, Davos, Child Malnutrition, World Health, Health, Nutrition, Scaling Up Nutrition, Malnutrition, Diet, World News

Investing in nutrition can increase a country's GDP by 2-3 percent annually. This is why, as leaders meet in Davos, many are discussing the importance of food and nutrition security as central to creating lasting health and development improvements.

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Five Years Makes All the Difference

David Bowen | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Malaria, Fighting Malaria, World Health, Health, Malaria No More, Impact News

In America, we celebrate a child's fifth birthday with party hats and candles. In Africa, parents celebrate with a sigh of relief -- because it means their child is less at risk of dying from malaria.

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Safe Drinking Water: Giving Life, Health, and Hope

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Clean Water, Foreign Aid, US Congress, World Health, Earl Blumenauer, Water, Sanitation, Video, Politics News

As America prepares for the holiday season, I hope that Congress will give a gift of life, health and hope by helping people around the world with something that most Americans take for granted: safe drinking water.

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Making More Health

Alison Craiglow Hockenberry | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Making More Health, Ashoka, Boehringer Ingelheim, Changemakers, World Health, Health, Africa, World News

When you're sick, you see the doctor. When you get a medical test it goes to the lab. When you need medicine, you go to the pharmacy. Or not.

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We Can Live Longer, Healthier Lives. So Why Don't We?

Thea Joselow | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Non-Communicable Diseases, Ncds, Women's Health, UN NCDs, Non-Communicable Disease, World Health, UN NCDs Summit, Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Global Health, Impact News

You may not have heard of them grouped this way, but NCDs are diseases like cancer, diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular illness. They are the kind of sick that... wait for it... causes two out of every three deaths worldwide.

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Opportunity Knocks Twice: New Tools Could Control the HIV Epidemic

Dr. Mark Dybul | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Epidemic, Pepfar, World Health, Health, Impact News

The American people have led the fight against global HIV for nearly a decade. Africans will know who we are as a people and what we stand for if we continue to stand with them.

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Urging World Leaders at Davos to Focus on the Crisis of Chronic Diseases

Nalini Saligram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Economy, Chronic Disease, Non-Communicable-Diseases, World Health, United-Nations-General-Assembly, World Economic Forum, World News

For far too long, global health attention has focused on diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria and must go beyond them to far more common life-threatening diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, cancer and chronic lung disease.

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Mind the World Health Gap

Craig L. Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Women's Health, World Health, World News

The Obama administration's Global Health Initiative turns a blind eye to the enormous burden that mental health places on all populations. But it may not be too late to allocate funds within the GHI for this purpose.

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Sex Workers Take Cow Steroids To Plump Up In Bangladesh

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steroids, Oradexon, Red Light District, World Health, Sex, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Sex Industry, Steroid Addiction, World News

Young female prostitutes in Bangladesh have taken to using cow steroids in an effort to appear older and, in some cases, nourish themselves. In a c...

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World Health Day 2010: Key Facts, History, Issues, Events (VIDEO)

Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: World Health Day Facts, World Health Day History, World Health Issues, Global Health Issues, Education, World Health Organization, World Health Day, World Health, World Health Day 2010, Who, Video, Healthy Living News

World Health Day 2010 is being celebrated today, April 7, 2010, raising awareness about key health issues worldwide. World Health Day is an annual ...

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Profound Health Impact for Small Change

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Health Care Developing Countries, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Health, United Nations, Who, Malaria, Health Services, Universal Health Care, Un, Global Health Funding, Impact News

The WHO predicts that none of the health-related Millennium Development Goals that the international community had set itself will be met by 2015. Clearly no less than a paradigm shift will do.

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From Chewing Gum To Chocolate: 76 Innovations To Improve Global Health Backed By Gates Foundation

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Globalgiving, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Developing World, Developing Countries, Pneumonia, World Health, Malaria, Bill Gates, Global Poverty, Tuberculosis, Healthy Living News

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 76 projects using innovative ideas from chewing gum to chocolate to improve global health, and that of ...

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In the Shadow of AIDS in Africa

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sickle Cell, Sickle Cell Africa, Africa, World Health, Aids, Health, Sickle Cell Disease, World News

It seems odd that Americans could be so motivated to address the appalling inequalities behind just one terrible disease and then ignore the other.

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WHO Calls For Tamiflu Restraint

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Tamiflu, World Health Organization, World Health, Swine Flu, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu Mexico, Flu, Swine Flu Outbreak, Who Flu Phase 5, World News

MEXICO CITY — In China, mask-wearing police cordoned off more hotels Wednesday, quarantining anyone who came in contact with swine flu patients,...

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Fighting Malaria: The Cure Is Action

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malaria, World Health, Anit-Malaria Efforts, Faith Groups, Sub-Saharan Africa, Fighting Malaria, Africa, World News

"BedNets Now!" calls to people around the world to listen to the mandates of their own faith and to see the simple fact that ending malaria in the poorest regions of the world is "do-able" and should be done.

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Tuberculosis Will Take 1000 Years To Eradicate At Current Rate: WHO

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Tuberculosis, Who, World Health Organization, World Health, World News

RIO DE JANEIRO — The number of people infected with both tuberculosis and HIV is twice what researchers previously thought, top health officials...

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Egypt's Poor Sell Their Organs For A Steep Price

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Egyptian Organ Trade, Organ Trade, Organ Transplant, Organ Transplants, World Health Organization, World Health, Black Market, World News

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...

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Can This Year's Feel-Good Movie Also Do Good?

Richard Chin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Personal Health, World Health, Health, OneWorld Health, Slumdog Millionaire, Jamal Malik, Movies, Healthcare, India, Entertainment News

These days, nobody feels rich. But even a small contribution to OneWorld Health, or another organization serving neglected populations, can make everyday Americans feel like millionaires.

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Gates Foundation Sponsors Journalists' Coverage Of World Health Issues

New York Times | Donald G. McNeil Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates, World Health Coverage, World Health, Melinda Gates, Bill Gates, Gates Foundation, Media News

A major limitation on journalists covering global health is the cost: getting to a story can mean airfare to Africa or Asia, hotels, Jeep rentals, sat...

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