 | Ghana: Eradicating Malaria and the Search for New Tools
3 July 2008 | Africa
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that causes over 2.7 million deaths per year according to estimates by the World Health Organization.
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| Community Meeting with Dr. Lorenzo Savioli, Director, WHO's Neglected and Tropical Disease Department
3 July 2008 | North America
Partners Forum: Tues., July 15, 2008 at the Global Health Council, Washington, D.C. Please join Dr. Lorenzo Savioli, director of the WHO's Neglected and Tropical Disease Department to discuss global neglected tropical diseases.
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| Bush Urges Congress to Pass AIDS Funds
3 July 2008 | Global
Members of the U.S. Senate sought last week to pass legislation to more than triple funds to fight AIDS, but some Republicans vowed to block it because of its cost.
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| Africa Faces ‘Dramatic’ Physician Shortage by 2015, Cautions U.N. Health Agency
3 July 2008 | Africa
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Africa faces a “dramatic” shortage of physicians by the year 2015, according to a new study made public.
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| Bill Gates Q&A: The Challenges of Running the Gates Foundation
3 July 2008 | North America
Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates talked with Seattle Times reporters Benjamin J. Romano and Kristi Heim in the days before he moves full time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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| Maternal Health Services Lacking in UP
3 July 2008 | Asia
The list of pregnant women who suffered when in dire need of medical attention can go on and on.
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| Simple Solutions (to Global Health)
3 July 2008 | Global
For all the attention paid to the niftiest new lab research, those innovations that are most needed - and that have the most impact - are often also the simplest.
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| Uganda: Teso Women Battle Fistula
3 July 2008 | Africa
This is probably because she is not certain of the day when her reproductive complication she succumbed to due to early marriage will be rectified.
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| Egypt Fights to Stem Population Growth
2 July 2008 | Mid East
Red and white banners along Nile bridges and Cairo streets this month were Egypt's latest effort to curb an increasingly pressing problem: a population growing faster than the economy can support.
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| Political Will Helping India's AIDS Battle - U.N.
2 July 2008 | Asia
A strong political will was stimulating India's fight against AIDS, raising hopes of controlling its spread in the country with the world's third-largest caseload, the U.N.'s AIDS agency said.
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