Health

Geneva, 23 June– WHO has today removed Hong Kong from its list of areas with recent local transmission of SARS. Twenty days, which is twice the maximum incubation period, have passed since the last case […]

Washington, 20 June– President Bush and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have agreed to launch a joint program to improve HIV/AIDS treatment, care, and prevention in the Portuguese-speaking African nations of Mozambique and […]

New York, 18 June– The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today launched the first-ever report on women in sub-Saharan Africa living with obstetric fistula, a debilitating pregnancy-related condition caused by prolonged obstructed labour. UNFPA said […]

Geneva, 17 June– The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today removed its recommendation to postpone all but essential travel to Taiwan Province of China, leaving just Beijing on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) […]

Washington, 16 June– The struggle to control HIV/AIDS is both domestic and international, requiring the combined efforts of companies and countries, of outside drug manufacturers and an aggressive homegrown marketing campaign of education and drug […]

New York/Geneva, 13 June– The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today removed travel restriction to Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and Tianjin in China, leaving just two areas, Beijing and Taiwan Province, on the Severe […]

Geneva, 6 June– New pledges from European donors to support international counter-disease efforts were reported as the governing board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria met in Geneva June 4-6. New […]

Washington, 4 June– To those critics who claim that the infrastructure in Africa is inadequate to support the use of anti-retroviral drugs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, United Nations Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa […]