Les conclusions qui indiquent que le pian, une maladie tropicale négligée, peut être traité avec une efficacité identique par une dose unique d’antibiotiques administrée par voie orale ou par l’injection de pénicilline actuellement recommandée ont […]

Findings that a one-time oral treatment to cure yaws, a neglected tropical disease, is as effective as the currently recommended penicillin injection have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a meeting on how […]

About 150 asylum-seekers in Australia have suspended their hunger strike after accusing the government of reneging on a promise for community detention and bridging visas for long-term detainees who posed no risk, activists confirm. At […]

Agriculture has been seen either as a cause or victim of global warming at the UN climate change talks over the past few years – something that has thwarted efforts to attract the investment it […]

A nationwide campaign to stop the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt is to be launched by the government in a few weeks, say officials, but details are still sketchy. The new plan, which […]

Côte d’Ivoire is abandoning free health care for all after a brief experiment because of skyrocketing costs. “In nine months the government had to pay 30 billion CFA francs [about US$60 million] under difficult circumstances,” […]

Breast cancer continues to be misunderstood, under-diagnosed and fatal, particularly in developing countries, say researchers, despite more than one million official annual diagnoses and almost half a million recorded deaths annually. Even with growing efforts […]

In the past five years, “resilience” (the ability to absorb shocks and recover) has become quite a buzzword in the aid community. Discussions on adapting to a changing climate are increasingly peppered with the “need […]