Global Health Progress

By Ellis Rubinstein, Founder & Council Chair of Scientists Without Borders and President & CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences.
How proud we are when we manage to donate anti-retroviral pills to thousands of Africans suffering the ravages of HIV AIDS. But if the water they use to take the pills is killing them, [...]

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The Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring a discussion about the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates. Only in the past few years has the blogosphere become mainstream. In the health policy arena, we now see policymakers, journalists, researchers and interest groups utilizing this new media tool to deliver information [...]

A U.N. study has found that the HIV/Aids epidemic appears to be slowing, though the United Nations also warns against complacency.

The Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the National Institutes of Health, today launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight chronic diseases in developing nations.

Bipartisan legislation will combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB

Global warming may have contributed to a 43 percent rise in the number of dengue cases in the Philippines for the first half of the year, the health secretary said.

In a finding that may help explain HIV rates in sub-Saharan Africa, a recent study found that that people infected with parasitic worms may be more susceptible to the AIDS virus.

Sanofi-aventis and the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) welcome the agreement announced by Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) to reduce the volatility and the price levels of Artemisininbased Combination Therapies (ACT).

A new partnership between Lafepe and DNDi will make available the first pediatric formulation of benznidazole to patients by the end of 2009.

Brian Greenwood, 2008 winner of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, says that if governments more robustly fund malaria prevention, they can reduce the burden of the disease by up to 90 percent in some areas.