Global Health Progress

Joint Effort with Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative Will Improve Access to Health Care for Children with HIV/AIDS
Washington, D.C., – The Abbott Fund joined representatives from the U.S. government, Baylor College of Medicine, the government of Tanzania and other partners today at a U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) news conference to announce [...]

A Motswana scientist has won the International Public Health Award from the United States’ Office of Global Health (OGH), an organ of the Central Disease Control (CDC) office. Dr Poloko Kebaabetswe won the award for her dedication and leadership in successfully directing the TDF2 HIV Prevention Study in Botswana. In an interview, Dr Kebaabetswe said the award was in recognition of her effort to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

An important conference which culminates in Gabon today could help save the lives of millions of children by bridging the gap which often separates efforts to improve health and save the environment.

A quarter-century after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the world is finally gaining ground against AIDS. Yet the millions of new infections and deaths each year are sobering reminders of the daunting challenges ahead.

MAP International Congratulates Merck Donation Program For 50 Years of Philanthropy
MAP International Congratulates Merck Donations Program For 50 Years of Philanthropy Across the globe, nearly 3 billion people – almost half the world’s population – live on less than $2 a day. For many of these people, access to healthcare is an ongoing challenge. Of [...]

In August, WHO has published its 10 facts to understand better the problematic around maternal health in developing countries. More than half a million women die every year of complications during pregnancy or childbirth.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, the new Global Ambassador of The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, joined Rwanda’s Ministry of Health in launching the first-ever national deworming campaign last week in the Nyaruguru District as part of its Mother Child Health Week.

WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) will hand over its report to the World Health Organization (WHO). The press conference will take place in Geneva on the morning of 28 August.

“We suffer with not one, but two blinding diseases — river blindness (onchocerciasis) and trachoma.” Levels of eye disease in the south are feared to be among the worst in Africa — some 80 percent of them preventable or curable had resources been available, according to health ministry estimates.

Rwanda this week relaunched the indoor-insecticide spraying program to control the spread of malaria in Kigali…Indoor-insecticide spraying is one of the malaria control programs adopted last year in addition to the widely used bed nets and a new prescription medicine Coartem.