Global Health Progress

Preventable and treatable diseases are more deadly in remote northeastern Kenya, due to poor healthcare, a harsh climate and an influx of refugees.

Liberia’s maternal and newborn mortality rates have reached 10 percent, the country’s health authorities announced Thursday.

Ghana launched a policy to coordinate road safety activities in Accra Thursday, validating the country’s existing road safety interventions.

More women in Guinea-Bissau are choosing to give birth in hospitals, instead of using traditional birthing attendants.

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) pledged $2.7 billion over the next five years to advance HIV programs in Kenya.

The A/H1N1 pandemic is not over yet, and it remains uncertain how the situation will evolve in the next few months, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.

Health authorities in India’s Kanpur District were unable to reach their goal of detecting 70 percent of tuberculosis cases in 2009, due to a lack of coordination among various government hospitals in urban and rural areas.

Of the over 75,000 people screened for HIV in Ghana’s Volta Region between January and October of this year, over 3,000 have tested positive.

Women are less willing than men to participate in HIV/AIDS vaccine trials, researchers revealed Tuesday.

Dutch researchers are concerned that health experts may be incorrectly dismissing the burden of influenza throughout the African continent.