Report: India and China key to meeting global health goals

Global achievement of the health-related Millenium Development Goals, the MDGs, depends largely on India’s success and on China accelerating progress even further, according to a new UNICEF report which examines the latest trends in child and maternal health.

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WHO and World Bank join forces for better results from global health investments

As delegates gather at the International AIDS Conference (3-8 August), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank today address the pressing global debate around health systems and initiatives in specific aspects of health, nutrition and population

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Clinton Urges More AIDS Efforts

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, fresh from a tour of his foundation's projects in Africa, took the stage of the International AIDS Conference here to tell thousands that "we must do more."

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UN warning on India child health

The world will fail to reach millennium development goals unless India improves its record on health and child protection, a UN report says.

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Four million health workers needed in developing world

Recruitment of foreign healthcare workers by public and private employers is undermining efforts to fight disease in the developing world, according to a senior World Health Organization official.

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International AIDS Conference

  • August 3-8, 2008
  • Mexico City, Mexico

For scientists, researchers, people living with HIV, and other civil society leaders and professionals working in the field of HIV/AIDS, AIDS 2008 is an ideal opportunity to meet new colleagues and learn from the experiences of others engaged at the local, national and international levels.

Visit the International AIDS Conference Web site >>

Coming Together to Meet the Millennium Goals

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, do we have a hydrologist in-house to solve the problem?

The Health Blogoshpere: What It Means for Policy Debates and Journalism

Washington, D.C.
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 to their audiences.

Worldwide Aids epidemic slowing, says UN

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

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NIH Creates Global Health Program to Fight Chronic Diseases

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.

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