WHO has made important strides in its work during the Syrian crisis. A successful negotiation led to the evacuation of patients in...

Today’s investments in health R&D are poorly aligned with global public health needs. As little as 1% of all funding for health R&D is...

Ashley McQuire, one of the first patients to have survived extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, at a hospital in Klerksdorp, South...

Soda tax in Mexico. Salt limits in South Africa. Plain tobacco packaging in Australia. National health insurance in Ghana. Mandatory...

A mass vaccination campaign to protect more than 4 million children (4 766 214) against a measles outbreak in conflict-affected states in...

Policies to control tobacco use, including tobacco tax and price increases, can generate significant government revenues for health and...

Depression is an illness that can happen to anybody. It causes mental anguish and affects people’s ability to carry out everyday tasks,...

There are many compelling reasons to clean up the global environment. One of the most pressing is that a polluted environment is deadly:...

Mosquitoes kill an estimated 700 000 people a year. If infected with viruses that cause diseases like chikungunya, dengue and Zika,...

Angola declared the end of the world's worst yellow fever epidemic in a generation on Friday [23 Dec 2016] after a U.N.-backed...