In the lottery of life you don’t get to choose where you are born. But if you did, Europe is the best place for girls.
The highly anticipated report on access to medicines was released by the U.N. today. Still hot off the presses, the…
People living in the vicinity of dams in Africa will likely see a doubling of the odds they will get…
Two children were paralyzed by wild poliovirus in northern Nigeria, the World Health Organization announced. They are the first cases…
Climate change is bad news for the planet, including the mosquitoes living in West Africa. Reduced rainfall will make it…
Attacks on health-care facilities and workers in emergency settings killed 959 people and injured 1561 between 2014 and 2015. For…
GENEVA — World Health Organization member states agreed on Wednesday to more than double the group’s emergency fund to $494…
Abortion rates in wealthy countries are steadily falling, but there is not much change in the world’s poorest countries. New…
The World Health Organization issued a new recommendation to cut the treatment time for people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in half. The…
An estimated 43,000 Bangladeshis are dying each year from arsenic poisoning. The government has failed to solve a known problem of…