WHO urges poor nations to offer women deworming pills
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PRETORIA -- The World Health Organization urged poor countries yesterday to offer deworming pills to pregnant women after a recent study in Nepal showed a 41 percent drop in the deaths of infants of mothers who took the pills before giving birth.
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LOBBYIST Dr Glenda Simms is urging sexually abused women in the upper echelons of society to speak out more about their experiences as victims of violence, as a means of empowering their less affluent counterparts to do likewise.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) marked World Rural Women&#39;s Day on Friday by drawing attention to indoor air pollution.
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (IPS) - The poor urgently need a female-centred strategy to  fight AIDS, says a landmark new report.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- The world's leading industrialized nations yesterday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, mainly in Africa, but human rights groups termed it an insufficient commitment and part of a pattern of unfulfilled promises.
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The United Nations has appealed to world leaders to wake up to the widespread mistreatment of migrant women, a silent human army abused as everything from sex workers to domestic slaves.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says almost 250,000 women, most in developing countries, are dying each year from cervical cancer.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world body on Thursday to create a single agency to empower women and girls and fight for their rights.
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With the rates of women and girls living with HIV steadily increasing worldwide, global health, development, and corporate leaders urged policymakers and program administrators to turn the tide against global AIDS by moving beyond the current prevention
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Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines. On World AIDS Day, December 1, MSF is calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and national governments
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Developing countries are making real gains in promoting reproductive health and womenâs rights, but they are hampered by inadequate support from rich nations and serious problems persist, Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations
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&quot;We urgently need a long-term approach to the HIV epidemic that addresses the specific needs of women. Women In developing countries are increasingly more vulnerable than men to HIV and AIDS.
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The U.N. secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict, and the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to impunity for rape and other sexual abuse.
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A United Nations-backed national anti-malaria campaign in Ethiopia today appealed for urgent funding to fill a shortfall of over 50 per cent in aid needed to combat a potential upsurge in the disease that could affect more than 6 million people within the
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Health agencies on Thursday called for  tackling cervical cancer which has taken on epidemic  proportions in developing countries from Brazil to India due to  a lack of screening.
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Clinical trials of HIV vaccines requires greater participation of women and adolescents, the WorldHealth Organization (WHO) said Tuesday in a press release.