World Bank, Gates probe Africa private health care
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The World Bank's private sector arm   and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced   plans to explore private health care opportunities in Africa.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had pledged little fresh cash for the poor.
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Doctors trying to treat HIV-infected  newborns in sub-Saharan Africa are being held back by  over-priced treatments, an absence of diagnostic tools, and a  general lack of focus from policymakers and international  organizations, Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Tuesday.
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One of the biggest reasons that very poor countries can&#39;t provide decent education and health care is that they are stuck in a cycle of debt owed to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and regional development banks, much of it dating to the
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(AGI) - London, Nov. 27 - There is a chronic shortage of investments in human resources in the health sector around the world. This impedes forceful fighting of illnesses such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.
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13/12/2004 - A non-profit pharmaceutical company, the Institute for OneWorld Health, has been awarded a $42.6 million (â¬32.1m)grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates to find a new way of producing a valuable drug for malaria, which kills more than a million
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Public health experts accused the World Bank Tuesday of neglecting Africa's fight against tuberculosis, saying the institution should spend more fighting a disease whose resurgence in recent years has been linked to AIDS.
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War, poverty and diseases such as AIDS are adding to mental health problems in poorer countries, which are generally ill-equipped to respond to depression, schizophrenia and other such ailments, according to health officials.
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African health ministers and UN health experts are to discuss means of eradicating polio.
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The rising cost of privatised healthcare in Asia is behind a spike in child deaths in Cambodia and caused more than half the region to fall behind global goals to lower child mortality, a United Nations report warned.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed up with the Rockefeller Foundation to invest some 150 million dollars in a development project tackling poverty and hunger in African communities.
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Slower global economic growth has  increased risks for developing countries, especially if the  record levels of private capital that has flowed into these  markets is reversed, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
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Slower global economic growth has increased risks for developing countries, especially if the record levels of private capital that has flowed into these markets is reversed, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
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An international health partnership aimed at directing medical assistance more effectively to some of the world's poorest countries will be launched by Gordon Brown today.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders will lobby the  Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital  for the continent's health, officials said.