4 Million More Health Workers Required to Improve Global Health
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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An international fund said on Wednesday it had greatly expanded malaria prevention and treatment efforts this year that have helped beat back the disease in pockets of Africa, but much more needs to be done.
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Health centres staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease, a research group of more than 100 scholars
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While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched an international initiative Wednesday to improve the quality of healthcare in some of the world&#39;s poorest countries.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more efforts and measures to protect people from blood contamination and shortage in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-born diseases.
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Efforts to combat diseases such as malaria, Aids, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of four million health care workers, a new report has found.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 22 (IPS) - Increases in development aid will not be sufficient  to reach the United Nations targets on improving health in poor  countries, a new European Parliament report has warned.
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Access to life-extending HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries has improved during the past three years, but new infections still dramatically outpace efforts to bring treatment to patients, health officials said Monday.
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Non-profit groups developing new drugs  and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more  than $1 billion in additional funding, according to a report on  Friday.
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Â· 281,000 in need get no aid in life-sustaining tasks Â· Another 450,000 receive insufficient assistance
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The health workers' union Unison is calling for more cleaning staff in hospitals to tackle infections like MRSA.
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Global health leaders meeting in  Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on  medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make  those now on the market available to the poor.
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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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The World Health Organization  launched an initiative on Monday to improve medical services  for the elderly in a bid to tackle the growing public health  implications of a rapidly aging global population.