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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The biggest challenge in the global fight against AIDS is no longer money for drug research and treatment but the lack of local health services in nations worst-hit by the disease, the World Bank said on Monday.
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African, especially southern African, nations must link tuberculosis testing and treatment with HIV prevention programs if they are to win the AIDS battle, a top World Health Organisation official said on Thursday.
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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.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week will put efforts to curb disease and poverty in Africa at the center of the agenda of the Group of Eight industrial nations next year.
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South Africa's ruling party has  accused top U.S. officials of treating Africans like guinea  pigs amid questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before  a U.S.-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent.
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WASHINGTON -- Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top US health officials were warned that research in Uganda on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported severe reactions, including deaths, government documents show.
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The U.S. government and several mobile phone companies have announced a $10 million initiative that takes advantage of cell phone networks to improve heath care in the developing world.
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At least 75 million US dollars has been pledged to support the health sector in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s most populous country, in an effort to hasten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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WASHINGTON -- The World Bank spent less than 1 percent of its global health money last year on tuberculosis control, despite the growing numbers of AIDS patients in Africa who are dying from tuberculosis, according to a report issued yesterday. The report, by a nonprofit advocacy group, called on the institution to greatly increase efforts to fight the highly contagious ...
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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Progressive leadership in some African  states presents a big opportunity for development but donor  countries and especially the United States must respond, World  Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Monday.
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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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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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(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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NEW YORK  - A mobile medical information  company is collecting used personal digital assistants (PDAs)  to send to doctors in Africa, and outfitting the devices with  the latest, up-to-date health information.
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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.