Poorest Areas to Benefit from Health Initiatives
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Englandâs most disadvantaged towns and cities will be the first to benefit from funding for new initiatives set out in this weekâs White Paper, the Government announced today.
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Working in poverty-stricken areas gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in a position to bring about change.
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LONDON -- Wealthy countries are falling billions of dollars short of their promises to help fund reproductive health care and efforts to improve the status of women around the world, the United Nations said yesterday.
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DAULAT NAGAR, Pakistan -- Nusrat Riaz, a doctor for 17 years, has spent the past three directing a clinic that provides care to thousands of poor patients in this remote, wheat-farming village on the plains of Punjab.
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Rich nations pledged $200 million to  fight diseases in poor countries on Wednesday, promising to  slash the time it takes to get new vaccines to needy children  and save more than a million lives a year.
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Seven developing countries in Africa and Asia will be the first to take part in a new global health campaign aimed at directing aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries, Britain said on Wednesday.
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Working in poverty-stricken areas  gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems  such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in  a position to bring about change.
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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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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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Measures to tackle rising public health problems are being hit by a lack of funds, health chiefs say.
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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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England's unhealthiest places revealed by government "health maps".
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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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While spending on health has tripled over the last 20 years, poor countries are not reaping the benefits, experts warn. BY MICHAEL O BOYLE/The Herald Mexico.
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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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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
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Improving access to medicine could save 10 million lives a year globally, a U.N. health envoy said on Thursday, recommending that drugmakers support research for neglected diseases and cut prices in poor countries.