Health Funding Grows to Staggering $26 Billion for 2010
The report documents that there is a continous health funding for the developing countries. The commitment to health in the developing world has grown dramatically over the last twenty years.
Private-Private Partnership Delivers Affordable Eye Care to 18 African Countries
An Irish non-profit, Right to Sight (RTS), partnered with a NGO - Lions Aravinda Institute of Community Ophthalmology (LAICO) and a private-for-profit company, Shalina, to deliver quality, affordable and sustainable eye care in Democratic Republic o
CHAI and HP Accelerates HIV Diagnosis for 70,000 Infants in Kenya
This collaboration is in itself a breakthrough. HIV test results in Kenya usually take two to three months which is detrimental especially to infants. Infants diagnosed with HIV must begin retro-viral treatments immediately to deter death.
Is Texas the New Radio Active Dumpsite?
What could be worse for a community than to have a dumping site within its vicinity? The answer? None. Especially when it's radioactive.
More Poverty and Tuberculosis (TB) in Indigenous People
'Where we have indigenous people, we have more poverty and more TB incidence' said Mirtha del Granado, Regional Adviser on TB, WHO (in Americas) at the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health, Berlin, Germany.
