Global Health Progress

The Burundi Health Ministry and UN World Health Organization Monday began a three-day immunization campaign against polio following two reported cases of the disease in Cibitoke province.

Researchers in Kenya have discovered that malaria-causing mosquitoes are changing their feeding habits to begin earlier in the evening before people go to bed.

Global philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates stressed the importance of government spending on global healthcare despite economic downturn.

Every year, half a million women die from pregnancy and childbirth problems due to poor access to health information or insufficient research into practical ways to improve maternal health in developing countries.

Tackling five health factors may hold the key to preventing millions of premature deaths and raise global life expectancy by almost five years, the United Nation’s World Health Organization said Tuesday in its Global Health Risks report.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) declared Tuesday that maternal and child mortality rates in Sudan were close to emergency levels.

President Kibaki spoke of Africa’s serious socio-economic challenges like poverty, housing, food security, education and high maternal deaths.

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health of the South African province of Durban, will host an HIV and AIDS Care Management and Treatment (CCMT) Summit this week.

A mobile clinic has been set up in Cabinda, Angola to distribute vaccines to Angolans recently expelled from The Democratic Republic of Congo.

Seven Namibian regions have been affected by an outbreak of measles.