Global Health Progress

A new report by UNAIDS states that the rate of new HIV infections slowed drastically in 2008.

India has launched a vaccination campaign to erradicate polio in the country’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, thought to have the world’s highest concentration of the disease.

The world’s largest vaccination program against yellow fever is starting in West Africa, to be complete by 2015.

“There is a new man in South Africa,” a new HIV awareness campaign states, hoping to change cultural ideas of male sexuality.

Released on November 20, 2009, ‘Case Studies for Global Health’ is a compilation of best practices and lessons learned from programs addressing global health challenges in the developing world. A joint initiative of the “Alliance for Case Studies in Global Health,” the publication will be presented to global health stakeholders throughout the world in late 2009 and 2010.

The UN and Philippine government are discussing effective ways to disseminate information to the youth of the country to prevent further spreading of the disease.

Maoist violence in Chhattisgarh could threaten humanitarian efforts in the area.

Universal Children’s Day is a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children.

Guatemala faces a serious challenge to deliver improvements to the indigenous women across the nation.

The 5th Pan-African Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Conference ended in Nairobi, Kenya on Nov. 13, with scientists providing renewed hope for the elimination of the disease through a debut of new technological surveillance tools, increased political and investment commitments, and promising developments on a malaria vaccine.