Global Health Progress

A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time today in polio immunization campaigns in Afghanistan.

Five billion more dollars will be needed every year for malaria funding to get the maximum possible global impact, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

Importation of Afghan heroin to Kenya, causing widespread addiction in the country, is behind an alarming spread of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, according to the latest report of the United Nations Security Council.

Polio has reemerged in several African countries where it had once been eradicated, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Monday.

Britain’s Medical Research Council announced Monday that the vaginal gel, made by U.S. drug firm Endo Pharmaceuticals and designed to prevent infection with the AIDS virus, has proved ineffective in trials in Africa.

Namibia’s National Road Safety Council announced this week that they will be administering roadblocks across the country this season.

Nearly 24,000 rural and displaced people in Zimbabwe are expected to get clean water and sanitation facilities through a new project aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality rates from waterborne diseases among rural and displaced populations.

In a unanimous vote Friday, Uganda’s Parliament outlawed female genital mutilation.

One million people in North Korea, or five percent of the population, suffer from tuberculosis, a disease North Koreans refer to as “the poor man’s disease.”

With dual antiretroviral therapy, mother-to-child transmission of HIV has dropped by almost two-thirds in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province.