June 2010
NIGERIA: Installing toilets to reduce blindness
Lack of access to clean toilets or an adequate water supply, living in close proximity to animals, and poor public health awareness have helped put 2.3 million people in Nigerias Borno State at risk of contracting trachoma, a viral infection causing blindness.
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May 2010
 UN conference adopts plan to help worlds poorest countries
Nearly 200 governments who participated in a recently concluded United Nations conference in Belgium have committed themselves to fighting poverty in the worlds poorest countries while improving the lives of the 600 million people there
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April 2010
 Donor aid to the health sector is in many cases replacing, rather than complementing, government health spending in the world’s poorest regions including sub-Saharan Africa, according to new research.
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January 2010
The United Nations is seeking to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, where 390,000 infants became infected with the virus that causes AIDS in 2008, through the use of antiretroviral drugs during and after delivery.
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December 2009
UGANDA: UN officials review Malaria control efforts in Uganda. Two senior United Nations officials are currently in Uganda to review the country’s progress in controlling malaria, which every year kills an estimated 1 million people, most of them children in Africa. Click here to read

November 2009
BANGLADESH: Densely populated capital seen as swine flu risk. The very high density of Dhak’s population and its large slums make it especially vulnerable to an outbreak of H1N1 influenza, commonly known as swine flu, according to Bangladesh’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Click here to read

October 2009
US Government is to put special conditions on its humanitarian grants for at least 13 aid agencies operating in Somalia.
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August 2009
Health officials have launched a nationwide pneumococcal vaccine campaign in the Gambia, where one in six deaths is caused by pneumonia the most common pneumococcal illness according to the World Health Organization.  Click here to read

July 2009
People in eastern and southern Chad still require considerable help from the international community as they attempt to cope with the effects of displacement and in some cases to rebuild their lives Click here to read

July 2009
Rwanda has strongly denied reports that its parliament is considering a draft law which would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled. Click here to read