In Sub-Saharan Africa the HIV epidemic has largely been spread through sexual intercourse, a complicated and messy behavior that has proven highly stubborn to intervention. Outside of Africa, the HIV epidemic, ...

Right now in Kampala, Uganda a group of experts are gathered to discuss a topic that has gone out of fashion of late, but a topic that might be vitally important to achieving reductions in both child and maternal mortality.

I have just finished up at really interesting conference in London entitled "The global economic crisis - including children in the policy response". The conference was jointly hosted by UNICEF and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). ...

Swine flu has now spread so far and wide across the globe that there is perhaps little point in governments spending a lot of effort at trying to contain the spread of the virus across its borders. But one country in particular probably has real cause for concern: Saudi Arabia. ...

We don't hear a lot about cholera any more, but as the cholera epidemic that broke out last year in Zimbabwe has shown us, most developing countries are still vulnerable to occasional breakouts and in places in Asia, where cholera is still endemic, it is still causing significant illness. ...

During the last couple of weeks some variant of the following catchy headlines have been making their way around twitter and in the media: "Not enough malaria nets for children" or "School-age children found to be least protected from malaria". ...

The image of a young boy leading his blind elder is common to many who have lived or traveled in rural parts of Africa. It is this image that has been captured in a series of statues located around the ...