Community health worker Marc Ilboudo uses a mobile application during a consultation with a child in Pousghin, Burkina Faso. The heads of state and government from nearly 200 countries gathering this ...

A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone. By Stephanie Nolen The drug could ...

Improving health in Kenya today is an important objective, with an obvious direct impact on longevity and accelerating economic growth for millions of Kenyans The distribution of diseases in the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organization that funds the treatment and ...

The federal government on Wednesday, January 24, took a step further in its determination to reinvigorate Nigeria’s healthcare service delivery with the disbursement of Global Fund’s $933m to its ...

One in four TB deaths worldwide is HIV related, the international health agency said in its 2009 Global TB Control Report released Tuesday. That's twice as many as had been recogn ...

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS is an international financing organisation that aims to attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Global Fund and Chevron Corporation have celebrated a 12-year partnership that served as an example of the private sector’s contribution to the fight against infectious diseases and to building ...

LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - American-funded aid efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria, as well as preventing newborn baby deaths and treating severe malnutrition, should resume, according to a memo ...

Civil society groups in Lagos under the banner of the ATM Networks have called for urgent government and private sector action to address the rising health burden of tuberculosis (TB), malaria, ...