Will climate change tip poor nations' health systems over the edge?
Evidence of how climate shifts are affecting people's health is weak, but some officials and aid agencies are starting to act
Vaccination days are cause for celebration in Myanmar
Midwives will track down missing children to ensure everyone gets measles jab in rural Myanmar
UNDP, Global Fund gain ground on malaria in Liberia and Tajikistan
Despite improvements, challenges are tremendous as hundreds of thousands of people, mainly in sub-Saharan Arica, still suffer and die every year from malaria
Does marriage stop prostitution? Indian village thinks so
Will marriage end one Indian village's age-old practice of pimping its women?
Filling Health Care Gaps in the Wake of Disaster
When AmeriCares launched its 2011 U.S. Disaster Recovery Grants initiative, emergency response director, Garrett Ingoglia, conducted site visits to assess the health care needs of affected communities in Joplin, Missouri, upstate New York and rural Alabama. Below is his first-hand account of the scale and scope of the challenges these communities still face today.
Undernourished and anaemic - the plight of India's teen girls
South Asian adolescents suffer health problems from inadequate diets and early marriage, says UNICEF report
Forced sterilization and the Millennium Development Goals
As happens all too often, poor tribal women seem to be particularly targeted for the forced sterilization
Let's Make it Ageless: Solidarity between generations
We've all seen it in the news: younger people are getting tired of the injustice and unfairness in this world.
The business of ending malaria
it's become increasingly important that the private sector do more to care for the world we live in, writes Jonathan Klein