After years of prioritizing diseases such as HIV and malaria, the UN has finally realized that “non-communicable diseases” such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease are now the biggest health problem facing developing countries. This will be the (...)
President Obama admits a new climate-change treaty is unlikely to emerge from the next two weeks of top-level negotiations in Copenhagen. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown want to hide the embarrassment by (...)
A major new report from doctors at University College, London, and medical journal The Lancet claims that climate change "is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. Their solution means permanent recession, more famine and more (...)
The World Health Organization claimed this week that "social injustice is killing people on a grand scale. Its major report on the "Social Determinants of Health concludes that social and economic inequality is a major global cause of disease and (...)
World AIDS Day, celebrated on 1 December, is an opportunity to reflect on the fact that 2005 shows the highest level of infection ever, rising many times faster than treatment, writes Philip Stevens*
Each year, the HIV/AIDS advocacy industry uses (...)