A health development organisation is hoping to save two million lives by 2015 by tackling diarrhoea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children globally. Read more »

Zimbabwe is struggling to deal with an increase in cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Cases of the disease nearly doubled in 2012 compared to 2011. Read more »

Imagine that snake attacks were killing a person a minute. Or that it was dogs, or foxes or chickens that were killing three-quarters of a million people a year. Envision the ... Read more »

The country has recorded more than 200 cases of malaria infections in the past three months , a trend that paints  a gloom picture on the fight against the disease. Read more »

Popular artist Omawumi Megbele is in Kenya for a two day tour to raise awareness to curb malaria. Read more »

Although the number of qualified health professionals has risen in recent years, many conditions go undiagnosed due to a shortage of specialists who lack training and funding ... Read more »

A court has dismissed a petition by a drug company that challenged the strict patent requirements that makes it a major supplier of generic medicines globally. Read more »

Mark Dybul, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, says the cornerstone of the fund's new funding model is 'continuous communication'. Read more »

A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Global Health Policy in the Second Obama Term, analyzes seven important dimensions of a complex, widening U.S. ... Read more »

Researchers hope to use a new class of drugs to exploit the physiology of the malaria parasite by blocking a salt pump at its surface. Read more »