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African governments and international donor agencies to deliberately downplay the extent of blood-borne infections because it has been easier to blame individuals and their sexual practices than to take responsibility for ensuring safer healthcare. One study of HIV-positive Swazi children...

PlusNews. "For countries [where] the epidemic is generalized but stabilizing, it is no longer necessary to have special budgets for HIV but rather development budgets in which HIV is included in all aspects."...Critics argue that investment in HIV programming has...

A team of eye specialists from India, Malawi, and Tanzania have revealed that patterns of childhood blindness have been changing and there is a need to reassess the strategies for recognition and treatment of the disease in developing countries. According...

African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate all children against rotavirus, to end an “unacceptable” yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily. The West African Rotavirus Advisory Board on 3...

Boston University’s Center for Global Health and Development has won an $8.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project to test low-cost methods for saving the lives of millions of newborns worldwide. The Boston Globe...

Health officials in Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland have expressed concern over a rise in mental illness, which they attribute to post-war trauma, joblessness, drug abuse and khat use. "Mental health problems have increased in Somaliland because of several...

The drugs’ regulator in the country on Monday disowned its presentation to Parliament over fake drugs in circulation. The unprecedented move came after the committee poked holes into the report saying it was incomplete and flawed. The action by the...

Those policies led to more than 300,000 premature deaths, a Harvard study concluded. The changes are in line with new guidelines issued a day earlier by the World Health Organization that call for HIV-infected pregnant women to be given drugs...

After 20 years, the Carter Center is ready to declare a major victory in its war on guinea worm: Nigeria, once the worst-afflicted country in the world, appears to be free of the worms. It will take two more years...