Opening a parliamentary conference on maternal and newborn health in Kampala yesterday, President Yoweri Museveni said rampant drug theft in Uganda was partly...

Kenya is among the first countries in Africa where Swine flu was reported but the nation is now on high alert as the flu has hit once again and this time in high...

More than 100 people have died and over 5,000 have been infected in outbreaks of cholera, influenza and diarrhoea in remote parts of Papua New Guinea since last month,...

After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent...

The Gujarat government has shown to the world how to take care of the pregnant women in the rural and remote areas of the state. The programme, Chiranjeevi Yojana,...

In view of the swine-flu pandemic, which is spreading like wildfire in the world especially in the western countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...

Calling all citizens young and old: Your country needs you and your children to be Swine Flu vaccine guinea pigs. The race is on: The government and vaccine makers...

Though it may sound unbelievable, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s recommendation to introduce pneumococcal vaccine for preventing pneumonia in children in the...

After the swine flu, now it is the turn of TB to hit the world health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that a global pandemic of drug-resistant...

A month ago today, the world turned upside down in Mexico. What was the cause? Swine Flu. The world was ending, everyone would die, and contagions lurked in every...

I thought long and hard over this one and I can safely say I thought Egypt was flipping out a little when it came to the reaction undertaken towards the whole swine flu...

The Plague was on her way to Baghdad when she came across an old man. He asked, “Where are you going”? The Plague answered, “To Baghdad to kill 10,000...

The global economic crisis is likely to cause an upsurge in suicides and mental illness as people struggle to cope with losing their homes or livelihoods, the World...

The beautiful valley of Swat, in the northern part of NWFP (Pakistan), is being plagued now a day by multiple problems. Subject to the trials of terrorism, now the...

The WHO said the Philippine government should regulate the continuous “sale” of kidneys and other organs for transplants, noting that the rise in inflation...

Beijing is battling public alarm and international dismay after close to 13,000 Chinese children crowded hospitals, ill from infant milk formula tainted with melamine,...

The latest official AIDS epidemic update report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) is dated December...

World Health Organization SRI LANKA-The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for greater social equality as a way of evening out differences in health, both...

Outbreaks of measles in developing countries may be reduced by vaccinating infants at 4.5 months of age as well as at the World Health Organization’s recommended...