HIV/AIDS is a human rights issue too
For people living with HIV/AIDS, physical illness may be only part of their struggle. Learn how you can help for World AIDS Day 2016.
Here’s what you can do on World AIDS Day, December 1
Around the world, 36.7 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. A worldwide goal is to end AIDS by 2030. Learn how you can help on World AIDS Day.
Edging closer to a polio-free world [video]
Polio, which once infected 350,000 people, is almost nonexistent today, thanks to partnerships between governments and private organizations.
The virtual medic will text you now
A virtual medic can now use mobile communications to bring health care and diagnostic tools to residents of poor and remote areas.
Joining forces to combat the deadly duo of HIV and TB
Two research organizations in South Africa are joining forces to form a new institute to combat the HIV and tuberculosis co-infection epidemic.
Guess which part of the world is free of measles
Measles has been eliminated in North, South and Central America after 22 years of vaccination campaigns, says the Pan American Health Organization.
See why Kenya’s child TB deaths are expected to fall
Kenya will be the first country to roll out a national program providing TB medicines in sweet flavors to encourage children to take their full doses.
Service dogs save lives
They say a dog is man’s (and woman’s) best friend, but service dogs help their handlers in ways beyond what even your best friend can do without training.
U.S. scientist who led fight to eradicate smallpox dies at 87
The epidemiologist who led the fight for the eradication nearly 40 years ago of smallpox, one of the world’s most feared contagious diseases, has died.