Just a few weeks ago, the world’s leaders gathered for the first United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), issuing a forceful call to place the Sustainable ...
Walking into the out-patients’ department of Patan Hospital in Nepal recently, I saw the mother of a child enrolled into an enteric fever clinical trial a few years ago. She ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, responsible for 1.7 million deaths in 2016 . The majority of deaths from TB occur in low- and middle-income ...
With the rapid global expansion of effective strategies to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), an increasing proportion of HIV-exposed children (born to HIV-infected mothers) are uninfected. Worldwide, more than ...
This blog post was written by Nathaly Aya Pastrana, Maria Kathia Cárdenas, María Amalia Pesantes, L. Suzanne Suggs, Silvana Pérez León, for the COHESION Project The global burden of both ...
Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face significant risks when they become pregnant. In addition to the risk of obstetric complications confronted by all women during pregnancy, women in SSA are ...
Zoonotic diseases are those which can infect both humans and animals. Not only do these diseases impose a large burden on human health, but because livestock are often a major ...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health concern. In 2014, an estimated 700,000 deaths were attributed to AMR globally and it is predicted that by 2050 this number could ...
Since the discovery of the Ebola virus in 1976 until the most recent outbreak, there were 18 recorded Ebola outbreaks that resulted in the deaths of 1,628 people. Almost seven ...
The AIDS pandemic continues to be a major global health issue. Despite significantly accelerated implementation of effective prevention and treatment tools to address HIV and AIDS, in 2015 alone, HIV ...