The key to a new multi-billion dollar strategy to eliminate malaria deaths worldwide by 2015 is to widen availability of existing diagnostic and preventative treatments.

A public declaration of women's networks, coalitions, campaigns and organizations in the region, in commemoration of September 28, Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death says the final report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.

Despite the massive amounts of money driving current efforts, the global health agenda is still in its infancy. Increasingly, experts say, the kind of disease-focused model is defining the global health agenda.

In a development that is likely to raise more pressing questions about reform of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN), an international patent application has surfaced in which the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and US National Institutes of Health claim ownership of Indonesian influenza genes.

For years now, women’s groups in Southern Africa have campaigned tirelessly to ensure that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) adopt the Protocol on Gender and Development. Yesterday, the SADC finally took that historic step.

Children have been severely neglected in the response to AIDS, and new policies and funding must be significantly refocused to achieve what they should for children, the XVII International AIDS Conference was told.

Governments, international bodies and civil society renewed their commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS at the 17th International AIDS Conference, but they will have to work hard in order for this commitment to be reflected in concrete policies, especially on prevention.

Presentation by Elena Reynaga of the Women Sex Worker's Network of Latin America and the Caribbean (RedTraSex) on sexual workers and human rights at the 17th International AIDS Conference being held in Mexico. (doc).

A coalition of groups have sponsored an empty chair with his name, to bring attention to the detention of two Iranian doctos: Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, who have played a role in putting the issues of drug use and HIV/AIDS on the national health care agenda.