GLOBAL
CLIMATE CHANGE - Dozens of countries have signed on to the Manila Declaration after meetings in the Philippines, agreeing to work together to protect coastal communities around the world from t...

GLOBAL
MDGs - Increasing access to family-planning services for women around the world remains an integral element to improving womens health and achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related ...

AFRICA
COTE DIVOIRE is abandoning free health care for all after a brief experiment because of skyrocketing costs.
KENYA - Voluntary counselling and testing centres around Kenya are turning people awa...

GLOBAL
MDGs - Revised estimates of the costs of global achievement of the first six Millennium Development Goals call for an extra $120 billion to be spent annually on health, education and poverty re...

GLOBAL
CLIMATE CHANGE is emerging as a growing threat to food security and agricultural yields at a time when farmers must produce yet more food to feed the worlds rising population, writes a group of...