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In previous issues:
15/2/2008
UN Appeals for Nearly $500 Million to Slash Maternal Deaths in 75 Nations
11/1/2008
Nearly 3 Million Children In Niger Targeted In UN-Backed Measles Campaign
14/12/2007
Deadly Outbreak of Ebola Virus in Uganda Worsens, Says UN Health Agency
30/11/2007
HIV/AIDS Threatening Livestock Production, UN Agriculture Agency Warns
 (Product)Red Campaign Reaches $50 Million Contribution Mark
UN-Backed Global Fund Treats Nearly 1.5 Million Living With HIV
World AIDS Day – As important as ever to remain vigilant and increase awareness, the Commission notes
9/11/2007
DR Congo: Cholera Spreads in North Kivu
20/10/2007
Viruses from Tropical Countries Are Moving to Temperate Zones
21/9/2007
First-Year Success Reported For UN-Backed HIV And TB Drug Facility For Poor
15/9/2007
Annual Child Deaths Fall Below 10 Million, New UN Figures Show
Millions At Risk Of Exposure To Cholera In Northern Iraq, UN Health Agency Warns
13/7/2007
More measures needed on access to medicines says EP resolution
6/7/2007
Migiro Urges Comprehensive Approach To Tackle ‘Feminisation Of Aids’
29/6/2007
UN children’s agency rushes relief supplies to flood-ravaged Pakistan
UNICEF calls for awareness-raising measures to stem spread of HIV in Iran
8/6/2007
German Chancellor Proclaims G8 Talks a Success
1/6/2007
On World No Tobacco Day, UN Calls For Stamping Out Smoking In Workplace
HIV/AIDS – President Barroso announces substantial EC contribution to the Global Fund for the period 2007 to 2010
4/5/2007
Indoor Air Pollution Takes Heavy Toll On Health
27/4/2007
On Africa Malaria Day, UNICEF Says World Must Help Curb Spread Of Disease
20/4/2007
DPR Korea: UN-Backed Vaccination Drive Protects More Than 16 Million People
15/4/2007
UN Steps Up Fight Against Potentially Fatal Chagas Disease
30/3/2007
Malawi: First African  Programme To Tackle Maternal Mortality
23/3/2007
UN Envoy Calls for Stumbling Blocks to the Eradication of Tuberculosis to be Overcome
16/3/2007
UN Agency Coordinates Mass Campaign To Fight Meningitis In Four African Countries
9/3/2007
France Sets Up An International Oncology Cooperation Network.
Health Insurance Coverage In Developing Countries
16/2/2007
UN Agencies Rush Aid to Fight Illness in Flood-Ravaged Somalia
26/1/2007
Building On Measles Success, UN Health Agency Stresses Multi-Disease Prevention Strategy
19/1/2007
Child Deaths From Measles Slashed By 60 Per Cent
12/1/2007
CITES ‘Disappointed’ By European Ban on Wild Bird Trade
15/12/2006
Benghazi HIV-AIDS sufferers get EU Support
1/12/2006
On World Aids Day, UN Leaders Underline Need For Accountability
UN Labour Report Shows Toll Taken By Aids In The Workplace
17/11/2006
UN Health Charter Targets Obesity in Europe
27/10/2006
UN and partners gear up to fight neglected tropical diseases affecting billions of people
6/10/2006
UN Health Agency Urges Action to Counter Violence against Women
29/9/2006
Ethiopia can beat its biggest killer with historic push
WHO task force on Bird flu up and running
28/7/2006
First payments to Palestinian health workers under Temporary International Mechanism
7/7/2006
Eritrea:  Children Under 5 Targeted in UN-Backed Measles Vaccination Campaign
30/6/2006
French Air Travel Support for UNITAID
UN commission to accept proposals to reduce food contamination
23/6/2006
Resurgence of Polio in Namibia
Toll Mounts in Angolan Cholera Outbreak. UN Sends More Health Kits
16/6/2006
France Hosts Children And AIDS Colloquium
9/6/2006
UNICEF Helps Namibia Combat First Deadly Polio Outbreak in 10 Years
2/6/2006
Special UN meeting on fighting AIDS promises to set new national targets
19/5/2006
Success of Bangladesh Centre in Treating Childbirth Injuries
28/4/2006
UN Assembly marks 20 years since Chernobyl
Belarus grants scientist permission to live abroad
Commission welcomes changes to EU law to allow export of patented medicine to countries in need
European Commission allocates €1.5 million for emergency response to cholera outbreaks in Angola
The Commission on track to mobilize €100 Million to combat Bird Flu around the world
7/4/2006
Commissioner Michel Warns of Shortage of Doctors and Nurses in Africa
31/3/2006
European Commission gets increasing role in the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
Sudan: UN agency calls for immediate funds to prevent sharp rise in diseases
24/3/2006
Marking World TB Day, Annan Hails Plan to Save 14 Million Lives
New Re-hydration Formula Could Help Save Hundreds of Thousands of Children
UN Marks World Water Day With Message of Hope,
17/3/2006
Urgent Need For New Women’s Agency Argues UN Envoy
10/3/2006
UN official says avian flu pandemic is very likely to happen
Markos Kyprianou visits Egypt to discuss avian influenza
17/2/2006
UN and EU officials laud Rwanda for its fight against HIV/AIDS
10/2/2006
Bird Flu Outbreak in Nigeria Worries UN Agency
UNICEF Seeks Aid as Millions Suffer in Drought-Hit Horn of Africa
3/2/2006
UN hails fight against polio as number of countries with disease falls to four
27/1/2006
AIDS Pandemic Spreading Further in China
New Multi-Million Dollar Funding to Fight TB Pandemic
20/1/2006
UN health agency says it will use donated bird flu treatment for poor countries
MEPs seek tough measures on bird flu
13/1/2006
Bird Flu: Challenge to Control Disease in Animals, Says UN Agency Doctor
9/12/2005
EU welcomes permanent WTO solution on generic medicines
New Initiative To Tackle Violence-AIDS Link
25/11/2005
European Commission earmarks €2 million to tackle yellow fever outbreak in Sudan
Human flu pandemic inevitable, says WHO
11/11/2005
Bird Flu: UN-Sponsored Conference Draws Up Six-Point Action Plan
Health Millennium Development Goals Meeting in Paris
Polio Epidemic Across West And Central Africa Halted By Massive Campaign
4/11/2005
Vaccination Yields Dramatic Fall in African Measles Deaths
28/10/2005
UN launched groundbreaking campaign to support children affected by AIDS  
14/10/2005
UNESCO Unveils Low Cost Arsenic Filter Made From Waste Product
23/9/2005
Emergency Efforts To Avert Malaria Crisis In Niger
Malaria Epidemic Threatens 6 Million Ethiopians
Obesity and Overweight Now Low-Income Countries’ New Plague
2/9/2005
African Traditional Medicine Could Contribute To HIV Prevention
Wild Birds Likely To Spread Potentially Deadly Bird Flu Far And Wide
26/8/2005
Africa Facing Tuberculosis Epidemic
22/7/2005
Lack Of Modern Fuels Kills 1.6 Million People Per Year, Says UN Report
15/7/2005
Growing Problem Of Anti-Biotic Resistance, Say UN Agencies
8/7/2005
UN Experts and Partners Draw Up $100-Million Plan To Avert Human Bird Flu Pandemic
1/7/2005
UN-Backed Global Fund Reports Rapid Expansion In Treatments
UN Report: Many Poor Countries Not On Track To Meet Health Targets
24/6/2005
New Costs Of Fighting AIDS Pandemic Released
3/6/2005
Two Billion People Need Access To Basic Sanitation By 2015 To Meet UN Target
6/5/2005
EU puts women’s reproductive health and child rights at the heart of Development policy
Indonesia Polio Cases Increase
UN And Partners Immunize 1.2 Million Children In West Bank And Gaza
UNICEF Calls For Emergency Relief For Drought-Affected Children, Women In Kenya
29/4/2005
European Commission Provides Further EUR 1.5 Million To Tackle Marburg Outbreak
Fifth Anti-Malaria Day Underlines Toll On Africa
22/4/2005
Partnership To Stop Malaria Has Made Unprecedented Gains, UNICEF Says  
8/4/2005
Deadliest Ever Outbreak Of Marburg Disease In Angola
Violence Against Women Is Cause And Consequence Of HIV Spread  
1/4/2005
Africa Shows Alarming Rise In Tuberculosis, UN Reports
Cholera Outbreak Overshadows Positive Developments In Eastern DR Of Congo
Three Children Die Each Minute From Infected Water, Says UN
18/3/2005
Frechette Identifies Hurdles In Fighting AIDS
UNICEF Appeals On Behalf Of Zimbabwe’s Children
UNICEF Work To Reduce Child Mortatlity In Angola
4/3/2005
With Help And Effort, Up To 43 Million Africans Can Avoid HIV Over Next 20 Years
18/2/2005
Eastern DR Of Congo Hit By Less Usual Form Of Plague, UN Says
4/2/2005
Asia’s Polio-Endemic Countries On Track To Eliminate Disease This Year
17/12/2004
Significant Achievements In The Prevention Of Avoidable Blindness  
3/12/2004
Conference Seeks Safe Drinking Water For All  
26/11/2004
HIV/AIDS Major Obstacle to Global Development  
19/11/2004
Conflict And Lack Of Funds Threaten Polio Eradication Campaign
12/11/2004
EU helps ‘child survival crisis’ in Cambodia   
Online Prevention Techniques For Sex Workers
UN Analysis Urges Integrating Reproductive Health And HIV Prevention Campaigns
29/10/2004
Commission proposes to allow export of generic medicines to poor countries
European Commission Strengthen Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Malaria And Tuberculosis
22/10/2004
UNICEF Acts To Bring Iodised Salt To West African Children  
8/10/2004
Poor Babies Die; Rich Babies Live  
24/9/2004
Call To Boost Production Of Anti - Malaria Nets
17/9/2004
Southern Africa Nations Are Determined To Win The Battle On Aids
UN Redoubles Efforts To Protect World's Cancer-Preventing Ozone Layer  
3/9/2004
China: UNICEF Head Look At Health And Education Deficit In Tibet
UN Expert Urges Donors To Make Good On Reproductive Health Pledges  
World's Biggest Drive Against Intestinal Worms Reaches 4.5 Million Afghan Kids  
6/8/2004
Eat More Fruits And Vegetables, Says UN
30/7/2004
UN Labour Agency Project Helping Workers In India Suffering From HIV/AIDS
23/7/2004
Plant Grown Antibodies Could Be Major Weapon In Fight Against Disease Say European Researchers
16/7/2004
New Human Development Report Shows Aids Is Making Many Countries Poorer  
US Decision To Deny Funds Could Cost Thousands Of Lives Says UN Population Agency  
9/7/2004
UNICEF Teams Up With H&M To Fight AIDS And Help Girls’ Education In Cambodia  
Asia-Pacific Faces AIDS Catastrophe Unless Urgent Action Is Taken Now 
AIDS : Highest Ever Infection Rate  
2/7/2004
Health in developing countries - Commission and WHO join forces to deliver on development goals
25/6/2004
Finance Still A Problem As World Moves Closer To Meeting Targets For Reproductive Health
New African Outbreaks Confirm Advance Of Polio
11/6/2004
Education Programme Is Reducing HIV Infection Among African Refugees, UN Says  
EURO 2004 Feels Free To Say No To Smoking
4/6/2004
Commission Allocates EUR 9.1 Million Healthcare Funding To North Korea  
14/5/2004
Growing Problem Of HIV Among Young People In The Ukraine
30/4/2004
Commissioner Nielson Meets Executive Director Of UNFPA Thoraya Ahmed Obaid
23/4/2004
Commission takes further steps to ensure access to medicines for poor countries
16/4/2004
Polio Outbreak Spreads To Botswana  
2/4/2004
UN AIDS Chief Appeals For Help For Swaziland
12/3/2004
UN Health Agency Launches Photo Contest To Fight Pregnancy And Abortion Deaths  
27/2/2004
Combating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Africa, Europe and Central Asia
EU At First Ever Global Conference On Animal Welfare
West Africa: Victory Over Polio By End Of 2004  
20/2/2004
Massive New Immunization Drive Aims To Reverse Recent Polio Expansion In Africa  
30/1/2004
Nigerian Polio Virus Spreads To Seventh Country  
23/1/2003
European Commission offers help in Avian Influenza crisis to Vietnam
UN Health Chief Outlines Three-Point Agenda To Combat Crises
9/1/2004
UN Says Polio Is Spreading To Countries Where It Had Been Eradicated
18/12/2003
Health Injustices Are Rife, Says UN Agency
8/8/2003
Despite The World's Efforts The AIDS Pandemic Is Worsening
28/11/2003
UN Children's Fund Names Hiv-Positive Muppet 'Children's Champion'
21/11/2003
AIDS: Annan Asks EU For A Billion Dollars
Gates Foundation Gives $10 Million To UN Fight Against Deadly Maternal Tetanus
Polio Could Be Wiped Out In A Year If Governments Marshalled Political Will Say UN Experts
UNICEF Reports Progress In Afghanistan Despite First Murder Of A UN Staff Since The Fall Of The Taliban
14/11/2003
UN Joins With Asian Countries To Combat Substandard, Counterfeit Medicines
7/11/2003
China: UN Official Urges Help To Remove Stigma From Those With Hiv/Aids
31/10/2003
EU Accelerating the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
24/10/2003
Annan Welcomes Pact On Lowering Aids Drug Prices In Developing Countries
UN Launches Massive Polio Immunization Campaign In West Africa
5/9/2003
Commissioner Busquin presents clinical trials programme to African Health Ministers .
EU strongly welcomes WTO deal on generic medicines
29/8/2003
Polio Campaign Shows It Is Possible To Treat All In Angola
8/8/2003
UN Health Agency Urges Even Stronger Measures To Curb Tobacco Use
1/8/2003
Combating poverty related diseases: European Commissioner Busquin to visit Africa
UN Appeals For $530 Million For Southern Africa
11/7/2003
Support Conference For Global Aids Fund
African Leaders Urged To Invest In A Full-Scale Response To Aids
27/6/2003
Dirty Water Kills 55 Children In Mozambique Each Day Says UNICEF
40 Countries Sign Tobacco Control Treaty
23/5/2003
Cape Town Consultations reveal immense burden of HIV/AIDS on women and households
First Ever International Treaty For Public Health
Italian-Financed Cancer Centre Opens In West Bank
WHO Announces Business Sector Partnership To Fight SARS In Asia
9/5/2003
WHO Backs Production In Tanzania Of Indigenous Medicine To Cure Malaria
2/5/2003
Afghanistan Launch Tetanus Vaccination Campaign
WHO Helps African Countries To Take Precautionary Measures Against SARS
25/4/2003
UN Agencies Call For Urgent Increase In Funds To Fight Malaria
Viet Nam Could Become First Country To Contain SARS
18/4/2003
Afghanistan: Campaign To Immunize 6 Million Children Against Polio
11/4/2003
'Signs Of Progress' In Global Efforts Against Illicit Drugs
Youngsters In Asia Face Alarming Hiv Risk Due To High Drug Use
3/4/2003
World Health Day: UNICEF Calls For Shielding Children From 'Silent Dangers' Of Abuse, Violence, Exploitation
World Health Day: Commission Aims To Cut Back Pollution
28/3/2003
Mixed Picture On World Tuberculosis Day
7/3/2003
Agreement On Global Anti-Tobacco Treaty
28/2/03
Zambia's Food And HIV Crisis Persist Despite Un Support
HIV/AIDS disease of mass destruction
7/2/2003
The European Group on Ethics makes public its Opinion on the Ethical aspects of clinical research in developing countries
Largest-Ever Anti-Polio Campaign In India
31/1/2003
World Must Galvanize To Stave Off Southern Africa's Total Collapse
24/1/2003
50th World Leprosy Day on 26 January 2003 – A view from Pakistan - Photo feature by Akhtar Soomro at a Leprosy Centre in Karachi
UN And Sex Workers Hold First-Ever Talks
10/1/2003
EU seeks to break the current deadlock on WTO access to medicines
Global Vaccine Coalition Backs Un Immunization Strategy For Measles
Aids In Africa Can Be defeated
France gives a boost to health care in Palestine
Emergency humanitarian food aid for North Korean children
13/12/2002
AIDS In Africa Has 'A Woman's Face
6/12/2002
Women's Access To Reproductive Health Care Critical To Ending Poverty
29/11/2002
AIDS And Famine Are Cruel Combination, UN Deputy Secretary-General Says
AIDS Worsens Famine In Southern Africa
22/11/2002
UN-Supported Initiative Helps Vaccinate 10.5 Million Children Against Hepatitis
15/11/2002
Campaign Underway To Vaccinate 60 Million African Children Against Polio
8/11/2002
Afghanistan: a formidable challenge
'Micro-Credit' Pioneer Named Goodwill Ambassador For UN Aids Agency
New UN Project To Help Arab Countries Break Silence On Hiv/Aids
25/10/2002
Affordable Global Vaccine Supply At Risk
18/10/2002
China On Brink Of Explosive Aids Epidemic
11/10/2002
Southern Africa Urgently Needs Health Services
Un Health Agency Urges More Funding To Boost Tb Control
4/10/2002
Governments Discuss Banning Toxic Pesticide
Malaria Genomes Decoded
27/9/2002
Final Push To Eliminate Polio From Horn Of Africa
20/9/2002
HIV/AIDS Is Spreading Faster In Central And Eastern Europe Than Anywhere Else
13/9/2002
Europe Teams Up With Developing Countries to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis
WHO Chief Calls For Prompt Response To Food Crisis In Southern Africa
24/5/2002
Majority Of World's Couples Use Contraception Say UN
17/5/2002
Special Session on Children Concludes by Adopting 'Practical and Achievable Checklist'
World 'Living Dangerously' says World Health Chief
10/5/2002
UN Special Session on Children Gets Underway in New York
Teachers Dying From Aids 'Faster Than They Can Be Trained'
12/4/2002
Move! Or Catch a Non-Communicable Disease
The Elderly - Burden or Resource?
5/4/2002
Arrest of Health Workers by the Military Disrupts Campaign to Eradicate Polio in the Sudan
29/3/2002
Real Prospects For Total Ban on Tobacco Advertising
22/3/2002
The Buruli Mysteries
Vitamin C to the Rescue As Scurvy Breaks Out in the Mountains
Where and Where Not To Give Birth
15/3/2002
Commission Channel Medical Aid to Sri Lanka and Ethiopia
Swedish Conference Seeks to Reduce Mortality of Babies and Young Children
8/3/2002
World Health Organisation Holds Industry Responsible For Low Tobacco Taxes in Developing Countries
New Financial Resources to Fight AIDS Desperately Needed, says UN Envoy
Guinea Worm Disease Threatening Come-Back, WHO Warns
EU Tables Proposals To Complete Jigsaw On Access To Essential Medicines
22/2/2002
Smoking in Europe Still on the Increase, Conference Told.
8/2/2002
Africa: Where Have All the Doctors Gone?
Healthy Population is Key to Economic Development, says WHO chief
25/1/2002
UNICEF Responds to Safeguard the Children of Goma
British MEP Appointed World Health Organisation Envoy to Mid-East
4/1/2002
Ebola Strikes Again in Gabon and Congo
21/12/2001
Target Set To Eradicate Riverblindness
30/11/2001
The UN Worries About AIDS, In Eastern Europe Especially
9/11/2001
Beware of Tobacco and Those Who Promote it Argues WHO
Humanitarians Must Do What Humanitarians Must Do
2/11/2001
New Research Strategies for Improving the Health of the World's Poor
5/10/2001
Afghanistan Is Not The Place To Be Having a Baby
28/9/2001
AIDS: 'Doing Nothing' is Most Expensive Says UN Deputy SG

7/9/2001
Yellow Fever Outbreak Could Cause 'Thousands' of Deaths
31/8/2001
Closing Africa's Condom Gap Requires a Trebling of Supplies
3/8/2001
African Leaders Optimistic About Defeating AIDS say UN
27/7/2001
Despite Significant European Contributions, AIDS Fund Unlikely to Reach Target
22/6/2001
Private Sector Lines Up Behind Annan's Global AIDS Fund
8/6/2001
AIDS Epidemic Still in Early Stages in Many Countries, say UN
Private Sector Responds to AIDS Treatment Call
1/6/2001
A 400 Year Fume Against Tobacco
Commissioners Press Pharmaceutical Industry to Deliver on Low Cost Medicines
HIV/AIDS is Becoming a Gender Issue, say UN Agencies
18/5/2001
Annan Gets Some Good News
Innovative Malarial Treatment Offers New Hope for Children
11/5/2001
AIDS Will Reduce Labour Force by a Quarter in 10 African Countries, Says UN Agency
Red Cross Pilot Killed Over Sudan
Commission Provides EUR 2.5 million To Fight Meningitis in Ethiopia
4/5/2001
European Commission Welcomes UN Secretary-General's AIDS Appeal
27/4/2001
Annan Encourages Leadership On Eve of African Health Summit
20/4/2001
Drugs Companies Withdraw from Court Action in South Africa
Pleas for Funding to Stem Africa's Health Crisis
13/4/2004
Web System Cuts Cost Of Buying Of Anti-TB Drugs
6/4/2001
GTZ Aids Russia's Ailing Health System as Tuberculosis Tightens Its Grip
Brundtland's Efforts to De-stigmatize Mental Illness As World Health Day Approaches
30/3/2001
European Parliament Urges Drugs Companies to Drop South African Law Suit
Progress Apparent on AIDS Drugs Availability
Private Sector Urged to Play Bigger Health Role
16/3/2001
African AIDS Strain Not Being Targeted in Vaccine Trials Says Health Expert
9/3/2001
New Affordable Malaria Treatment to be Developed by WHO and GlaxoSmithKline
2/3/2001
Britain Helps WHO to Control Cholera Outbreaks in Zimbabwe
23/2/2001
UNFPA Welcomes Increased Support from Ireland and Norway
In Sierra Leone Where There's Life There's Health
16/2/2001
UNICEF Vitamin A Supplements Save a Million Childen's Lives
UNICEF Vaccinates 14,000 Children Against Measles In India's Quake Zone
9/2/2001
UN Agencies Warn that Pesticides Sold in Developing Countries Pose Serious Health Risks
19/1/2001
Mia Farrow To Help Launch Nigerian Polio Campaign
12/1/2001
Kosovo: Kouchner Visits Depleted Uranium Bombsite
DaimlerChrysler Fights Back as AIDS Damages Productivity in South African Plants
29/12/2000
Bhutan To Unveil Herbal Secrets
22/12/2000
Yellow Fever Outbreak Threatens 'Several Millions' in Guinea
Poorer Half of World can Expect Better Health Within a Decade, UN Report Says
15/12/2000
Fully Fund Early Childhood Care, say UNICEF
1/12/2000
Aids In Africa: "Catastrophic!"
Aids In Perspective
24/11/2000
Almost Half The World's People Lack Adequate Sanitation,
17/11/2000
Governments Unite To Save Women's Lives 
3/11/2000
Western Pacific Now Polio Free
27/10/2000
Saudi Arabian to Head UN Population Fund
Uganda Ebola Outbreak Worsens 
Population Fund Director warns of AIDS threat in South Asia
Polio Stops Fighting Again
20/10/2000 
Africa: Child mortality rates continue to give concern
Afghanistan: Still in the thrall of war and pestilence 
13/10/2000
'A Child Goes Blind Needlessly Every Minute’ A Warning on World Sight Day
Switzerland: Rackets and Clubs to Fight Polio
WHO appeals for international aid to fight Rift Valley Fever in Yemen
West Bank and Gaza: Emergency Aid allocated
Free health versus drug trips
6/10/2000
Winners Of «Race Against Poverty» Awards Announced
Bruntland Calls for “Massive Effort to Roll Back Killer Diseases”
29/9/2000
Olympic Athletes Back Malaria Campaign 
“Veterinary services should not be considered as a luxury,” 
New Strategies to fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis
22/9/2000
AIDS - The paramount threat
Sleeping Sickness is Back
One Million Child Deaths from Indoor Air Pollution
Norwegian Boost for Africa’s Health