The United Nations is launching a global campaign to prevent girls and women from contracting HIV, now the leading cause of death and disease among women between the reproductive ages of 15 and 49.
Haiti’s desperate earthquake survivors faced a new threat Friday as the United Nations reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus in squalid tent camps for victims.
The colorful eye makeup worn by ancient Egyptian royalty may have had a dual purpose; beauty and prevention and treatment of eye disease . Ancient writings.
A new study on the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region finds that at least 80 percent of deaths in the war were caused by disease rather than violence. The United Nations estimates that 300000 people have been killed in Darfur since …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is confident that rinderpest is beaten after being at the centre of efforts to wipe out a disease that had seemed unstoppable for much of the 20th century and it expects the …