On March 31, 2011, the Stop TB Partnership's Coordinating Board Meeting met for the first time in Washington, DC since 2001. The Board monitors the implementation of agreed policies, plans, and activities of the Stop TB Partnership. Hosted by the World Health Organization, the Stop TB Partnership...
In January 2012, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria marks the end of its first decade and looks ahead to the next. The Global Fund has contributed to dramatic gains in health and development over the past decade: In ten years, millions of people have received treatment for AIDS, tubercu...
Towards Universal Access, a new report on scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts, highlights gains in HIV testing and counselling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and other areas. Here is a related story. MASERU, Lesotho, 30 September 2009 With nearly a quarter of its adu...
In January 2012, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria marks the end of its first decade and looks ahead to the next. The Global Fund has contributed to dramatic gains in health and development over the past decade: In ten years, millions of people have received treatment for AIDS, tubercu...
MaximsNewsNetwork: 19 November 2009 - UNICEF: UNICEF through European Union (EU) funding aims to aid poor households and ensure the rights of orphans and vulnerable children through the Lesotho Child Grants Programme. Seventy-three year-old Mapalesa Sebatanyane lives in the remote Lesotho communi...
Opening session at the 2009 Pacific Health Summit, held in Seattle in June 2009. This session features: Jeremiah Chakaya, Chris Viehbacher, Depei Liu, Peter Singer, Tadataka Yamada, Maharaj K. Bhan, Kewen Jin, Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha, Yogan Pillay, Mphu Ramatlapeng, and Paul Famer
In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week, the Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project, with the Ministry of Health and other partners, organized a special event to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months after birth and launch demonstration gardens to grow nutritious foods for c...
Three extraordinary women give their views on the Global Fund. Mphu Keneiloe Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Lesotho; Joy Phumaphi, former Health Minister, Botswana and former World Bank Vice President; and Agnes Binagwaho, Permanent Secretary of Health, Rwanda and Chair of Rw...