The Obama administration “has yet to announce a candidate to head” USAID, despite the talk “about how superimportant foreign assistance is these days,” columnist Al Kamen writes in a Washington Post opinion piece examining the vacant USAID administrator position.
According to Kamen, “theres an increasing feeling in the foreign aid community that the leadership required [...]

South East Asian health ministers met on Monday in Kathmandu, Nepal, for their 27th meeting during the 62nd session of the WHO Regional Committee for South East Asia, Republica reports. During the four day meeting, health ministers from 11 member countries and other delegates will discuss a range of topics, including health and climate change, [...]

One of the “most lethal forms of sex discrimination” is the “systematic inattention to reproductive health care, from family planning to childbirth” in developing countries, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. According to Kristof, a woman dies every minute somewhere in the world from pregnancy or childbirth complications, and 20 times that number suffer [...]

The AP/KTVZ.com examines how after years of strained relationships between the “militaryrun nation” of Myanmar and international donors that led to a large reduction in HIV/AIDS funding, donors are considering reinvesting in the countrys HIV/AIDS programs. According to AP/KTVZ.com, “Myanmar receives only about $3 per capita in aid, compared with $23 for Vietnam and [...]

Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a highly contagious viral infection that can lead to paralysis, breathing problems, or even death. The term poliomyelitis is from the Greek poliós meaning “grey”, myelós referencing the spinal cord, and itis meaning inflammation.
Polio can be classified as either symptomatic or asymptomatic. About 95% of all cases display no [...]