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Intensive Anti-H.I.V. Efforts Meet With Mixed Success in Africa Opens in a new window)
Scientists tested a costly approach to curbing the AIDS epidemic: Test everyone in the community, and treat anyone who is infected.
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U.N. Wants More Urgency in AIDS Fight as Gains and Funding Fade Opens in a new window)
The global fight against AIDS is stalling due to lower investment, marginalized communities missing vital health services, and new HIV infections rising in some parts.
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How an Indian Tycoon Fought Big Pharma to Sell AIDS Drugs for $1 a Day Opens in a new window)
Together, an Indian drug maker and international activists had forged an extraordinary alliance, pledging to upend the established global commercial and pharmaceutical order in order to save millions of lives.
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20 Million Children Miss Out on Life-Saving Vaccines, U.N. Warns Opens in a new window)
More than one in 10 children - or 20 million worldwide - missed out last year on vaccines against life-threatening diseases such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus.
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U.N. Calls for Hundreds of Millions in More Aid to Fight Ebola Opens in a new window)
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak could last much longer and cost far more in money and lives unless U.N. member states inject hundreds of millions of dollars now.
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Fake Polio Markers Highlight Risks to Pakistan Vaccination Drive Opens in a new window)
The country is one of only three in the world where polio is endemic, along with neighboring Afghanistan and Nigeria.
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WHO Keeps Key Lung Cancer Drugs Off its Essential Medicines List Opens in a new window)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a biennial revision to its essential medicines list.
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Drug Prices Can Take A Surprising Turn When A Poor Country Gets Richer Opens in a new window)
When a poor country becomes wealthier, it's a good thing, right? Not if the country is trying to buy essential medicines.
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China’s Churning Out Revolutionary Cancer Drugs Much Cheaper Than the U.S. Opens in a new window)
One way to realize Beijing’s dreams of a world-class pharmaceutical industry: low prices
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GSK Public Policy Positions
GSK's position on patents and access to medicines in developing countries.
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Drug Companies Are Focusing on the Poor After Decades of Ignoring Them Opens in a new window)
The pharmaceutical industry once sued to keep AIDS drugs from dying Africans. Now companies boast of their efforts to get medicines to the developing world.
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Expect 100% Hike in Drug Prices, PSN tells Nigerians Opens in a new window)
The Lagos State Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has warned that there will soon be at least 100 per cent increase in drug prices across the country.
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Enhancing Financial Protection Under China’s Social Health Insurance to Achieve Universal Health Coverage
An important goal of China’s health system reforms was to achieve universal health coverage through building a social health insurance system.
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Wellcome Global Monitor
How does the world feel about science and health?
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Progress on Household Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, 2000-2017
1 in 3 people or 2.2 billion people around the world lack safe drinking water.
