New York Times Columnist Calls For Investments In Global Family Planning

Although topics such as AIDS, tsunamis and earthquakes make for “dramatic” and “visceral” news about the developing world, there is “a far more widespread challenge, one that’s also more fixable: the unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. Kristof notes that the birth control pill, “50 years old this month in the [U.S…

Global Fund Releases Latest Impact Data, Projections For Improving Global Health In Next Decade

By 2015, mother-to-child HIV transmission will be virtually eliminated and deaths from malaria and tuberculosis will continue to decline if health investments for the diseases are maintained or scaled up, according to an annual results report published Monday by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Agence France-Presse/Africasia.com reports (3/8)…