Monthly cost of US$1-2 per person could ensure access to basic package of 201 essential medicines
Strong global and national leadership is needed as lack of access to essential medicines threatens…
Browsing: The Lancet
More than 15 million children in high-mortality hotspots in sub-Saharan Africa
Stanford University researchers have determined that more than 15 million children are living in high-mortality…
Global Burden of Disease study 2015 assesses the state of the world’s health
Medical journal, The Lancet publishes the most up-to-date analysis on the state of the world’s…
Global goal to reduce maternal deaths threatened by lack of access to quality care: study
Unequal access to health services and poor quality care for pregnant women is hampering progress…
Asthma pill ‘promising’ for people with severe symptoms
An experimental pill could help adults with severe asthma, an early study in The Lancet…
Filarial worm infections double the risk of HIV infection
Since the start of the HIV epidemic, there have been speculations as to why HIV…
Lack of transgender healthcare curbs development
Failure to provide adequate healthcare for transgender people is holding back development in Africa and…
Study says a cocktail of UV and Vitamin B zaps malaria in donor blood
Blood donated by unknowing malaria carriers can be made safer with UV radiation and Vitamin…
Study says dengue affects 58 million, costs $9 billion a year
About 58.4 million contracted symptomatic dengue in 2013 and more than 13,000 died, resulting in…
Global health funding becoming scarce
People wasting away from AIDS or succumbing to malaria may become an increasingly common sight…