The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has resumed funding of four suspended grants in The Philippines.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, on Thursday reported a sharp decline in the export value of Afghanistan’s opium.

The World Health Organization says it was still too early to declare the H1N1 pandemic over. WHO says the H1N1 flu virus was still spreading globally with several countries in Europe and Central Asia reporting high levels of infections. Patrick Maigua reports from Geneva.

While most world leaders have already gathered here in Copenhagen to hammer out a climate deal by Friday, some key decisions still haven't been made.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more and more civilians are fleeing the troubled Equateur province in the north west of the country.

A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time, today, in Afghanistan, as a campaign to immunize some 3 million children gets underway. The bivalent oral vaccine, known as bOPV, can protect children against the two remaining types of polio.

The World Health Organization says increased financial support for the global campaign against malaria was beginning to pay off with measurable reductions in the disease burden.