See also: AIDS, hunger, women, population
Africa needs funds to fight bird flu — April 2006
Traditional healers boost primary health care — January 2006
‘Children just do not have to die’ — January 2006
Malaria: Disease costs Africa $12 bn a year— July 2005
Africa leads world measles decline — April 2005
Polio: Vaccination drive targets 100 million — April 2005
Africans push to tame
malaria — January 2005
[Box: Africa needs
1 million health workers ]
Tobacco control: 'golden leaf' loses its lustre — October 2004
Polio: Vaccinations resume, as disease still spreads — October 2004
UN mediates polio deadlock in Nigeria — July 2004
Nigeria dispute endangers global polio drive — February 2004 ("new releases")
WHO launches campaign to give life-extending drugs to 3 million with AIDS by 2005 — October 2003 ("new releases")
Victory over river blindness — May 2003
[ Box: Dr. Ebrahim Samba: 'You can tackle anything']
Eradicating tsetse flies from Africa — May 2003
Controversy rages over "GM" food aid — February 2003
WHO urges monitoring of traditional medicine — September 2002
WHO: 'to cure poverty, heal the poor' — April 2002
Vaccination campaign marks progress toward polio eradication — December 2001
Malaria: 'Roll back' campaign launched — July 2000
Drug companies join UN in combating malaria — December 1999
Telemedicine in rural Uganda, interview with Maria Musoke — December 1999
Campaign to kick polio out of Africa — December 1998
Renewed efforts to roll back malaria — November 1998
Major push to eradicate trachoma — November 1998
Special Initiative on Africa: Target:
a stronger health sector — March 1998
[Box 1: With few funds, WHO combats African
maladies]