Infectious diseases

By David Bryden, Stop TB Officer, RESULTS This post originally appeared in the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership Blog For many people, tuberculosis is a dirty word associated with poverty and poor living conditions. And when a patient is contagious, there is a risk to others. All of this can...

By Kelly Willis, Accordia Global Health Foundation Outbreaks of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Africa’s Great Lakes region have claimed hundreds of lives in the last 20 years, but thanks to the courageous efforts of United States government-supported frontline health workers like Brenda Picho, an...

By: Lisa Bos, World Vision Photo Credit: Abby Metty/World Vision Just a few months after starting to work for World Vision, I was able to make my first trip to see our programs in action. My country of choice was Zambia, for several reasons: it’s an English-speaking country (important when the...

By Joan Holloway, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care As we approach World AIDS Day tomorrow, the inspiration of health workers like Dr. Andrew Ocero comes to my mind. Andrew served as the director of clinical services at the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS Tuberculosis Programme...

By: Lisa Meadowcroft, AMREF Photo Credit: AMREF The final segment of the presidential debates is over. Unfortunately, not much was said about the importance and impact of US aid to developing countries. We all know that the global economic climate is tough and it’s unreasonable to expect any...

By: Congressman Robert Dold Representing Illinois' 10th Congressional District. In the United States, polio was successfully eradicated in 1977. For years, this disease plagued the world and took the lives of countless children, and left many others disabled. Today, because of increased government...

By: Joan Holloway, IAPAC The 19 th International AIDS Conference, held in Washington, DC last week, was attended by nearly 30,000 health care providers, policy makers, researchers, press and grassroots caregivers. The overwhelming message from the conference was one of hope that someday, in the not...