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In a new partnership coordinated by the U.S. Government through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leaders from the private sector are joining forces with the public sector and non-governmental organizations to revolutionize HIV prevention for youth through the Partnership for an HIV-Free Generation (HIV-Free Generation).

Most developing countries have been unable to introduce and scale up use of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear test because it must be performed at specialized laboratories, and confirmation of pre-cancer requires visit to a specialist and further tests. But Ghana and Thailand are proving that a way out exist.

UK government has announced a £6 billion on improving health systems and services, in poor countries up to 2015 while an African NGO blasts Japan’s lackdaisaical approach on the AIDS issue in Africa.

Tanzanian Health workers have embarked on a new campaign of diagnosing genitally mutilated infants when they attend clinic on routine basis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Tuesday announced the launch of a Joint Programme on Cancer Control, aimed at strengthening and accelerating efforts to fight cancer in the developing world.

Paul Matiku, Executive Director of Nature Kenya (BirdLife in Kenya) has faulted Kenya government’s move to approve a sugar company’s decision that would turn 20,000 hectares of the pristine Tana Delta into irrigated sugarcane plantations.

A new initiative to assure and improve the quality of pharmacology and in vitro data from laboratories investigating patient responses to antimalarial drugs has been launched by the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN).