When it comes to helping farmers in impoverished nations, does Canada’s left hand know what its right hand is doing?

The government of Nunavut is “covering up” information indicating that a wave of flu-like illness that is sweeping Nunavut’s communities in recent weeks is actually an epidemic of respiratory syncytial …

A global “landscape analysis” of health information systems in developing countries commissioned by the Bill & Linda Gates Foundation in 2010 praised Belize’s achievement as world-leading.

In the “AIDS exceptionalism” debate, emotions run high, and the options are difficult: Shift some AIDS funding to other care, or find billions in new support.  

G8 nations backed Canada’s plan to improve maternal health in developing countries last week despite the country’s refusal to fund groups that do safe abortions. Three months after Canadian Prime …

Thanks to a small cadre of village volunteers, trained in basic health-care concepts, western Uganda is beginning to see some promising improvements in child health.

Airports in Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia, act as major gateways for infectious diseases, and the federal government must better manage health risks arising from international air travel, warns …

Federal refusal to include Aboriginal groups in the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network — the country’s main national public health advisory body — helped exacerbate pandemic (H1N1) 2009, health experts familiar …

The final report of a government-commissioned investigation into the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Toronto that killed 44 blames hospital downsizing and warns “serious problems persist and much remains to …

In 2005, the Kelowna deal promised to tackle the health gap between Canada’s 1·1 million Aboriginal people and the rest of the country. But since a change of government earlier …