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.

Microbiologists are urging that Canada ramp up its surveillance of another strain of bacteria — carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) — by screening Canadians who’ve been hospitalized in the United States, Israel and …

The World Health Organization (WHO) and public health agencies around the world must significantly ramp up screening and surveillance of a new breed of drug-resistant bacteria carrying the gene for …

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 …

Canada’s proposed G8 child and maternal health plan may have ignited a Parliamentary brouhaha over its failure to support funding for abortion but it is also drawing favourable reviews from …

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.

New research reveals that a widely used class of agricultural pesticides is the likely culprit behind the deaths of hundreds of millions of birds. Worse still: Canada continues to market …