Global Health Council

03.06.2005 After two decades of conflict and with much of the country’s population living in remote areas, the majority of Afghanis do not have access to health care. Aid workers and non-governmental organizations are teaming up to improve health care in rural regions of the country.

19.05.2005 This year's conference focuses on “Health Systems: Putting Pieces Together.” In resource-poor settings the health challenges are immense, and the systems in place for care and treatment are often overwhelmed by the burden of disease, lack of funding and weak governance. The conference focuses on how to transform the future for the world’s poorest by building systems with the capacity to meet their needs.

17.05.2005 From children abandoned in the streets to shoeshine boys struggling to find a customer and young girls selling their bodies for food and a few pennies, the effects of the AIDS pandemic are visible everywhere in Ethiopia’s capital. Five years ago, social worker Yewoinshet Masresha founded the Hope for Children organization to provide more than just food and shelter for these orphans.

11.05.2005 One of the by-products of the AIDS epidemic sweeping many African nations is the loss of knowledge; for example, with no one to teach them, rural children orphaned at a young age might never learn to farm. But the UN agricultural agency is now taking many of these children under its wings, teaching farming, business, and life skills to ensure another generation is not lost.

10.05.2005 The World Bank should play a more central role of leadership in promoting universal access to reproductive health as a necessary, efficient and just means of achieving all the Millennium Development Goals, according to a new report from the Global Health Council.