Health
AIDS deaths down a third since 2010: UN
HIV-related deaths last year fell to around 770,000 -- some 33 percent lower than in 2010 -- the United Nations said, but ...Hunger on the rise worldwide as 821 million affected, says UN
More than 821 million people suffered from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide last year, the United Nations reported -- the third ...Central African Republic is worst country for food insecurity: WFP
About 40 percent of the population of the perennially unstable Central African Republic faces acute food insecurity, the World Food Programme.Second patient dies of Ebola in Uganda, as death toll climbs in DRC
Uganda recorded its second Ebola fatality after a family contaminated with the virus crossed from neighbouring DR Congo, prompting World Health Organization ...Uganda confirms Ebola case as virus spreads from DRCongo
A five-year-old boy is being treated for Ebola in Uganda, the first case since a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of ...Over 600 people test HIV positive in Pakistan city
Pakistan said over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in the southern Sindh province.Congo Ebola cases hit record for most reported in single day
The woman spent more than a week at home sick before family members tried to take her to an Ebola treatment center ...Disease fears mount for Africa cyclone survivors
Disease is threatening to aggravate the already dire conditions facing millions of survivors following the powerful tropical cyclone which ravaged southern Africa ...Madagascar battles killer measles outbreak
Frangeline is aged two but weighs no more than a four-month-old -- the terrible result of her battle with measles, which is ...Second man seems to be free of AIDS virus after transplant
A London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the "Berlin ...




