By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 April 2006 The World Health Organization is urging countries to step up their fight against malaria by making an anti-malaria drug, Artemisinin, available to everyone who nee
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 May 2006 Lee Jong-wook World Health Organization Director General Dr. Lee Jong-wook has died after undergoing surgery over the weekend for a blood clot in his brain. He was 6
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 May 2006 Public Health Experts attending the World Health Assembly say the H5N1 virus in birds is rapidly spreading around the world. The World Health Organization urges nati
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 May 2006 Maroufa, 4, receives polio vaccination in Kabul The World Health Organization is conducting a massive polio immunization campaign along the dangerous Afghan-Pakistan
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 January 2006 Lee Jong-Wook The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Lee Jong-Wook, says the risk of an avian influenza pandemic is real and not exaggerated. Dr.
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 February 2006 The World Health Organization reports Egypt has eliminated indigenous polio and is no longer a source of transmission of the virus. The U.N. agency calls this a
By Paige Kollock Washington, DC 20 January 2006 watch Malaria Treatments report The World Health Organization says the most effective cure for malaria could be in jeopardy, unless their new prescripti
By Margaret Besheer Washington 06 April 2006 Britain's Secretary of Defense says trained, capable Iraqi troops and a broad representative government are the keys to a successful Iraq, as well as the e
By Al Pessin Pentagon 08 December 2006 The second ranking U.S. military commander in Iraq says it might be possible to implement the Iraq Study Group's call for the withdrawal of most U.S. combat forces from Iraq by early 2008. But in a news confere
By Joe Bavier Yamoussoukro 01 March 2006 An unprecedented summit of the principle parties in Ivory Coast's more than three-year-old civil war has ended negotiations after just one day. But, all sides
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 October 2006 Suspected militants who raided an oil facility in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta have released several of the 60 oil workers held since Tuesday. The attackers are believed to have issued a ransom demand. Offi
By Ed Kowalski Washington 18 December 2006 The entertainment world has lost a pioneer and founder of one of the most-important record companies in music history. VOA's Ed Kowalski tells us more about the life and career of Ahmet Ertegun, who died in
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 29 June 2006 Iraq's High Tribunal announced this week that former dictator Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants will go on trial August 21 for the mass killing of tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the 1980s in w
By Phil Mercer Sydney 29 October 2006 Ambassador Christopher Hill The chief U.S. envoy for North Korean affairs says Australia could play a vital role inenforcing U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang that were imposed following its test of a nuclear wea
By Kurt Achin Kaesong, North Korea 28 February 2006 North and South Korea gave the international media their first up close look at a joint industrial complex - hailed as the economic future of the di
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 03 February 2006 Ferry
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 02 March 2006 watch Mental Health report A new U.S. military study finds that more than a third of U.S. veterans of the war in Iraq access mental health services in the
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 28 October 2006 More than two months after hundreds of thousands of liters of toxic waste were dumped in Ivory Coast's main city, a massive cleanup operation is nearing completion. Waste removal experts work to remove hazardous
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 02 November 2006 watch Dead Sea Dying report In the Middle East there is no resource more precious than water. For centuries the peoples of the Middle East have relied on the River Jordan for fresh drinking water, and for wat
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 17 November 2006 watch Congo AIDS report A hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo has a death row aisle for female victims of HIV/AIDS, but most do not even know they are close to death, or even that they are infecte
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