Circumcision cuts HIV rates in heterosexual men by 50% in two African studies (BBC) The White House gets ready to host an international summit on malaria. Kaiser Networks is providing a simultaneous webcast. (Globalhealthreporting.org) Better, less expensive diagnostic tests could...

Empowering women saves children’s lives as well. That’s the conclusion of this year’s State of the World’s Children report from UNICEF. Basically, women as a group are more likely to rank children’s needs much higher in their list of priorities...

Whenever we focus on only one disease at a time, we risk losing sight of the bigger picture of what makes people sick. Case in point: new research, published in Science, shows that malaria and HIV fuel each other. The...

Extremely drug-resistant TB reported in Japan for the first time. (Kyodo News) Diabetes toll increasing rapidly in developing countries. Worldwide costs could hit $300 billion by 2025. (Reuters) Researchers combine Google satellite imagery with community health surveys to create a...

More bad news for efforts to create an effective AIDS vaccine. Turns out that in the first few weeks of an HIV infection, the virus damages the immune system more thoroughly than anyone had expected. The reason no one really...