UN report predicts population decline but increased life expectancy for...
The UN's Population Division published on 26 February the 2002 Revision of World Population Prospects. The report forecasts for Europe a negative population growth, a decline in the number of children...
View ArticleEU-India free trade deal ‘will hurt AIDS patients’
A new Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and India could make it more difficult for the world's poorest patients to access antiretroviral drugs, according to humanitarian aid group,...
View ArticleGreece reintroduces forced HIV testing
A controversial measure that allows the police to detain people and force them to be tested for HIV has been reinstated by the new Greek health minister, Adonis Georgiadis.
View ArticleEU pressed to do more to combat AIDS in Eastern Europe
AIDS death rates in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have soared in the last decade while the EU continues to put the brunt of its funding for treatment and prevention in developing nations,...
View ArticleHealth and Development: What role for the EU?
African governments are increasingly investing in healthcare, but their progress in preventing infectious diseases could be set back without financial support from the EU and other donors.
View ArticleBeating AIDS worldwide, NGOs still alarmed
According to the UN, AIDS-related deaths and further infections are on the decline worldwide. However, NGOs worry that foreign aid will be cut because of the global economic crisis. EurActiv France...
View ArticleWe are the ‘agents of change’, says volunteer
Pauline Kibo, currently specialising in institutional capacity building in the areas of health and HIV/AIDS, shared her experiences, with entertaining and lively examples of things volunteers like her do.
View ArticleAs overseas money dries up, Indonesia develops its own vaccines
SPECIAL REPORT: Indonesia is developing its own vaccines to fight infectious diseases because funds from the EU and other development agencies to its health sector are drying up. EurActiv reports from...
View ArticleCancer is the poor parent of development aid
SPECIAL REPORT: Long considered a disease of rich countries, cancer is no longer sparing Africa, where, to general indifference, the number of deaths is soaring.
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Vaccine R&D leaders
Vaccination may be the most effective public health intervention of all time. This is especially true in developing countries, where many families can’t find or afford health care when they get sick....
View ArticleEthiopian health minister: We will discuss EU support, but we take no...
Ethiopia is the champion of country ownership in development. A program designed in Brussels may not necessarily fit into the local context in Africa. This is why Ethiopia doesn’t accept prescriptions...
View ArticleAndriukaitis: Ebola highlights Africa’s health challenges
The Ebola: From Emergency to Recovery conference, being held by the European Commission today (3 March), provides an important opportunity to plan for the long term recovery and resilience of affected...
View ArticleDrug-resistant TB threatens to kill 75 million people by 2050
Over the next 35 years, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis will kill 75 million people and could cost the global economy a cumulative $16.7 trillion (€15.3 trillion) - the equivalent of the European...
View ArticleWhat world leaders can do in September to improve the lives of the poorest
When world leaders meet in September to adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will make a strong case that health goals should be a top priority, writes...
View ArticleWHO records highest number of new HIV cases in Europe ever
Over 142,000 people were diagnosed with HIV in Europe in 2014. This is the highest number in a single year to be reported since the 1980s, says the World Health Organisation (WHO).
View ArticleThe Dutch have a special responsibility with the Global Goals
The Dutch are in the unique position to both begin and end the EU’s path towards the fulfilment of the Global Goals, writes Tamira Gunzburg.
View ArticleUNITAID: Health spending in developing countries brings a ‘five-fold return’
Access to new treatments for the big pandemics in Africa has improved, thanks to falling prices, and the ending of medical patents, Philippe Duneton told EurActiv France.
View ArticleUS and EU protest UN decision to bar LGBT groups from AIDS conference
The United States and the European Union are protesting against a UN decision to bar at least 20 non-governmental groups from taking part in a major AIDS conference next month.
View ArticlePreventative drugs paving the way in fight against HIV
New drugs intended to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS were one of the stars of a medical conference held last year in Vancouver. This year’s edition will outline whether they are a viable treatment....
View ArticleControlling the AIDS epidemic: Lessons learnt from six countries
While HIV/AIDS still claims too many lives and causes suffering to millions of affected people and their loved ones across the world, substantial progress has been recorded to put an end to the...
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