About 5.7 million people in South Africa are living with HIV, including approximately 280,000 children under the age of 15
UN refugee agency says Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and UK are planning to send Iraqi citizens to Baghdad this week
Philip Alston criticizes what he calls illegal targeted killings and calls on United States to halt CIA drone killings
Authors of global study on secret detentions linked to counterterrorism calling for independent, transparent investigation
UN agency says it is impossible to maintain well-functioning health system if necessary supplies not available
Fears growing that sex trafficking, increased drinking, drug use could lead to further spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa
UN agencies report some five million children in Zimbabwe are at risk of getting measles
The United Nations reports more than half the world's population is living in urban areas, increasing pressure on resources
World Meteorological Organization says countries can adapt to climate change if alerted to extreme weather events
193-member World Health Assembly agrees to work for global eradication of measles; says long, determined commitment by states needed
A watchdog group recorded more than 2,000 incidents of counterfeit medicines in 2009, an increase of more than nine percent from 2008
ICRC says humanitarian response to emergency situation different from approaches needed in prolonged periods of armed conflict
Ellen Sirleaf Johnson urging countries to make free health care available to poor
But, Director-General Margaret Chan says government still faces numerous challenges
Global Fund says through public/private partnership at least 3,600 lives saved every day, preventing thousands of new infections
World Health Organization says seven cases are first importation of disease in region since Europe certified as polio-free in 2002
World Food Program is distributing 20,000 metric tons of food, enough to feed 1.3 million people for six weeks
World Health Organization issues latest UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water report
UNICEF appeals for donors to keep schools open for 19,000 children in camps for internally displaced people
United Nations Children's Fund says 103 children died when their schools collapsed and 12 teachers were killed
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