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Posted: 11 Apr 2013 by Irish Forum for Global Health | News A key principle of the IFGH is the belief that health is a basic human right and we strive to achieve equity of … Continue reading "World Health Workers...

Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | News Brendan Shelly’s interest in global health stemmed from a workshop organised by the Student Representative Group of the Irish Forum for Global Health in his school in Donabate last … Continue reading "Compelling Arguments At Leinster Debate...

Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: The death toll of polio vaccine workers killed in a string of attacks in Pakistan climbed again today. One victim died from wounds sustained in a shooting on Wednesday. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News narrates...

Veronica Alebo, a young Burkitt's lymphoma patient, has a large tumor in her abdomen. She receives treatment at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. Photo by Jacqueline Koch. This story is part of a series, Cancer's New Battleground: the...

Photo by Jon Lascher/Partners in Health. The United Nations announced a $2.2 billion initiative Tuesday aimed at curbing the spread of cholera in Haiti over the next 10 years through improved water and sanitation projects. The plan put forward by...

This story is part of a series, Cancer's New Battleground: the Developing World. Above: Indian women participate in a women's march in Mumbai on Monday. Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images. Cervical cancer used to kill more women in the...

This story is part of a series, Cancer's New Battleground, the Developing World. Above, Haitians wait for the doors to open in 2006 at a free clinic in Cange. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western...

Uganda Cancer Institute. Photo by Jacqueline Koch. This story is the first in a five-part series produced by PRI in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The week of Dec. 10, the PBS NewsHour will post one story from the series...