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11 Facts About Teens and STIs

Nineteen million new STI infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.

Polio scare invades poor countries

Since April 2008, outbreaks have been found in 10 countries beyond the 4 in which polio is considered endemic - Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.

The new global medical crisis: XDR-TB

Extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis is a new and deadly mutation of tuberculosis which arises when common tuberculosis goes untreated or standard TB drugs are misused.

11 Facts about Polio

Facts about this paralysis-causing disease

11 Facts about Tuberculosis

Decades after the first antibiotic-based treatments appeared, TB continues to thrive.

Terms you should know about malaria

Malaria glossary

Background on Malaria

Malaria is a crisis but there is hope.

11 Facts About Malaria

Scary facts about malaria

11 Scary Facts about Malaria

Terms You Should Know about Malaria