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Malaria And Preventable Disease

At least one million deaths occur every year due to malaria.

Malaria is just one of a number of preventable diseases that claims millions of lives every year because poor countries do not have the money necessary to deal with them.


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.... More

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.... More

If there is a cure for a disease there is no good reason for millions of people to die from it.