Health

News Hour: When a major outbreak of yellow fever hits, countries need to access vaccine supplies urgently for rapid vaccination campaigns to control spread of the disease. Urban yellow fever can spread rapidly in densely populated...

News Hour: Dr Doussou Touré arrives for work at Coléah Medical Centre. She washes her hands from a bucket set up in front of the building, proceeds to a screening area where her temperature is checked...

News Hour: Sightsavers has teamed up with The World Bank and Imperial College London’s Partnership for Child Development (PCD) to support governments in Africa and Asia to strengthen their national school health and nutrition programmes. The initiative...

News Hour: Most political parties in Australia do not have a clear commitment to tackling the risks of climate change on health and wellbeing, recent polling and policy analysis shows. The Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)...

News Hour: Roche announced today that its new, dedicated high-volume testing immunoassay solution, the cobas e 801 module, is now available for countries accepting the CE Mark. As diagnostic laboratories evolve to meet growing workloads in an...

News Hour: FedEx Express (FedEx), a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, and Orbis International announced on June 16th that they are debuting the third-generation Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. More than six...

News Hour: “The chance of my life is to be born and raised in one of the poorest countries in the world and go to graduate school in one of the richest… It creates for me...

News Hour: On May 20, 1976, Fred Hollows and teams of health workers set out on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program with the aim to eliminate trachoma and other eye conditions in rural and...

News Hour: Twenty-five years after Fred Hollows was named Australian of the Year, The Fred Hollows Foundation will announce another year of record results at its Annual General Meeting in Sydney tonight. Despite ongoing cuts to...

News Hour: Watch Fred Hollows and Dr Sanduk Ruit exchange these excited words, in awe of the transformation they are witnessing. Fred Hollows knew the thrill and joy of freeing someone from avoidable blindness. It simply...