Health

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...

News Hour: An ambitious global mapping project has revealed it would cost about US$1 billion to eliminate blinding trachoma by 2020, of which US$200-300 million has already been committed, an international conference in Sydney will be...

News Hour: Sightsavers is co-hosting a side event, Fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals through inclusive budgeting, on Tuesday 14 June at the 9th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The...