Madagascar's health ministry reports Tuesday the disease has killed 47 people and says the number of suspected cases is up to 138
Rights agency, citing reports of torture, summary executions and sexual violence, largely blames influx of weapons, foreign fighters
Three-member commission will start collecting first-hand information from victims and other witnesses in Switzerland and Italy next week
A senior UN official says poor countries in the Sahel are forced to spend more on security and less on humanitarian needs
The WHO estimates for every dollar invested in water and sanitation, more than $4 is returned in the form of reduced health care costs
New initiatives in West Africa reduce cost, time and expertise required for analysis
Spending on young people spurs nations’ economic development, new report says
Data show more than half of all drowning deaths happen to people under age 25, with highest rates among children under five years of age
UN General Assembly is expected to vote on resolution Tuesday to refer North Korea to International Criminal Court regarding rights violations
With country approaching 5,600 infections, move by UNICEF is part of effort to bring treatment facilities closer to where people live
Interviewees say executions, amputations, lashings, displays of mutilated bodies occur regularly
World Health Organization says great care must be taken to ensure safety of products before any testing is done on humans
Despite goal to eradicate disease by 2015, WHO reports about 145,700 children died from it in 2013, an increase of 23,700 from previous year
World Health Organization issues new guidelines, warns that people mainly in developing countries are dying from use of dangerous fuels, traditional cookstoves in home
International gathering next week will try to devise strategies for improving nutritional status of hundreds of millions of people around the world
UNHCR says it will have to make some very difficult choices over who will receive aid this winter and who will not
New burial protocols are in line with the cultural and religious beliefs of Ebola-infected communities in West Africa
International Organization for Migration says sex trafficking may contribute to rise of women attempting journey to Italy
World body warns growing burden of chronic disease will create economic, other hardships for national health systems
Activists condemn what they say is worsening abuse in Egypt, and to investigate killings of over 1,000 peaceful protesters in 2013
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