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The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is warning there is a high risk that a recent outbreak of polio in Angola could spread to neighbouring countries and urged action to ensure that local children are vaccinated against the disease.

The United Nations health agency today said that while access to treatment for children with HIV has reached a new milestone, many more lives could be saved if more infants started receiving medication earlier.

The international AIDS conference, whic opened yesterday in Vienna, is a biennial affair that has morphed over the years from a mostly scientific confab into an information sharing forum for health and social workers from around the world.

An underground HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is intensifying at an alarming pace, and the issue is being exacerbated by high levels of social stigma holding young people back from seeking treatment, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says in a new report.

The number of people receiving life-saving HIV treatment has soared by more than 1 million to 5.2 million, marking the largest jump ever, but donor contributions for AIDS efforts have flatlined because of the global economic downturn, two new United Nations reports have found.

If you've ever had reason to curse your feet — say, after a day at the mall, an evening in high heels or a lengthy jog — you might keep in mind that they are a whole lot better at doing what we need them to do than a chimp's feet.

Ahead of the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna, Austria, the international medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has launched "The Ten Consequences of AIDS Treatment Delayed, Deferred, or Denied", another damning indictment of international donors back-pedalling on promises of HIV funding.

While a review is underway of how the World Health Organization (WHO) and national authorities handled last year’s outbreak of the H1N1 virus, also referred to as swine flu, medical experts in Egypt have criticized their government for overreacting to the pandemic, provoking unjustified fear and wasting millions of dollars-worth of much-needed public funds.

There's a clinically proven brain fitness training tool that helps older adults reduce their likelihood of being in a car accident.

There is no need to spend hours on a treadmill to become fit, as the key to a longer life could be as simple as taking a gentle stroll for just half an hour a day.