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A West Africa meningitis outbreak in 2009-2010 killed over 900 people

Michel Kazatchkine has been with the Global Fund for ten years

Any job that involves breaking up rock or concrete or brick can potentially expose workers to dangerous silica dust, and last year it looked like the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration was about to put stricter controls in place to limit this health hazard.

Several U.S. government-funded HIV/AIDS clinical research sites in Africa will join other collaborators in an ongoing clinical trial testing an investigational tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in infants at risk for TB infection.

UNICEF supports polio immunization campaign in Chad

Broken water and sanitation infrastructure is being blamed for the outbreak of typhoid in the Zimbabwean capital Harare. In this 2007 file photograph raw sewage flows into the street. In 2008 a year-long cholera epidemic began.

Ketamine has been used as an anesthetic for decades. It's also a widely popular but illegal club drug known as "Special K." When administered in low doses, patients report a rapid reduction in depression symptoms.

A midwife attending to an expectant mother in a health centre in northern Uganda.

Shiga toxin (green) in the intestine. Image by S. Schuller, Wellcome Images. All rights reserved by Wellcome Images.

Experts recommend that older women have regular bone density tests to screen for osteoporosis. But it's been unclear how often to repeat the tests.