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One Health Initiative Advances Care for Humans, Animals and the Environment

“One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.”

“One Health implementation will help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.”


Sat, 04/27/2013 - 13:10 — admin

Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures

The drought and famine once again blighting the Horn of Africa brings with it an unwelcome reminder that for all of mankind’s achievements we are yet to eradicate the scourge of poverty or to provide clean water, sanitation or basic health care for the world’s most desperate people.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 18:04 — admin

Access to New Interventions: Implementation Research Key To Access To Disease Interventions

TDR in conjunction with the Ugandan Ministry of Health organized a meeting in Kampala 28-30 June on the use of implementation research (IR) to increase access to improved tools against infectious diseases and map existing and new strategies.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:27 — admin

President's Cancer Panel Releases Report: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now

The President' Cancer Panel Executive Summary states that "Despite overall decreases in incidence and mortality, cancer continues to shatter and steal the lives of Americans.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:53 — admin

United Nations-Backed Global Fund Says Investment In Treatment And Prevention Pays Off

The number of people being treated for HIV/AIDS through resources provided by the United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has risen to more than half a million, while programmes it has supported to distribute insecticide-treated bed nets in malaria-plagued countries are now reaching more than 11 million people, officials reported.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 12:52 — admin

It's not the Bullets, it's the Bacteria

What kills most civilians during wartime? It's not the bullets, or the missiles, or the shrapnel from bombs. It’s unsafe water, lack of food, inadequate medical care, unsafe communities -- the absence of public health.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:13 — admin

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