Medicine
The Malaria Donor Score Card
IPN Opinion article
The 25th of April marks Africa Malaria Day when governments, scientists and civil society groups take stock of progress made in fighting the disease and honour lives lost.
Drug-resistant AIDS: The next tsunami
IPN Opinion article
Although billions were pledged for AIDS at the recent G8 meeting, the neglected issue of drug resistance is now starting to simmer ó and it will soon make current financial commitments seem puny, while damaging the economies of countries already ravaged by HIV/AIDS.
WHO's Got its Facts Wrong?
IPN Opinion article
The World Health Organisation makes great sport of taking the pharmaceutical industry to task for its inability to provide everyone in the developing world with the drugs they need. This so-called market failure is being used at negotiations in Geneva this month to bring research and patents under official control, managed by the WHO--but the WHO has trouble managing itself.
The AIDS pandemic: the collision of epidemiology with political correctness
Professor James Chin challenges some conventional wisdoms about the threat posed by HIV/AIDS
Policy threats to health progress
IPN Opinion article
South Africa has defied conventional wisdom to achieve success in its AIDS and malaria programmes. But this good work may be undone by its wider health reforms, which appear to be based more on ideology than commonsense.
Populism versus the poor
IPN Opinion article
Innovation by India's internationally competitive scientists suffers because of protectionist policies of the Government, says Roger Bate
