There is a suspected but not yet scientifically proven  link  between Zika and microcephaly and, in adults, between Zika and  Guillian -Barré Syndrome, a neurological condition that sometimes leads to temporary paralysis.

So emphatic, but still open to question.  Maybe this is intended to influence the UK parliamentary debate, but it's confusing.   

It’s not the French government, but the Minister for Digital Stuff.  French...

Delivering basic health services to border populations is a challenge confronted by developing nations around the world, and Ethiopia is no exception. At the farthest reaches of its territorial boundaries, Ethiopia faces the daunting task of providing health care to...

Stopping all polio transmission by the end of 2016 will require enhanced security for immunization campaigns and devising ways to vaccinate children in increasingly complicated settings, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication initiative argues...

 Over three and a half days more than 1,000 participants from 75 countries and more than 400 organizations focused on several key issues at the heart improving maternal-newborn health services globally: ensuring care is patient-focused; integrating programs to better...

Leaders at the Group of 20 conference on Monday agreed on language pledging not to conduct cyber-enabled economic espionage. The agreement is not legally binding, but it may give countries justification for responding to economically motivated cyber espionage in the future....

Across swathes of eastern Ethiopia, there’s no water to be found. The wells are dry and the carcasses of livestock litter the fields.  Entire communities are migrating from Afar region, on the border with Eritrea and Djibouti. Local NGOs in one district of Amhara...

A modest cement building with a corrugated tin roof, the inside is plastered with colorful posters promoting free post-rape care and the importance of protecting yourself from HIV and STIs. 

On September 28, 2015, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosted a major international conference on global polio eradication, bringing together top experts from around the world to discuss key...

Working together to expand pharmaceutical research agendas, improve the access of vulnerable populations to quality health care, and encourage decision-makers to tackle tough social problems, the United States and Mexico have an opportunity to eliminate the shared challenge...

Although circumstances are less than ideal, the World Health Organization’s immunization advisory panel recommends that countries move forward with a worldwide switch in oral polio vaccines (OPV) in April 2016. While a vaccine considered important to the switch...

Today the European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidated the ‘Safe Harbor’ agreement. This agreement allowed the European Commission (EC) to designate individual U.S. companies as having ‘adequate’ privacy protections in place despite the fact that the U.S., as a...