US Mission Geneva

This year’s World Health Assembly theme of ensuring health’s place in the next generation of global development goals is one that we in the Americas welcome.

A vaccine that might save the lives of more than 400,000 children each year is producing hopeful results in India.

The United States and Britain reaffirmed a commitment to global development in helping to eradicate an array of economic, health and food problems, President Obama says.

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an estimated 5.5 million children worldwide are victims of forced labor and child trafficking. Thousands of children are trafficked in the United States.

Health authorities in Southeast Asia have detected a strain of the malaria-causing parasite that is resistant to the best medicines available to treat the disease.

A new strategy and financial backing bring new energy to the old battle to eradicate crippling polio.

The Obama administration’s budget request for U.S. international aid activities in fiscal year 2014 focuses on food security, maternal and child health, gender equality and poverty reduction through sustainable economic growth.

Early childhood deaths due to malaria are in rapid decline, eight years after a U.S. campaign against the disease began in 15 high-risk countries.

On April 24, U.S. representatives and ECOWAS states will come together to share knowledge, experiences and best practices during a three-day meeting of the West Africa Malaria Task Force in Ghana.