US Mission Geneva

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addressed the World Medical Association during the 65th World Health Assembly and called attention to the importance of investing in Women’s Health.

Everyone has a basic right to health care. This is a principle that all people should share and all nations should strive for.

Women make up half the population, but when it comes to health, women have been underserved or left out.

Our coordinated efforts make it possible to successfully address shared public health challenges. From increasing prevention of diseases such as polio and heart disease, to conducting lifesaving research, to strengthening our humanitarian response and protection of vulnerable and marginalized populations, all of our efforts are enhanced through our partnership in this body.

High blood pressure afflicts one in three adults worldwide, putting them at greater risk of heart disease and stroke, the report finds.

Improving malaria diagnosis in the developing world may get some help from an unlikely source. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have developed a computer game that could use the power of online crowdsourcing to identify the parasites that cause malaria, one of the greatest killers of Africa’s children.

The U.S. Mission and the Kenyan Mission to the UN and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) were pleased to co-host a roundtable discussion ahead of the World Health Assembly in May.

Children with tuberculosis (TB) often go undiagnosed because they lack access to health care or because the health care workers they see lack training to detect the symptoms of TB in this young age group.

The United States joins the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), the World Health Organization and a host of other players in recognition of World Cancer Day February 4, an event to raise awareness of one of the leading causes of death worldwide.