WHO Fact Sheet: Cholera

This brief report, published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), provides an update on the global efforts to reduce tuberculosis deaths among people living with HIV. At the 2016 United Nations High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, U.N. Member States committed to reducing these deaths by 75 percent by the year 2020. While significant progress has been made—global TB deaths among HIV-positive individuals have fallen by 42 percent since 2010—it has been unevenly…

This case describes Morocco’s successful implementation of a program that lowered the incidence of trachoma, the leading preventable cause of blindness, to less than 10 percent among children under the age of 10. Program tactics included using a combined strategy of surgery, antibiotics, face washing, and environmental change. This case study is part of Millions Saved, a collection of case studies produced by the Center for Global Development that describes successful examples of large-scale efforts…

This case describes the beginning of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, focusing on the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as the disease spread into Guinea, Liberia, and eventually Sierra Leone. It highlights the initial detection of cases and differing organizational perspectives in predicting the epidemic’s eventual impact. The case concludes in April 2014, when WHO announced (incorrectly) that the epidemic was not expected to…