Getting Ireland Moving for World Cancer Day 2018

World TB Day —March 24, 2018

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Women and kidney disease: reflections on World Kidney Day 2018

World Kidney Day and International Women's Day 2018 are commemorated on the same day (March 8), an opportunity to highlight the importance of women's health, and particularly, their kidney health. On its 13th anniversary, World Kidney Day promotes affordable and equitable access to health education, health care, and prevention for all women and girls in the world. In this article, we focus on w...

World TB Day 2018: The Challenge of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

On 24th March, the world commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Over 130 years later, tuberculosis (TB) continues to affect individuals, communities, and entire health systems and economies. Koch unsuccessfully tried to 'cure' TB, and despite major advances in other areas of medicine, control of TB remains elusive- in 2016 T...

World Cancer Day 2011: a world without cancer one day?

World AIDS Day 2013: “Getting to Zero: Ending AIDS”

when UNAIDS put forward its vision of " Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths " , the end of AIDS only existed in an aspirational future. Now people are talking concretely about it. In a report released in July 2013 outlining the United Nations Secretary-General's vision for the next global development agenda, Ban Ki-moon called on all countries to 'realize the ...