UN Commissioners Aim for Increased Access to Health Commodities - 22 May 2012
UNITED NATIONS, New Yorkmdash;Affordable, life-saving medicines and health supplies with the potential to save millions of lives are not reaching the children and women who most need them.To help change this, members of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children will today review and finalize recommendations to help increase access, reduce costs, and increase demand for 13 products. (Source: UNFPA News)

India's Economic Growth Leaves Human Development in the Dust
Ahead of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India, a coalition of NGOs denounced the gap between the country's growth rate and the rate of poverty, malnutrition and lack of health and sanitation. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)