Topic: World Health Organization

Change Agent Two extraordinary African women tell their stories

As disabled women refugees, Dahabo Hassan Maow and Aitm Caroline Ogwang faced tremendous obstacles. But they've overcome every one and now advocate for other women in need.

Could India's polio eradication success story be a model for its other health issues?

Change Agent EcoZoom builds a market for clean cookstoves in developing economies

Is birth the 'old-fashioned way' on its way out in Mexico?

Were chemical weapons used in Syria? UN team poised for probe.

Lake Erie: big algae problems, more to come

A spiritual approach to anxiety and depression

Was SARS fallout a lesson for China in global citizenship?

Exporting Grandma? Some German elderly head abroad for nursing care

Is Indonesia, one of big tobacco's last frontiers, closing?

Opinion Iran nuclear talks: Look to cooperation of US-Iran scientists

Change Agent Expat Syrian doctors help bind up the wounds of war

Africa Monitor Were health care workers in Nigeria murdered for doling out polio vaccines?

Campaign against female genital mutilation gaining ground support, results

Can India sweep up its 'soot' pollution challenge?

In Gear Beijing to scrap 180,000 polluting cars

Heavy smog in Beijing prompts uncharacteristic government transparency (+video)

Interest in Jordan's parliamentary elections goes up in smoke

5 female teachers killed: Pakistan aid work imperiled

Africa's energy consumption growing fastest in world

2012's 'good news' stories

Progress watch 2012: Smart phones, jobs returning to America, and war crimes trials

Syria: rebels fight Palestinian pro-Assad group (+video)

Violence against women in Latin America: Is it getting worse?

Gazans flee border areas, fearing Israeli ground invasion