STWR - Share The World's Resources

The number of urban slum-dwellers worldwide has broken the 1 billion mark, making it clear that the urbanization of poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing developing countries today, writes Nasidi Adamu Yahaya.

With progress towards primary health care still slow three decades after the Alma-Ata declaration, an effective alliance of global and country actors is needed to set positive and realistic paths to implement the declaration’s intentions, argues Anthony Seddo.

Welcome to Sicko Nation: Swimming in a toxic soup of 100,000 synthetic chemicals--carcinogens, neurotoxins, hormone disruptors, immune suppressors, excitotoxins...

It’s the deadly calculus of health care in America: Billions of dollars are spent in the name of caring for the sick, yet millions go without the health care they need.

When compared to other developed countries, the U.S. ranks near the bottom on most standard measures of health. Many people assume that this is because the U.S. is more ethnically heterogeneous than the nations at the top of the rankings, such as Japan, Switzerland, and Iceland. 

By the end of the year half of the world's population will be living in cities for the first time in history, the United Nations said in a report released on Tuesday.

The world is used to working together on finance and weapons: now we need a global response to the challenges of the future