The WHO must reform for its own health.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency. To ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms.

The end of the era of generosity? Global health amid economic crisis.

In the past decade donor commitments to health have increased by 200 percent. Correspondingly, there has been a swell of new players in the global health landscape. The unprecedented, global response to a single disease, HIV/AIDS, has been responsible for a substantial portion of this boon.

Sharing H5N1 viruses to stop a global influenza pandemic.

Indonesia's refusal to share samples of H5N1 virus with World Health Organization for most of 2007 is distressing and potentially dangerous for global public health, argue the authors.

Six imprisoned health-care workers in Libya are pawns in a far larger strategic game. The repercussions are enormous.

It is critical that the scientific community recognize what is at stake in the case of the Benghazi Six, says Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Gaps between the rich and the poor. The widening differences in wealth, life expectancy, public health infrastructure and perception of threats, and the consequences for global security.

The widening differences in wealth, life expectancy, public health infrastructure and perception of threats, and the consequences for global security