Tag Archives : infectious diseases

As the saying goes, ‘‘no good deed goes unnoticed’’, it could very well be the reason why both Carlos Slim and Bill Gates keep getting richer day by day. Both, considered to be two of the world’s wealthiest men have been known to be donating generous amounts of money to healthcare concerns across the globe. Now, Mr. Gates and Mr. Slim announced [...]

Communicable diseases hamper the development of the poorest countries. This is the essence of a study conducted by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) that highlights the lack of attention to such diseases, making them turn into epidemics. Complacency towards the possibility of epidemics is the crux of the study [...]