35,000 children a day die before their fifth birthday from hunger-related diseases or chronic malnutrition.

In this section, we look at diseases of poverty alongside worldwide epidemics, and how they link to policy and the global economic system.

AIDS

• AIDS -- introduction
• AIDS -- talking points
• The House That Aids Built
• AIDS -- Latin America
• Whole nations at risk from virus
• Primary source of income is associated with differences in HIV risk behaviors
• Debt Relief & AIDS
• Foreign aid not reaching HIV/AIDS programmes
• AIDS in Africa
• In Africa, AIDS Has a Woman's Face
• Health -- Mozambique
• Health -- Zimbabwe
• Rural Haitians Are Vanguard in AIDS Battle
• India: AIDS Fueled by Abuses Against Children
• Why Senegal's bold anti-AIDS program is working
• China gets its first AIDS prevention law
• Positive Alternatives & Organized Action
• Medicine Without Doctors
• Links Between Prison and AIDS Affecting Blacks Inside and Out
• U.S. Policies Contribute to Spread of HIV, Childbirth-, Abortion-Related Deaths Among Women
• Chicago Tribune Examines 'Growing Threat' of HIV/AIDS Among Teenage Girls

Avian Flu

• Thais Make Cheap Generic Drug Against Bird Flu
• Has Time Run Out?
• Bird Flu Blues

Cancer

• Breast Cancer

Diarrhea And Dehydration

• Diarrhea: A Leading Killer of Children
• Community Based Diarrhea Control in Mozambique
• Mexico reduces childhood deaths from diarrheal disease

Malaria

• Malaria -- introduction
• Malaria -- talking points
• History of malaria
• Death By Mosquito

Polio

• Global Programme of Polio Eradication in India

SARS

• Politics of SARS and Other Emerging Diseases - Introduction
• Return of the 'barefoot doctors'

Tuberculosis(TB)

• TB -- introduction
• TB -- talking points
• Why?
• TB Prevalence Rates in China Fall 30% After Introcuction of the "Dots" Strategy