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The Australian government on Thursday announced that it will write off Indonesian commercial debt worth 75 million Australian dollars, or $58.7 million, under the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s Debt2Health, AFP/Google.com reports.

The WHO on Thursday released details about the three H1N1 (swine flu) virus samples sent to drug makers this week for use in the development of an H1N1 vaccine.

PLoS Medicine Editorial Discusses Worldwide Sexual Health Policy Efforts Policy efforts to promote sexual health worldwide must be systematically integrated and tailored to individual at risk groups in order to effectively reduce the high morbidity and mortality from sexually transmitted infections, according to a PLoS Medicine editorial. Lawmakers and religious leaders…

‘Committed’ U.S. Leadership Can Help Prevent Millions of Childhood Deaths in Developing Countries Every day, thousands of children in developing countries die from pneumonia, diarrhea and other preventable diseases, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Save the Children’s Survive to 5 campaign chair William Frist writes in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution…

An estimated 33,000 of the total 5.5 million workers in Vietnam’s fishery sector, or about 0.59%, were living with HIV in 2008, according to a survey released Tuesday by Vietnam’s fishery program, VNA/VOV News reports.

Global health specialists on Tuesday at the Global Health Council 2009 conference in Washington, D.C., hailed the success of Bangladesh’s oral rehydration therapy (ORT) and immunization programs, which have played a major role in reducing the country’s child mortality rate, the New Nation reports.

Scientists on Tuesday kicked off a Phase III clinical trial of a malaria vaccine – the final stage in pre-approval testing – in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, Nature News reports.

While Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer is still being considered for a senior role in the Obama administration, Farmer has been appointed chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine – Jeffrey Flier, the medical school’s dean, said on Wednesday – the Boston Globe reports.

Vaccine makers on Wednesday began receiving H1N1 (swine flu) virus seed strains, a key ingredient for producing an H1N1 vaccine, the Canadian Press/Google.com reports.

Pakistan health officials on Wednesday announced a three-day nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign targeting the children of internally displaced persons camps.