"Do you know that according to the World Health Organization, deaths due to cancer in developing countries have surpassed the deaths due to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined? About 80% of deaths due to cancer worldwide occur in developing countries, and infectious disease related cancers account for about 40% of all cancers in Africa...It is high time therefore that Africa paid attention to this ticking time bomb.

Al Jazeera launched a new global talk show called South 2 North -- the first global talk show based in Africa. The host, Redi Thlabi, talks to intriguing personalities from around the world. In the first episode, available online, Tlhabi talks to best-selling Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy and hears why she thinks that Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi should not be made into icons. 

The Department's Global Medicine's Program reports on its work with the assessment of the pharmacovigilance and drug regulatory systems in Bangladesh.

Global health graduate Zied Mhirsi of Tunisia, will be one of the young leaders featured in a new English series documentary on Al Jazeera called Tutu's Children.  Four special documentaries will follow the exploits of participants in the leadership program Desmond Tutu leads in an attempt to build a new network of African leaders, who are together committed to tackling their countries’ most stubborn problems.Mhirsi, a doctor, who received his MPH degree from UW, returned to Tunisia after graduation and founded a radio show called Tunisia Live that played a pivotal role in the country's