With half of the world’s population at risk for malaria, the World Health Organization’s latest global malaria report describes the scope of the problem, outlines successes within some control programs and offers encouragement about prevention and treatment.

The World Health Organization has released a package of priority interventions to help low- and middle-income nations move toward universal access to HIV medications and prevention.

To protect foreign-educated nurses such as Buagas from unethical employment practices, a coalition of stakeholders, including health care organizations, unions, educators and recruiters, in September released a voluntary code of ethics. The code aims to ensure that the growing practice of recruiting foreign-educated nurses to the United States is done in a responsible and transparent manner.