UN effort to end malaria deaths

Call for an end to malaria deaths
The United Nations marks the first World Malaria Day with a campaign to eliminate deaths from the disease.

Agencies target female mutilation
A range of United Nations agencies call for the practice of female genital mutilation to be ended.

Light-wave implant hope for deaf
An implant which works by firing infrared light into the inner ear is being investigated by US researchers.

Cholera outbreak strikes Zimbabwe
Cholera has killed nearly 300 Zimbabweans in recent weeks as the disease spreads and sanitation crumbles, the UN says.

'Superglue' brain op for toddler
The parents of a 17-month-old girl tell how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.