The soaring cost of fuel and basic foods over the past year has left many countries in sub-Saharan Africa unable to adequately fund critical activities, such as health care and the provision of safe drinking water, their leaders told the General Assembly's annual high-level debate today.

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican presidential rival John McCain on Saturday of wanting to gamble with the retirement savings and health care of Americans by subjecting them to the uncertainty of open markets.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Kerala, Sep 15 (IPS) - Kudumbasree (Family Prosperity) is India’s one
success story in getting down to the job of helping poor women
take care of their own basic needs -- from health care and
housing to self-employment.

As energy and the economy consume the political discourse, health care is an issue that can seem to vacillate in importance by the day.

The senatorial race in New Hampshire is emblematic of others in the country, focusing on kitchen-table issues like job security and the cost of gas and health care.

Working Kenyans will soon have to pay medical bills for the unemployed, if a new plan to help the poor access health care is adopted by the Government.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co may shift billions of dollars of health care obligations for retired hourly workers to a trust fund overseen by the United Auto Workers union in 2010, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co may shift billions of dollars of health care obligations for retired hourly workers to a trust fund overseen by the United Auto Workers union in 2010, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

DENVER, Colorado, Aug 28 (IPS) - With Sen. Barack Obama's formal anointing as
the first African American presidential nominee of a major
political party in U.S. history, delegates to the 2008 Democratic
National Convention in Denver say Obama can win in November on
universal issues like the economy and health care.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kidnappers freed the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Somalia on Wednesday but rising insecurity forced Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to close a clinic in Mogadishu that provided essential health care to hundreds of women and children.