The safety practices of major artificial intelligence companies, such as Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Meta, are "far short of emerging global standards," according to a new edition of Future of Life Institute's AI safety index released on Wednesday.

This year’s report provides a critical and up-to-date snapshot of efforts to control and eliminate malaria across 80 countries. The report also presents the threat posed by antimalarial resistance and its impact.

Americans gave $4 billion to nonprofits on GivingTuesday in 2025, an increase from the $3.6 billion they gave in 2024.

Impact Investing Conference in London UK is the Impact Investing World Forum (ESG - IIWF) 2022 as one of leading social impact ESG investment events 2022 for ESG Funds in UK Europe.

AI can’t benefit the world if tech leaders overlook 85% of humanity in the Global South, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.

Despite more than four decades of progress, HIV remains a global health challenge, with 1·3 million new infections a year. The six-paper Series on Sustainable HIV Prevention in Africa argues that…

Millions of children’s lives are at stake—without action, global aid cuts could lead to more child deaths over the next 20 years. But that future isn’t inevitable. If we act now—by getting proven, low-cost tools to the places that need them most—we can save millions of lives. And we don’t have to stop there. Within a generation, we can build a world where the diseases that once terrified parents are ancient history.

Artificial Intelligence could widen gaps between developed and developing countries, a U.N. report said on Tuesday, calling for policy measures to limit the impact.

On World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on governments and partners to rapidly expand access to new WHO-approved tools including lenacapavir (LEN) to drive down infections and counter disruption to essential health services caused by cuts to foreign aid.

UNITED NATIONS, December 1 (IPS) - As we gather in Doha for the High-Level Meeting on “Forging Ambitious Global Partnerships for Sustainable and Resilient Graduation of Least Developed Countries,” the stakes could not be higher. A record number of fourteen countries-equally divided between Asia and Africa are now on graduation track. Graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category is a landmark national achievement—a recognition of hard-won gains in income, human development, and resilience. Yet, for too many countries, this milestone comes with new vulnerabilities that risk...

UNDP’s flagship report, The Next Great Divergence: Why AI May Widen Inequality Between Countries, highlights how these pressures are playing out most visibly in Asia and the Pacific, a region marked by vast differences in income, digital readiness, and institutional capacity. The report outlines practical pathways for countries to harness AI’s opportunities while managing its risks in support of broader human development. 

The Global Program for Improving Public Administration Performance is the World Bank Group's set of analytical and operational engagements, and global partnerships, on public administration reform.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) held its Eighth Replenishment Summit today in Johannesburg, South Africa, co-hosted by the governments of the Republic of South Africa and the United Kingdom on the margins of the G20 Leaders’ Summit. Despite one of the most turbulent geopolitical and economic years in recent memory, partners around the world pledged US$11.34 billion to sustain the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, save millions more lives, and strengthen systems for health.

South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their own AI capabilities.

Despite U.S. boycotts and geopolitical strain, South Africa secures a hard-won G20 consensus — though many describe the commitments as “holding the line” as opposed to driving real change.