The private sector can and should play an important role in public health, but it remains to be seen whether or not the benefits that have arisen from the AMFm could have been achieved through alternative mechanisms and potentially at lower cost.

Leadership is a wonderful thing, but it is truly found when it is tested, and on that count malaria leadership has failed.

Since there is no demand for dangerous medicine, international action has a far greater chance of success than the war against narcotics.

When making the decision whether or not to reelect OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, Chileans should consider whether Mr. Insulza, who has failed to defend democratic principles in Latin America, is fulfilling the essential mission of the OAS.

A review of Pedro Sanjuan's The UN Gang (Doubleday, 2005).

The United Nations General Assembly is in the midst of its 62nd session, and the influence of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the G77 states (an intergovernmental economic organization of 130 developing countries within the UN) continues to feature prominently in the international political arena. In...

Recognizing "statehood" does not mean U.N. membership, but it would nonetheless be a major Palestinian success. A resolution recognizing a Palestinian "state" could also declare its boundary to be the 1967 borders (in actuality, merely the 1949 armistice lines), with or without President Obama's caveat about "agreed upon swaps" of land.

Putting the treaty against counterfeit medicines under the auspices of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime is on balance with a poor idea. WHO is, for now, still the best institution under which to negotiate and achieve a treaty for improving the quality of medicines.