Celebrated each year on October 15th, Global Handwashing Day brings more than 200 million people together, in dozens of countries around the world, to promote one of the most effective ways to reduce the spread of disease. Handwashing with soap is the most effective and inexpensive way...
National Action Day! Call Congress to Protect Poverty-Focused Foreign Assistance! Join activists from around the U.S. and tell Congress not to cut life-saving foreign assistance! On September 26th, grassroots activists across the U.S. will mobilize for a national call-in day. Members of Save the Children, Bread for the...
Manuel Moreno and Kyle O’Donoghue, UNICEF DADAAB, Kenya, 17 September 2011 – About six months ago, Kenya was one of the first countries in Africa to introduce the pneumococcal vaccine, and children now have access to this life-saving intervention through routine immunization in the Dadaab refugee...
Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times Deaths of infants and young mothers continue to decline around the world, but nearly not as quickly as the world’s health ministers hoped when they set targets in 2000, according to an analysis released Monday by University of...
Orin Levine, The Huffington Post If you're an adrenaline junkie and you want to pursue a health career, you're probably better served by becoming an emergency room doctor than an epidemiologist or researcher. In these careers, you may work a long time for uncommon rewards and...
Sarah Boseley's Global Health Blog Chad and Somalia are the riskiest places in the world to fall sick if you are a child. Switzerland and Finland are the safest. That's the conclusion of an index produced by Save the Children, which ranks 161 countries based on...
Harold Mandel, The Examiner The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is described on the foundation website as is a family foundation which is driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family. It is the position of the Gates family that science and technology have...
Brian Greenwood, David Salisbury, and Adrian V. S. Hill, The Royal Society Vaccines have made a major contribution to global health in recent decades but they could do much more. In November 2011, a Royal Society discussion meeting, ‘New vaccines for global health’, was held in...
Lydia Polgreen, NYTimes KALDARI, India — Ankaji Bhai Gangar, a 49-year-old subsistence farmer, stood in line in this remote village until, for the first time in his life, he squinted into the soft glow of a computer screen. Read more....
Ruby Leo, AllAfrica.com Yamoussoukro — Nigeria has called on the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI) to encourage and support African countries in manufacturing immunization vaccines. Read more....
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
