Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 29, 2011 (IPS) - A scientific alliance in which developing countries are playing a key role has taken on the challenge of producing paediatric AIDS drugs, an area that is no longer a priority for pharmaceutical companies because mother-to-child...
ABC News Pneumonia kills more young children than anything else. Watch the video here....
Anahad O'Connor, The New York Times In a new report, a panel of scientists assembled by the Institute of Medicine reviewed the risks of some of the most common vaccines. The panel found no evidence that a popular vaccine causes autism, a subject that has ignited...
Writing in the British Medical Journal, UK and Pakistani experts assessed 43 studies involving 200,000 children, and found deaths were cut by 24% if children were given the vitamin. Read more....
IRIN MWINGI, 25 August 2011 (IRIN) - A mix of illiteracy, cultural practices, poverty and institutional challenges is compounding already high drought-related child malnutrition levels in parts of Kenya. Read more....
Newswise, Philadelphia Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University (please embed ), among other institutions, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have developed single vaccines to protest against both rabies and the Ebola virus. Read more....
Jill Braden Balderas, PRI's The World, PBS At a crowded public hospital in eastern Uganda, Jane Akutu sits on a wooden bench. She cradles her infant son, Daniel. “He’s feeling hot,” she says. “His stomach is paining him.” Read more....
The Guardian, Nigeria The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has identified four major challenges that need overcoming, to ensure successful introduction of new vaccines. They are cold chain capacity, funding sustainability, poor community ownership, and low technical/human resource capacity at the local government level. Read more....
IRIN Global, Humanitarian News and Analysis GENEVA, 10 August 2011 (IRIN) - The World Health Organization has launched a web-based information system it hopes will help prevent millions of people from suffering various forms of malnutrition, ranging from under-nutrition to obesity, every year. Read more....
Gary Darmstadt , Nada Dugas, Impatient Optimists, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation For 6 years, teams from Pampers, UNICEF and partners have been working together closely to fight a deadly disease – tetanus - that is relatively unknown to the developed world. This year, the fight...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
