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....
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....
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