Dr Mukesh Kapila; Undersecretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies & Co-director of CIGI / IFRC project As the MDG 2015 deadline looms closer, could we not aspire to do more, do better and reach further, by shaping a new development model...
Seth Berkley is CEO, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), which gave a record $165 million to India to induct the pentavalent vaccine into the universal immunisation programme. Penta combines protection against DPT, Hepatitis B and, for the first time, Hib, the leading cause...
Pushpa Narayan, The Times of India CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will soon pay mothers who get their newborns vaccinated as per the immunization schedule. Under the Muthulakshmi Reddy Scheme, each pregnant woman will get a smart card with her medical details. The health department will deposit...
UN News Centre 1 August 2011 – The United Nations and its partners are promoting the use of all possible means of communication, including social networking, blogs and even flash mobs, to get the message out on the benefits of breastfeeding beyond clinics and delivery rooms...
Press Information Bureau, Government of India The Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that several new initiatives have helped India achieve improved coverage and quality of immunization. Shri Azad was addressing the High Level Ministerial Meeting of South East...
UNICEF NEW YORK/GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in...
Katy Migiro, AlertNet NAIROBI (AlertNet) – Drug shortages will hamper a mass vaccination campaign due to begin in Kenya on Monday following a surge in measles cases among Somali refugees and neighbouring communities, a medical charity says. Read more....
NPR News New Zealand is experiencing the largest outbreak of measles in over a decade. Public health officials there say the virus is spreading faster than they can quarantine the infected. In England and Wales, officials report more measles cases so far this year than in...
Sarah Boseley, Guardian.co.uk Around 40 million children under the age of five live in what Save the Children is calling "healthcare deserts", according to its new report. They don't get basic vaccines as babies and there is no health worker on hand to supply the oral...
Andrea Gay, The Huffington Post As families pack up for their summer trip abroad, or the kids go off to camp, public health officials around the world have this warning: Everyone should be fully vaccinated against measles, or risk infection. Read more....
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
