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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...

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...

Adam Nossiter, The New York Times WATERLOO, Sierra Leone — The paramedic’s eyes were bloodshot, his features drawn. Pregnant women jammed into the darkened concrete bunker, just as they had yesterday and would tomorrow. The increase in patients had been fivefold, or tenfold. The exhausted paramedic...

Dr K Zaman, The Daily Star Every year, hundreds of thousands of children in Bangladesh are brought to the hospitals because of a simple disease diarrhoea with a devastating impact. Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea and one of the most easily preventable public...

Haffiya Elyas and Zuleikha Abdel Raziq, Sudan Vision Khartoum - Presidential Advisor Dr. Bilal Ahmed Osman yesterday officially announced the administration of the rotavirus vaccine within the routine Immunization programme in the country. Read more....