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Rhona MacDonald, PLoS Medicine Community Blog Given the current economic climate, the sight of countries trying to outbid each other in their generosity to pledge money for vaccines at the first ever GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) “pledging” conference in London on 13th June...
Bill Roedy, Huffington Post During my 20-year tenure as the Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks International, I witnessed the ability of music to inspire hope and transform lives around the globe. Whether it was broadcasting U2's concert in Sarajevo a few years after the civil...
The Economist GLOBAL-HEALTH experts are often a glum lot, but a few billion dollars should be enough to perk anybody up. Over the past decade the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), founded with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has become...
Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog Vaccinating children around the world against infectious diseases has saved the lives of millions over the past several decades. Now new opportunities exist to overcome remaining challenges, according to articles in the June 2011 issue of Health Affairs, Strategies For The...
Mike Henry, ONE Blog For months now, we’ve been asking our ONE members to give it all they have on our vaccine campaign. We asked our members to use every advocacy tool and skill they had to make sure that we won this important fight to...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk As the only qualified provider of healthcare for nearly 5,000 people in rural Madagascar, 29-year-old paramedic Hantamalala Ramanandraibe is hardly short of job satisfaction. It is sleep she lacks. Yet pressure is about to increase on Ramanandraibe, who is paid 300,000 ariary ($150) per...
Andrew Wander, AlJazeera Graves come in two sizes in Kenya's impoverished North Eastern Province: large for adults, small for children. You don't need to be a statistician to see that rates of child mortality are high here; a simple visit to the graveyard in the desert...
Chris Dodd & Robert Bennett, Huffington Post Last week, mothers in Mozambique walked up to 15 miles on behalf of their children. They weren't part of a walk-a-thon or a protest, but their footsteps sent an equally powerful message: they were walking so their children could...
Nicholas Watt, Guardian.co.uk Bill Gates, the philanthropist and founder of Microsoft, on Sunday praised David Cameron for his "absolutely fantastic" decision to embrace the UN target of spending 0.7% of GNI (gross national income) on overseas aid by 2013. "The UK government is taking a lead," Gates...
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