BBC The BBC's medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has been to Sierra Leone to see what progress is being made in improving child health. It has one of the highest rates of child mortality, but there are signs of improvement. Free healthcare was introduced last year for pregnant...
Toby Helm and Tracy McVeigh, Global Development, Guardian.co.uk David Cameron has made an impassioned defence of increased spending on international aid, arguing that British people have a "moral" duty to help save children in the poorest nations from "entirely preventable" deaths. Read more....
Christopher Elias, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Blog Times were tough in the United States in 1938. Unemployment was at 19 percent as the country crawled out of the Great Depression. Nevertheless, President Franklin Roosevelt decided it was time to launch a multimillion dollar campaign to...
Suzanne Beukes and Shantha Bloemen, UNICEF Mothers with small infants clutch their pink child health cards outside the centre, as they seek shade from the hot sun. Next to the clinic, older women and men gather with different produce they have brought to sell at the...
Sarah Boseley, Guardian.co.uk Vaccination is a big success in poor countries. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) said it has prevented more than 5 million child deaths in the last decade and will prevent 4 million more by 2015. But critics want to ensure limited...
SOS Children's Villages Key players in the global vaccine industry have announced plans to reduce the costs of vaccines desperately needed in the developing world. Slashing the costs of vaccines will help get preventative medicine to more children in the developing world. GlaxoSmithKline will cut the price...
Florence Poblete-Enriquez, UN Multimedia Donors have been urged by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to fund a global immunization effort to save millions of children’s lives by 2015. The call has come as world leaders prepare to converge in London for a pledging conference of the...
BBC News The price of some life-saving vaccines will be cut dramatically to people in the developing world. The news was announced on Monday by a number of leading international pharmaceutical companies. For example, the cost of the vaccine against rotavirus, which causes diarrhoea, will now be $2.50...
Melinda Gates I have believed for more than a decade now that children in the poorest parts of the world should have access to the same life-saving vaccines available to children in rich countries. That's why I'm excited that the GAVI Alliance announced today they will...
Radio Australia News The British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to cut the price of its diarrhoea vaccine by 95 percent for the world's poorest nations, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Under GSK's new pricing structure, the poorest nations will be able to buy a dose...
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