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03 May

Erin Hohlfelder, ONE Blog More than 8 million children around the world die each year before their 5th birthday. Two of the biggest killers are pneumonia and diarrhoea — which kill more than AIDS, TB and malaria combined! Here’s the illustrated story of two villains (pneumonia...

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28 Apr

Dagfinn Høybråten, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “Vaccines are the heart of our primary care,” Emebet Meshesha, a health extension worker, told me last month when I visited the Adama Udie health post in Ormoia, just outside Addis Ababa. Ethiopia has made impressive gains with immunization. From...

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27 Apr

PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk As southern Sudan prepares for independence, it is already beginning to formulate policies that will repair a region shattered by decades of civil war. One of the most innovative ideas being considered, with some expertise reportedly from Unicef, is a benefit paid out...

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27 Apr

Malaka Gharib, ONE Blog Dr. Robert Block, president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a veteran in the field of children’s health. Before he spoke at a ONE press conference today, I had a chance to get his thoughts on life before vaccines and his...

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27 Apr

Evan O’Neill, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation You are likely to be judged by the company you keep. In Osama bin Laden's case, the isolated mountains of tribal Afghanistan and Pakistan provide a perfect safe haven for him and for polio. Thirty years of conflict and low...

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27 Apr

Henry Neondo, ASNS News The Government of Rwanda has with the help of two US firms launched in Kigali a comprehensive national cervical cancer prevention program that includes vaccination of girls, aged between 12 to 15 years and modern molecular diagnostic screening for women between the...

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27 Apr

Helen Evans, GAVI Alliance Geneva, 26 April 2011 - Every year, some 270,000 women die from cervical cancer, most of them in developing countries where screening and treatment services are lacking. In a country like Rwanda, cervical cancer is the leading cancer killer. Most of these...

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27 Apr

Sam Baker, The Hill The anti-poverty group ONE launched a new public service announcement Tuesday aimed at getting lawmakers and world leaders to fund a program that makes vaccines more widely available to children in poor countries, especially in Africa. Read more....

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