Flavia Lanyero, The Monitor Following moves by the Ministry of Health to cut its budget by Shs2 billion to refund mismanaged money, health civil society organisations yesterday called on donors to halt funding to government until the State gives accountability for grant money already spent. Read more....
Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, USAID Over 150 countries, including the U.S., observe April 25-30 as Infant Immunization Week, as occasion for raising awareness about the importance of immunization and, in some places, intensifying vaccination activities. MCHIP recognizes National Infant Immunization Week because we are...
Yahoo News WASHINGTON (AFP) – Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, with stark differences in conditions for women and children in the two countries, a report released Tuesday says. Read more....
Amie Newman, Bill & Melinda Gates If you’ve been reading the blog this week, you know we’re focusing on immunization and vaccines. From our coverage of World Malaria Day this week to our posts on the urgency of eradicating polio once and for all, there is...
Helen Evans, GAVI Alliance Geneva, 28 April 2011 – Rotavirus disease continues to be a significant global health problem. As illustrated in newly released surveillance data by WHO and CDC, globally, 36% of children’s hopitalisation for diarrhoea are due to rotavirus infection. Read more....
Erin Hohlfelder, ONE Blog As most of you know, we formally launched our child vaccines campaign in the US last week. Many of you have already sent in blog comments, Facebook posts and tweets sharing your enthusiasm and passion for this cause, and we have to...
ONE International Why Childhood Vaccines? Childhood vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives and prevent disease for a lifetime. Unlike many other health interventions, vaccines help healthy people stay healthy. Not only do vaccines help protect against preventable death from disease, but they...
Global Health Policy, Center for Global Development Our new visiting fellow Andy Sumner has drawn attention to the fact that most of the world’s poor now live in middle-income countries, not low-income countries. As it turns out, most of the world’s unvaccinated one-year olds...
Project Hope, CSR Wire MILLWOOD, Va., May. 02 /CSRwire/ - Project HOPE, a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization, in partnership with Merck, a leader in global health care (known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada), is collaborating with the Honduran Ministry...
Mary Beth Powers, Huffington Post I love being an American mom, but guess what, being a mom is even better for women in several other countries around the world. In the world's best place to be a mother, I could expect an extra year of life...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
