Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India NEW DELHI: India is all set to roll out the five-in-one vaccine shot in two states soon. The Union health ministry officials told Bill and Melinda Gates on Tuesday that the long awaited pentavalent vaccine would be rolled out as...
UN News Centre 21 March 2011 – The number of people without access to adequate water and sanitation facilities in Africa has risen swiftly in recent decades as the continent’s rapid urbanization outpaced its capacity to provide the essential services, two United Nations agencies said in...
New Vision PNEUMONIA and diarrhoea are life threatening diseases. It is better to prevent them, and the easiest way is through vaccination. Vicky Wandawa writes why they need to be included on Uganda's vaccination rota Vaccination against respiratory diseases Count to 15 seconds and somewhere in the world,...
ONE Blog A maze of shacks, mud, and open sewers on the edge of Nairobi, Kibera is one of the biggest slums in the world. It could have as many as one million residents, though nobody knows for sure. Health care in Kibera is an enormous challenge....
Ginny Wolfe, ABC News Initiative By the time many patients get to the district hospital in Siaya, they are exhausted – and very ill. They often have to walk (or bike) three to six miles to get to the hospital, so it is a trek they...
Melinda Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation When I returned to work in Seattle following my trip to Kenya and Ghana last January, I was filled with tremendous optimism mostly due to one fact: while we here at the foundation work hard to help lift people...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian,co.uk What do poor people want? It's a stupid question, because of course "poor people" aren't a single homogenous group and everyone wants something different. But it's also the only question that should matter. If what we are doing in development is trying to...
AlertNet 15 March 2011 Shousha transit camp, Tunisia--Tunisian Ministry of Public Health, supported by WHO, UNICEF and other health partners, started a vaccination campaign for an estimated 100 children under 5 years currently residing in camps. Strong winds and whirling sand are slowing down preparations, but...
Miriam Gathigah, Business Daily The Kenyatta International Conference Centre resembled one big nursery with parents and their crying babies. Hundreds of parents with their infants thronged the centre where they received their first shot against pneumonia. Not even the children’s tears as the shot broke through their skin...
Mićo Tatalović, Science and Development Network New approaches to cutting the number of deaths during childbirth in developing countries will be targeted by a US$50 million fund launched last week (9 March). Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development was announced in Washington DC, United...
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