PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk Does aid go on forever? Does global inequality carry on deepening? Crystal ball-gazing is never easy, but recently various development experts have been having a go. Next Tuesday, the Overseas Development Institute is hosting a debate on the future of development. I've come up...
Charissa Sparks, AllAfrica.com Most often caused by small businesses and mining, toxic threats are endangering the lives of 100 million people worldwide. These pollutants are largely overlooked, even though they cause significant harm to humans. "The global health impacts of toxic pollutants are much worse than previously...
Shoumojit Banerjee, The Hindu Philanthropist and software titan Bill Gates on Wednesday said the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were in talks with the Government of India to introduce new vaccines to bolster the rate of immunisation in the National Rural Health Mission programme. In Bihar to...
Erin Hohlfelder, ONE Blog What better way to illustrate our support for vaccines than with an illustration itself? Global policy expert Erin Hohlfelder teamed up with ONE blogger (and part-time illustrator) Malaka Gharib to help bring this story to life. More than 8 million kids around the...
Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Development To mark World Water Day on 22 March, whose focus is "Water for Cities – Responding to the Urban Challenge", the EU Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs announces the launch of a pooling mechanism in the framework of the ACP-EU...
David Leonhardt, The New York Times In the not too distant past — 1980 — one of every six babies born in the West African nation of Liberia died in infancy. Overall life expectancy was a mere 48 years. The great majority of Liberians couldn’t read...
PLos Medicine Diarrhea remains a leading cause of mortality among young children in low- and middle-income countries. Although the evidence for individual diarrhea prevention and treatment interventions is solid, the effect a comprehensive scale-up effort would have on diarrhea mortality has not been estimated. Read more....
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,...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
