IRIN, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs THABA-TSEKA, 22 February 2011 (IRIN) - A new joint programme is changing the way the Lesotho government and its development partners deliver aid by getting different government departments, UN agencies and civil society organizations working together to...
PLos Medicine The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI) is a product development partnership (PDP) based at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in Seoul, Korea, and is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. PDPs are nonprofit entities that seek to accelerate the development, evaluation, and...
John Zarocostas, BMJ New ways are needed to enable manufacturers to produce cheaper, generic products while ensuring that innovation is encouraged through appropriate patent protection, experts say. This would ensure that public health systems in poor countries can provide universal access to lifesaving drugs, they argue. The...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) NEW YORK, 22 February 2011 - Despite an estimated 90 per cent decline in global maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) deaths over the last two decades, a newborn child still dies every nine minutes from the disease, according to the latest...
Orin Levine, The Huffington Post In 1986, as a sophomore at Gettysburg College, I accompanied my dad, a pediatrician and vaccine researcher, on a two-week trip to Rwanda. I was instantly smitten with Africa, and in the fall of 1987 I returned--this time to Kenya, as...
Warren Buffett, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In a little more than a month, the three of us will be coming to India for Gates Foundation and Berkshire Hathaway business. But we've set aside time on the trip to sit down with some of India's leading...
Heather Stewart, Guardian.co.uk French president Nicolas Sarkozy has commissioned the Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates to examine new ways of raising cash for the world's poorest countries, as G20 finance ministers gather in Paris. Campaigners for an international tax on financial transactions - the so-called...
Pamela Sittoni and Kun Li, UNICEF NAIROBI, Kenya, 16 February 2011 - Eleven years ago, Tabitha lost her oldest child to pneumonia – a disease that kills 30,000 young lives in Kenya every year. “When I took him to the doctors, that’s when I discovered it was...
John Mulholland, The Observer We are all aware of our ancient pasts and this continent has a rich and extraordinary tradition. But the thing that excites me more is thinking about Africa's future – as the continent of the 21st century. It's one of the richest...
Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization Mr Pascal Lamy, Dr Francis Gurry, distinguished experts, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to host this meeting at WHO and extend my warmest welcome to all of you. By again focusing these technical discussions on access to medicines,...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
