08
Dec
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
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08
Dec
Africa’s Meningitis Belt Gets First Vaccine Designed for Poor Nations
Public health triumphs like this don't come along every day. An array of public and private health groups is launching a cheap new vaccine against bacterial meningitis the first ever designed for Africa. Before now, vaccines and most other medicines have been developed for wealthy markets...
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08
Dec
Winning Hearts and Minds with a Vaccine? by Dr. Orin Levine
Meningitis is an awful disease. It comes on suddenly, kills frequently, disables its survivors for life, and devastates families economically and emotionally. When it occurs in epidemics, as it does frequently in Africa's "Meningitis Belt", it has the power to disrupt entire communities and health...
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03
Dec
RWANDA: Maternal and child health on the right track
In a region with some of the world’s worst indicators for maternal and child mortality, Rwanda is working hard to ensure mothers and their children have access to life-saving medical interventions. “I applaud the government of Rwanda for its efforts to ensure that you and your...
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03
Dec
Protecting Millions of Children from Killer Diseases
A new plan’s been announced to immunize 240 million additional children in developing countries over the next five years. However, the project depends on raising billions of dollars in funding. The GAVI Alliance, a Geneva-based public private partnership, says millions of lives could be saved....
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03
Dec
World Pneumonia Day featured on the Mwana Ba Afrika Blog!
There seems to be a day for everything these days but I think that the 12th of November is particularly important to highlight as pneumonia is one of those diseases that slips through the cracks, and yet most of the deaths from this disease are...
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01
Dec
Rwanda: Over 5 Million Children to Be Immunised in One Week
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday launched a one-week health campaign aimed at improving the health of mothers and children and intends to distribute several types of vaccines to 5.8 million children across the country. This was announced by the Minister of Health, Dr. Richard Sezibera,...
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01
Dec
New approach needed to end extreme poverty in poorest nations – UN official
The number of people living in extreme poverty in the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) has been on the rise despite higher national incomes in some of those States, a senior United Nations official said today, calling for a review of the current development approaches. “Even...
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01
Dec
Gates Global Vaccine Campaign to Raise $3.7 Billion for Immunization
The Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization, co-founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will create an advocacy group to raise $3.7 billion amid reduced donor contributions following the global financial crisis. The group is expected to start operating in the first quarter of 2011 and...
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29
Nov
Company offers low cost vaccine against killer diseases
Good news from GAVI – the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation. The price of the combined vaccine that protects small babies in poor countries against five major killer diseases – diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, Hib and hepatitis B – is coming down. An "emerging...
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