Associated Press- November 20, 2009 "Starting next year an extra 6.3 million children worldwide will have the chance to feel that pinch and get vaccinated against some of the world's deadliest illnesses, according to the GAVI Alliance, a global vaccine partnership that helped organize the Hanoi...
By Margie Mason Associated Press- November, 19, 2009 "Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention...
by World Vision Alert Net- November 16, 2009 "The lives of millions of children in the developing world could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure provision of such low-cost, simple interventions as better nutrition and skilled birth attendants - that even the poorest countries...
by GAVI Alliance Maxims News Network- November 16, 2009 "More than 20 health ministers from developing countries meeting for the 4th GAVI Alliance Partner’s Forum to highlight the progress and challenges in protecting children’s lives through immunization programmes (including rotavirus and pneumococcal diseases) have appealed to donors...
H.RES.863, "Recognizing the scourge of pneumonia, urging the United States and the world to mobilize cooperation and focus resources to fight pneumonia and save children's lives, and recognizing November 2 as World Pneumonia Day," was introduced into the US Congress on October 23, 2009 and...
By Orin Levine Huffington Post-November 11, 2009 "The Obama administration made a terrific choice yesterday by deciding to appoint Raj Shah as the head of USAID, the government’s primary agency for international development...
By Maggie Mertens NPR-November 2, 2009 "With all the attention on the danger malaria and HIV/AIDS pose for kids around the globe, you might be surprised to learn that pneumonia kills more than 2 million children worldwide each year--more than any other disease. Almost all the pneumonia...
By NOAH HOFFENBERG Amherst Bulletin-November 06, 2009 "What did you do with your Monday? Dr. David Marsh continued pushing to save millions of the world's children from their No. 1 enemy: pneumonia. Marsh, 60, a pediatrician in Amherst, is the senior child survival adviser for Save the...
By Adrian Trenholme, Cass Byrnes,Cameron Grant The New Zealand Herald- November 4, 2009 "Pneumonia is the single biggest killer of children in the world. Although deaths are rare here in New Zealand, our children have rates of pneumonia hospitalisation five times greater than the United States and...
By Leith Greensdale Blog4GlobalHealth- November 2, 2009 "As welcome as the news was that 3.7 million fewer children are dying before they reach their 5th birthday, the reality is that the pace of change is nowhere near fast enough to reach Millennium Development Goal 4 by 2015....
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