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....
Toronto’s National Post, Heidi Kingstone, November 02, 2009 When Kate O’Brien’s 12-month old baby showed signs of pneumonia, she rushed him down to the emergency department at one of Washington, D.C.’s hospitals, knowing that even at 2 a.m. staff would be on hand to treat her...
By Laura MacInnis, Fri Oct 30, 2009 GENEVA (Reuters) - A vaccine aid group said on Friday it was seeking $4 billion to protect as many as 130 million of the world's poorest children against diarrhea and pneumonia. Read more...
By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng, Ap Medical Writer – Sun Nov 1, 7:01 pm ET LONDON – To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years. Read...
Ananya Panda, Tribune News Service, New Delhi, November 2 One child dies every minute in India due to pneumonia, with the global meter ticking faster at one in every 15 seconds. The respiratory infection, the leading cause behind deaths among children, claims two million infants each...
The Hindu - NEW DELHI, November 3, 2009 The government will introduce Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b) pentavalent (five-in-one) vaccine in the routine immunisation programme from next year. It will replace the DPT and Hepatitis ‘B’ vaccines. Read more...
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