While some 80 percent of children around the world, or 110 million infants, are receiving life-saving vaccinations each year, “one in five – more than 22 million children – not being vaccinated is too much for us,” according to the World Health Organization at the start of World Immunization Week 2014. [Read More]
Announcing that more than 50 partners are now on board its partnership initiative to fight against neglected tropical diseases, tuberculosis and malaria, the United Nations intellectual property agency today hailed the watershed achievement as a significant step towards helping more than one billion people overcome such maladies. [Read More]
Cities in developing countries with quality health, housing and water drainage systems, can more easily adapt to a changing climate, says the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. [Read More]
‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria,’ the theme of World Malaria Day 2013,1 still struck a chord with the outgoing WHO Global Malaria Program Director, Dr Robert Newman, during the release of the latest World Malaria Report on 11 December 20132 in Washington D.C. Dr Newman stated that ‘the greatest threat to continued success in malaria efforts is financial,’ as the community had less than half of the US$5.1 billion needed annually to ensure universal access to life-saving malaria interventions, including long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), indoor residual spraying of households with insecticide (IRS), intermittent preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women (IPTp), rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and arteminisin combination therapies (ACTs). [Read More]
For the first time in Liberia an HIV and AIDS Media Guide has been developed and validated by stakeholders in the national HIV response. [Read More]
As nations celebrate World Malaria Day tomorrow, Emma Okonji examines the Malaria Destroyer Game, a software technology solution designed by a Nigerian software firm, that can eradicate malaria through the use of mobile phones. [Read More]
As five African countries prepare to celebrate World Immunization Week (24-30 April) with the impending introduction of new vaccines, the GAVI Alliance is finalising plans to build on its successes with a major drive to increase access to vaccines and the impact of immunisation programmes by 2020. [Read More]
In 2012, an estimated 2.9 million babies died in the newborn period (during the first 28 days of life).1 Approximately three-quarters of these deaths occurred within the first week and one third on the day of birth. An additional 1.2 million babies died during labour (intrapartum stillbirths).2 Most of these deaths are preventable, however there are many missed opportunities to save lives and prevent disability. [Read More]
Economic growth is widely regarded as a necessary, and often sufficient, condition for the improvement of population health. We aimed to assess whether macroeconomic growth was associated with reductions in early childhood undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries. [Read More]
Given country demands for support in the training of community health workers (CHWs) to accelerate progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals in sexual and reproductive health and maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SR/MNCAH), the United Nations Health Agencies conducted a synthesis of existing training resource packages for CHWs in different components of SR/MNCAH to identify gaps and opportunities and inform efforts to harmonize approaches to developing the capacity of CHWs. [Read More]
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