BMC Women's Health
Malaria remains a burden for pregnant women and the under 5. Intermittent preventive treatment of pregnant women (IPTp) for malaria with sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) has since replaced prophylaxis and legislation has been reinforced in the area of insecticide treated mosquito nets (ITNs) in Cameroon. Clinical malaria despite all these measures remains a problem. We compared the socio-obstetrical characteristics of women who developed clinical malaria and those who did not though in the same regimen. [Read More]

University of Southhampton
An international study led by the University of Southampton and the National Vector-borne Diseases Control Programme (NVDCP) in Namibia has used mobile phone data to help combat malaria more effectively. [Read More]

Save the Children's 15th annual State of the World's Mothers report examines the impact of humanitarian crises on maternal, newborn and child survival in countries consistently ranked as the most difficult places to be a mother. Since the Mothers' Index was launched in 2000, the majority of the bottom 10 countries have been fragile states in the midst of, or emerging from, a recent humanitarian emergency. [Read More] 

This week, the World Health Assembly in Geneva brings with it a packed agenda and a whole host of questions around a number of key issues for global health policy makers. [Read More]

The future of international development cooperation is not just hashed out in dusty field offices and ramshackle schools
and hospitals, but also at a variety of events, celebrations and other gatherings. Below are some of the most noteworthy events for the week starting May 19. [Read More]

How will the United Nations implement the post-2015 agenda in practice? That was the key question on the table
at a behind-closed-doors meeting of 29 U.N. specialized organizations chaired by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. [Read More]

Under the theme “The next 50 years: The Africa we want,” the African Development Bank opens on Monday its 49th annual
meetings in Kigali, Rwanda, hoping to come up with concrete plans to foster sustainable economic growth across the continent, tackle climate change and the culture of corruption and waste that has stunted African development in the
past. [Read More]

A new plan for private sector investment in Tanzania could lead to better diets, improved food security and a more productive workforce. [Read More]

East African Business Week
The EAC health ministers under the EAC Regional Cooperation and integration of Health Systems, Research and Policy have told the Secretariat to finalise the draft Protocol on EAC Regional Cooperation on Health. [Read More]