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Grants allows BU center to track infant mortality
Lusaka :: Zambia | about 15 hours ago
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Boston University’s Center for Global Health and Development has won an $8.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project to test low-cost methods for saving the lives of millions of newborns worldwide. The Boston Globe reports...
Tags: Zambia, Lusaka, Health Medical Pharma, Infant, Chlorhexidine, Oral hygiene, Antiseptics, Global health, Guanidines
���Climate change will hit 175m kids every year���
New Delhi :: India | 1 day ago
Credibility A new report suggests that 175 million children will be affected every year by frequent natural disasters caused due to climate change. Painting a grim future, a report by child rights NGO Save the Children said climate change was the biggest global health...
Tags: climate change, India, New Delhi, Environment, Millennium Development Goals, Malnutrition, Poverty, Global health, Malaria, Humanitarian aid, Disaster Accident, Child survival, Public health
World Briefing | Asia: India: Lagging in Fighting Measles
Mumbai :: India | 4 days ago
Credibility India is the global laggard in reducing measles deaths, with three-quarters of the 164,000 deaths from measles that still occur worldwide annually, according to data released Thursday by the United Nations . The developing world has made extraordinary...
Tags: measles, vaccination, measles vaccination, measles deaths, United Nations Foundation, India, reducing measles, Mumbai, Pediatrics, Mononegavirales, Immunology, Health Medical Pharma, Measles Initiative, MMR vaccine, Vaccination schedule, Global health, Vaccine controversy, Vaccine, Public health, Prevention, Viral diseases, Microbiology
AFRICA: Campaign to Unite Against Malaria Kicks Off
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 5 days ago
Credibility Growing up in Cameroon, Joseph-Antoine Bell and his friends used to think that by playing football they could get rid of malaria. "Like showering and breathing, malaria, for us was part of living. When you felt a bit bad, you went to the ground to play,...
Tags: Joseph-Antoine Bell, UAM, Coca Cola Africa, Charles Ssali, Unite Against Malaria Kicks, Christina Vilupti-Barrineau, United Against Malaria, world cups, fight malaria, South Africa, Johannesburg, Malaria No More, Global health, Tropical diseases, Malaria, Neglected diseases, allnews
Australia helps Burma in fighting HIV/AIDS
Yangon :: Myanmar | 6 days ago
Credibility Australia will provide $ 3 million to Burma, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea as part of its effort to help reduce the spread of HIV in Asia-Pacific region. The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in a statement on World Aids Day on...
Tags: world aids day, world aids, aids, hiv, hiv/aids, Burma, Myanmar, Yangon, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, Social Issues, Health in Burma, HIV/AIDS in Burma, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Myanma kyat, Global health, World Health Organization, Aung San, Phyu Phyu Thin, Tuberculosis, Economy of Burma, Currency, United States dollar, Exchange rate, Business Finance, AusAID, HIV/AIDS in El Salvador, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria
Let's pledge a dime for global health
Maputo :: Mozambique | 6 days ago
Credibility The delivery of antiretroviral medicines to people with HIV in developing nations is a great example of lives saved and families made stronger...According to acclaimed economist Jeffrey Sachs, if the United States, European countries and Japan made a...
Tags: Dr. Steve Gloyd, U.S, Jim McDermott, Mozambique, Maputo, Health Medical Pharma, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, Global health, Social Issues, AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Pandemics, HIV
3DF studies options for new projects – Thomas Kean
Yangon :: Myanmar | 7 days ago
Credibility THE Three Diseases Fund will undertake a “scoping study” in the coming weeks to identify areas donors can contribute to when the present project cycle is completed in 2011. The decision comes after the Global Fund board approved all three of Myanmar’s...
Tags: Myanmar Country Coordination Mechanism, global funding, diseases funding, Myanmar, Yangon, Burma, World Health Organization, Global health, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Business Finance, Tuberculosis, International nongovernmental organizations
Alleged street racer charged in crash
Geneva :: WA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Authorities in Switzerland said they are pressing charges against a Russian man who caused a traffic collision while allegedly street racing...Authorities said the student admitted to speeding and being intoxicated at the time but denied racing.
Tags: Geneva, Pediatrics, Measles, Global health, Social Issues, Lamborghini, Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Public health, Health Medical Pharma, Malnutrition, Infectious diseases, Viral diseases, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, Disaster Accident, Law Crime, Pneumonia
Africa: Big Brother Africa Supports Fund Against Malaria
Yenagoa :: Nigeria | 11 days ago
Credibility Big Brother Africa Supports Fund Against Malaria Osa Okhomina 24 November 2009 Yenagoa — The hit television programme; "Big Brother Africa Revolution" and African private sector companies are supporting the Global Fund's fight against malaria by contributing...
Tags: big brother, brother africa, Nigeria, Yenagoa, Malaria No More, Global health, Business Finance, Tropical diseases, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Neglected diseases
Reprocessing deal well before August 2010 deadline: US
Mumbai :: India | 12 days ago
Credibility While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted that some 'minor' problems relating to the India-US nuclear deal could be resolved in a couple of weeks, the US has expressed confidence the deal would be done well before the August 2010 deadline. Manmohan...
Tags: Manmohan Singh, India, Mumbai, Indian National Congress, Politics, Barack Obama, Medical research, Global health, Social Issues, Arms control, Health Medical Pharma, World Health Organization, Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement, Nuclear program of Iran, Nuclear proliferation, India ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations
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