United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on delegates to Advance Global Health summit in Melbourne, Australia, to continue to focus on ways to improve women and children’s health initiatives as part of the organization’s Millennium Development Goals. The event brings together charities and aid groups that work with the UN, and comes ahead of a [...]
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For Africans wondering whether the malaria drugs they’ve bought are real, there may soon be a quick way of finding out: sending a text message.
More than 30% of malaria medicines sold in Africa are reportedly counterfeit, a problem that has led Nigeria to adopt mPedigree, which enables users to independently verify that their anti-malarial drugs [...]
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Russian forest authorities and Greenpeace are expressing worry the presence of fires in areas still contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster may send radioactive smoke into populated areas. Environmentalist say there is no current way to gauge the scope of the threat or how far contaminated particles may have spread. “Fires on these territories [...]
Rotavirus vaccines can prevent 39% to 48% of infections among even the poorest children in developing countries, according to reports published in the journal Lancet. More than 400,000 children die from rotavirus every year. Vaccination programs, already standard for newborns in the U.S. and other developed countries, should be launched in developing countries immediately, researchers [...]
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The United Nations General Assembly voted Wednesday to support a nonbinding resolution declaring access to clean water and sanitation as a human right. Canada, the U.S. and Australia were among the 41 countries to abstain from the vote. No country voted against the measure. More than 884 million people around the world lack access to [...]
More than 4 million new HIV/AIDS infections could be prevented and $20.2 billion in HIV-related costs in eastern and southern Africa saved by 2025 if male circumcision rates increase to 80%, the aid group Population Services International says. Researchers say circumcision cuts a man’s infection risk by as much as 60%.
Expanding circumcision services to [...]
The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology.
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new [...]
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Government cuts to funding for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and health infrastructure programs have limited the number of people receiving lifesaving drugs, falling short of world leaders’ goal of universal treatment by 2010, said officials at an international HIV/AIDS conference. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Michel Kazatchkine, head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, [...]
A consortium of international groups including the mHealth Alliance announced today (24/6) a call for collaboration to accelerate the use of modern information and communications technologies (ICTs), especially wireless, to improve maternal and newborn health in the developing world. They called for financial and organizational support to leverage the growing use of wireless technology [...]
Posted in Children, Education, Grassroots, Health Tags: Children, Health, Sanitation, UN, Women 1 Comment »Across the Sahel region, an estimated 10 million people are at risk of famine. Niger and Chad, two of the poorest countries in the world, have declared states of emergency.
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the North and the Sudanian savannas in the south. It [...]
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