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May 4, 2015
Ideas Wanted: New Ways to Reduce Childhood Pneumonia Deaths
When we think of a young child with pneumonia, we almost always think of this infection of the lungs as something acute which needs close attention and treatment.
May 4, 2015
As Ebola Approaches Zero, Immunisation Gets a Boost in West Africa
As Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia work to end Ebola, critical healthcare services damaged by the epidemic are beginning to be revitalised.
May 3, 2015
Why Your Future Vaccination Might Not Be A Shot
Vaccines don’t always make it into the people who need them the most. Many require a syringe and a needle to enter the bloodstream and create immunity. And that means a doctor or nurse has to do the job.
Apr 23, 2015
Malaria vaccine candidate has demonstrated efficacy over 3-4 years of follow-up
Final results from a large-scale Phase III trial of the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate, including the impact of a booster dose, published today in The Lancet, show that the vaccine candidate helped protect children and infants from clinical malaria for at least three years after first vaccination.
Apr 20, 2015
Europe steps up immunisation drive
Across Europe this week, the spotlight will be on vaccines for European Immunisation Week which runs from April 20-25. This is the 10th anniversary of the annual event organised by the World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Europe.
Apr 20, 2015
Closing the Gap on Pneumonia in Kenya
Soon after the birth of her second child, a daughter she named Neema, Tabu Kalama found herself homeless and with no regular income. Kalama had no option but to sleep with her newborn daughter and her 18-month old son in the meager shelter of palm trees near the beach in Kilifi, in eastern Kenya. It was June, among the coolest and wettest months there. “I was so worried that the baby would fall sick, and there was nothing that I could do,” Kalama says.
Apr 13, 2015
African CDC to Open in 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry signed an agreement Monday to help establish a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Africa.
Apr 9, 2015
Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World
Like many fields, public health is in the midst of a data revolution: randomized control trials, pay-for-performance and value calculations, all based on data, are changing our ideas about what works and how to finance it.
Apr 6, 2015
Project aims to improve maternal and newborn health in sub-Saharan Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa, maternal and neonatal outcomes are some of the worst in the world. What would happen to those numbers if 1,000 new obstetrician/gynecologists were trained with state-of-the-art educational materials in the region over the next ten years?
Apr 3, 2015
What China Can Teach The World About Successful Health Care
Over the past six decades, China has been experimenting with radically different forms of health care systems. As the country struggles to figure out the best way to get health care to 1.3 billion people, the rest of the world can learn from its past successes and failures, researchers wrote Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.