Road traffic injuries, HIV/AIDS and suicide are the top killers of adolescents globally, while depression is the predominant cause of illness and disability, the United Nations reported today, urging a stronger focus on the health of boys and girls in their pre- and teen years. [Read More]
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Road traffic injuries, HIV/AIDS and suicide are the top killers of adolescents globally, while depression is the predominant cause of illness and disability, the United Nations reported today, urging a stronger focus on the health of boys and girls in their pre- and teen years. [Read More] As African leaders, we are committed to continue investing in a sustainable and healthy future for all people on our
continent. We are making advances that are improving the health of Africa’s children. Child death rates are falling dramatically. Growing numbers of our children are attending school. The next generation is lighting the way to a bright future for Africa and the world. [Read More] For those of us working to improve the health of women and children around the world, this is the kind of news we wait for with great anticipation: This week, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank and United Nations published new estimates quantifying the burden of maternal mortality around the world. [Read More]
African nations fighting outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever are getting help from U.S. disease detectives and a new software tool to quickly find people exposed to the deadly virus. [Read more]
Resistance to common antibiotic medicine has been recorded in every region of the world, according to a report released yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill,” said Dr Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Health Security. [Read More] 1st International Conference on Drugs Policies in the Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP)5/5/2014
The first International Conference on Drugs Policies in the Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP) took place on 15-16 January 2014 in Praia, Cape Verde, under the aegis of the Portuguese NGO Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento (APDES) [Piaget Agency for Development] and the Ministry of Justice of the Cape Verdean Government and was co-funded by the Open Society Foundations. [Read More]
Big data’s great promise for development will need both human and technical capacity building, reports Jan Piotrowski.
[Read more] Children from extremely poor families are about twice as likely to contract malaria in endemic regions as their least poor counterparts, according to a review. [Read More]
The Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) plans to fund leading African and Canadian researchers to find solutions aimed at improving health systems for mothers and children in Sub-Saharan Africa. [Read More]
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