Category Archives: Child Health

DRC: Mother-to-Child HIV transmission – “Catastrophe”

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

  KINSHASA, 24 April 2012 (PlusNews) – Poorly integrated maternal health services, a lack of human resources and a serious shortage of money for treatment mean the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is unlikely to meet the global plan of eliminating mother-to-child … Continue reading →

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HEALTH: Beating measles – one more push?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

  Vaccines against measles have been around for decades and are highly effective, yet the campaign against the disease in recent years has had a bumpy ride. The first target of the 21st century – to halve the number of … Continue reading →

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Nepal: HIV-positive children, orphans neglected

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

RAKAM, 3 April 2012 (PlusNews) – In the village of Rakam in Dailekh District, about 700km northwest of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, 12-year-old Ravi* is living with HIV and has no idea if he will finish his education. “I feel … Continue reading →

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CHAD: Polio Outbreak

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

  DAKAR, 5 February 2012 Poor-quality emergency immunization campaigns and low routine polio immunization coverage are helping the polio virus to spread in Chad, with 132 cases reported in 2011 – five times the number in 2010. More commitment is … Continue reading →

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HEALTH: Pledge to eradicate “neglected” diseases

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Ten little-known but debilitating diseases will be high on the agenda of the world’s pharmaceutical chiefs, health ministers and donor governments after they pledged their support for a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to wipe out guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma, leprosy, … Continue reading →

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Measles Immunization:1.7 million Children Targeted

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

NAIROBI, 21 December 2011 (IRIN) – Amid rising measles and polio cases, tens of thousands of children are being targeted for immunization in health campaigns in affected regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the UN Children’s … Continue reading →

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YEMEN: Child Polio “Humanitarian Disaster”

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

  Routine immunization of children has dropped by 40 percent in some areas of Yemen, leading to outbreaks of polio and measles and reflecting a growing collapse of public services in a country that is on the brink of a … Continue reading →

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A Real Sophie’s choice: Famine forces mothers to decide which child lives and which dies

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her one-year-old daughter on her back and her four-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia’s drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some … Continue reading →

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KENYA: Infant AIDS Vaccine Progress

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Infants enrolled in October 2010 in an HIV vaccine trial are doing well, say researchers in Kenya. “We have already vaccinated 28 infants with the vaccine and up to now we haven’t seen any adverse reaction in any of the … Continue reading →

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MYANMAR: Malarial drug resistance “hotspots” identified

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

Health experts had barely finished one project to contain anti-malarial drug resistance along the Thai-Cambodia border when their attention was drawn to Myanmar, where early warning signs suggest a waning influence of the anti-malarial drug Artemisinin. Malaria is a leading … Continue reading →

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