The United Nation’s Every Woman Every Child movement has expanded their “Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed” Call to Action to target the most critical and impactful period of a child’s life: the neonatal period. The neonatal period refers to the first 28 days of a newborn’s life, a period in which…
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In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. –Jeffrey Sachs @JeffDSachs The celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970 was just the beginning of a worldwide movement to improve various issues…
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The link between local community health and global health is often overlooked. When poor health systems are discussed it is often in the context of “us vs. them” a developed to developing relationship that has very few parallels. In many ways this is true: the diseases that plague the developing world are not as prevalent…
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“We needed to develop “delivery platforms” to treat tuberculosis and address the poverty that both puts people at risk for the disease and prevents them from being cured of it. With this airborne disease, good delivery systems prevent transmission–and that’s what public health is supposed to be all about.” -Paul Farmer This year’s international…
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While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby. ~Amy Spangler @babygooroo A child’s risk of death in the first four weeks of life is nearly 15 times greater than any other time before his or her first birthday. The first day of life is the…
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This week Dr. Anita Zaidi was announced as the inaugural Caplow Children’s Prize million-dollar winner on Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Dr. Zaidi’s submitted 5-step plan is titled Saving children’s lives in a Pakistani village through a peri-natal care and primary health promotion intervention package and you can find some information about it here. Dr. Zaidi’s…
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The Children’s Prize has received malaria proposals from eight countries that are listed within the top 17 as having the largest number of malaria deaths, according to the World Malaria Report. However, malaria proposals have not been received from Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire and Mozambique. These three countries are among the top six…
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