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Child Deaths Fall, But 'Grossly Insufficient': U.N. |
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| Reuters |
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| September 10, 2009 |
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| "Childhood deaths have declined
across the world, data released on Thursday showed, but mortality is
increasingly concentrated in poor countries. A study by the United Nation's
children's fund (UNICEF) showed that thanks to better prevention methods for
malaria and action to reduce mother-to-child AIDS virus transmission, some
8.8 million children under five died in 2008 compared with 12.5 million in
1990. But 99 percent of child deaths occurred in poor countries..." |
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Vaccine Plan Aims to Spur Drug Development for Poor Nations |
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| Wall Street Journal |
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| June 12, 2009 |
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| "A group of wealthy nations is
launching a first-of-its-kind program designed to encourage
pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines for diseases common to poor
countries. The $1.5 billion program marks a departure from previous
charitable efforts to increase poor countries' access to vaccines.
Instead of buying existing drugs and giving them away, the donors will
guarantee pharmaceutical companies a future market big enough to justify
developing and manufacturing new vaccines needed in nations too
impoverished to afford them on their own...The first target will be a
vaccine to prevent pneumococcal disease, which kills 1.6 million people
in the world a year, the majority of them young children in the
developing world..." |
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Rotavirus: Every Child Should Be Vaccinated Against Diarrheal Disease,
W.H.O. Says |
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| New York Times |
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| June 9, 2009 |
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| "The World Health Organization
recommended last week that the vaccine against rotavirus, a diarrheal
disease that kills 500,000 children a year, be given to every child in
the world. More than 85 percent of those deaths are of poor children in
Africa, Asia and Latin America, and the W.H.O. endorsement allows donor
money to be used for the vaccine..." |
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Polio: New Outbreak of Polio in Africa Prompts Appeal for Vaccine
Financing |
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| New York Times |
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| April 21, 2009 |
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| "The International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies has made an emergency appeal for
millions of dollars to fight a new polio outbreak across Africa. 'Polio
is spreading again, including in countries such as Uganda which had been
polio-free for more than a decade,' said Dr. Tamman Aloudat, who is in
charge of health emergencies for the federation. Despite more than 20
years of eradication efforts, two strains of polio have spread out from
northern Nigeria and northern India — both places where many Muslims
have resisted vaccines because of rumors that vaccine efforts are a
Western plot to sterilize them..." |
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Haiti Vaccines Target 1 million Children, Women: Public health workers
to help immunize against polio, measles, rubella |
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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March 27, 2009 |
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"Public health workers plan to vaccinate some 1 million women and
children this week in Haiti after delays exacerbated by food riots and
hurricanes, officials said. The effort marks the second phase of an
international goal to immunize 5.6 million Haitian children..." |
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635 Million Pledged in Effort to Wipe Out Polio |
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| Wall Street Journal |
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| January 22, 2009 |
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| "Efforts to eradicate polio in
Nigeria, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan have been given a boost by
$635 million in new funding. The German and U.K. governments will
contribute $280 million, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will donate
$255 million, and Rotary International will generate $100 million during
the next three years. The World Health Organization and UNICEF will use
the funds for vaccination drives in the affected countries. Though
vaccination efforts lowered polio cases from 350,000 in 1988 to a
several hundred in recent years, conflicts in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
insufficient vaccination in northern India, and Nigeria's decision to
temporarily halt vaccinations in 2003 helped boost the number of cases
to about 1,600 last year. Health officials say $350 million in funding
must be raised this year and next to continue eradication initiatives in
these countries..." |
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| Bill Gates Q&A: The challenges of running the Gates Foundation |
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| Seattle Times |
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| July 1, 2008 |
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| "Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates talked with Seattle Times reporters Benjamin J. Romano and Kristi Heim in the days before he moves full time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Here are edited excerpts of his remarks about the foundation..." |
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| Millions of Vaccines to be Bought for Children Worldwide |
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| International Herald Tribune |
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| June 25, 2008 |
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| "Millions of children and teenagers in poor countries may soon be vaccinated against seven common diseases, health officials said Wednesday..." |
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