The News Review:
- WORLD VISION TO US CONGRESS: PROTECT FUNDING FOR GLOBAL CHILD HEALTH,…
- PESHAWAR: US pledges more funds for Fata uplift: Envoy visits Levies…
- Rwanda: Scribes Urged to Educate Public On Health Issues
- Teen arrested for abusing baby
- Eritrea: Haikota And Golij Health Centers to Be Elevated to the Level…
- 2007 status report on health inequalities.
- SOUTH AFRICA: HIV major factor in rising child deaths
WORLD VISION TO US CONGRESS: PROTECT FUNDING FOR GLOBAL CHILD HEALTH,…
Reuters AlertNet – Mar 13, 2008
“Their leadership both on the Senate Budget amendment and on crafting a bipartisan bill on Global AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will help ensure America’s promises of hope are matched by deeds. ”
Also today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a markup session on draft legislation that would reauthorize PEPFAR for five more years, following the bill’s preliminary approval by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs based on policy compromises reached in late February. “Lawmakers have a moral obligation to reach a bi-partisan, comprehensive agreement on this bill and increase funding to address the needs of millions of orphans and vulnerable children affected by AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis,” said Craig Jaggers, World Vision’s health policy advisor in the U. “They must act quickly to ensure uninterrupted availability of treatment, care and prevention services for people in hard-hit nations, while including behavior-change programs that incorporate the valuable contribution of abstinence and faithfulness promotion. ”
More than 15 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS and related illnesses, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. World Vision’s work focuses on assisting children and families made vulnerable by the pandemic… More than 26,000 children each day die before reaching the age of 5, mostly due to preventable and treatable causes such as diarrhea, malnutrition and malaria. Most of these lives could be saved through simple, low-cost interventions. A recent national poll commissioned by the U. Coalition on Child Survival showed more than 8 in 10 Americans support expanding U. funding commitments to reduce child deaths around the world, regardless of their political affiliation.
PESHAWAR: US pledges more funds for Fata uplift: Envoy visits Levies…
Pakistan Dawn – Mar 13, 2008
Main activities under the health sector projects are provision of ambulances to hospitals, provision of equipment related to mother and child health, training of community midwives and trainings of women healthcare providers in emergency neonate and mother healthcare services in the Fata. 25 million would be spent on the Improved Child Health Project during a period of two years while $0. Ambassador Patterson and Governor Ghani reviewed the support managed by the USAID in Fata and other areas of Pakistan including $20 million projects in the health sector.
Rwanda: Scribes Urged to Educate Public On Health Issues
AllAfrica.com – Mar 13, 2008
Paul Centre in Kigali. Rwandans especially those in the villages sometimes tend to ignore essential issues like washing hands before eating and regular medical checkups, she said. "But with your contribution, we can together help reduce child mortality rate, maternal death rate and increase general awareness on health status," she said. Statistics from the Health ministry show that 90 percent diseases in Rwanda are preventable. Journalists pointed to bureaucracy in most public health departments and officials who do not want to release information. Relevant LinksCentral AfricaHealth and MedicinePress and MediaRwandaThey said such problems affect their job.
Teen arrested for abusing baby
WBBH – Mar 13, 2008
After running several tests, doctors discovered that the child was also suffering from serious internal injuries. Christian Jimenez-Colon, 19 of Cape Coral, is not the baby’s father but was engaged to marry the child’s mother. Jimenez-Colon told officers that he had been too rough with the boy because he was angry. “He admitted to detectives that at one point, he put all of his weight on the child’s abdomen – to the point that the child stopped breathing,” said Dyan Lee of the Cape Coral Police Department. He stated that he did not tell the baby’s mother or the medical staff what had happened because he did not want his fianc?o break up with him… If the baby’s health does decline, Jimenez-Colon would then face additional charges. The next court date will be held on Monday, April 14th. The baby remains at Health Park Hospital and is listed in critical condition. The child’s biological father, Jorge Merly, died this summer after his car plunged into a Cape Coral canal. © 2008 by
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Eritrea: Haikota And Golij Health Centers to Be Elevated to the Level…
AllAfrica.com – Mar 13, 2008
com (Asmara)13 March 2008Posted to the web 13 March 2008AsmaraIn line with efforts to provide quality and efficient health services across the country, the Haikota and Golij heath centers in the Gash-Barka region will be elevated to the level of community hospitals, the Minister of Health, Mr. Saleh Meki, disclosed in the course of a tour he conducted in the region. Stressing the significance of the move taken in view of the growing number of people in the region, the Minister outlined the major achievements registered in the health sector, especially in reducing child and mother mortality rates and controlling malaria infections. He further underlined the need for more coordinated endeavors on the part of the Ministry, administrative organs and the general public so as to register still greater accomplishment. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);The Administrator of Gash-Barka region, Mr… com (Asmara)13 March 2008Posted to the web 13 March 2008AsmaraIn line with efforts to provide quality and efficient health services across the country, the Haikota and Golij heath centers in the Gash-Barka region will be elevated to the level of community hospitals, the Minister of Health, Mr. Saleh Meki, disclosed in the course of a tour he conducted in the region. Stressing the significance of the move taken in view of the growing number of people in the region, the Minister outlined the major achievements registered in the health sector, especially in reducing child and mother mortality rates and controlling malaria infections. He further underlined the need for more coordinated endeavors on the part of the Ministry, administrative organs and the general public so as to register still greater accomplishment. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);The Administrator of Gash-Barka region, Mr. Kahsai Gebrehiwet, on his part asserted that the regional administration, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and others, would work diligently in combating and controlling cross-country diseases.
2007 status report on health inequalities.
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SOUTH AFRICA: HIV major factor in rising child deaths
Reuters AlertNet – Mar 13, 2008
In total, at least 75,000 children die before their fifth birthday, while 1,600 mothers die due to pregnancy or childbirth complications, according to a report on infant, child and maternal mortality, released at a conference on perinatal care in Johannesburg this week. The authors estimate that more than a third of maternal and child deaths in South Africa are AIDS related. Other factors are poor quality of care during childbirth, failure to prevent and treat childhood infections such as diarrhoea and pneumonia, and poor nutrition and living conditions associated with poverty. “We have the solutions to save lives but they are not reaching those in most need, or they are not being implemented with the quality needed,” the report noted. The authors estimated that at least 40,200 babies and children could be saved every year if government policies and programmes already in place were better implemented and were reaching the entire population. In more than half the deaths, the authors identified “modifiable factors”, such as lapses in both the coverage and quality of care mothers and children received at health facilities… In more than half the deaths, the authors identified “modifiable factors”, such as lapses in both the coverage and quality of care mothers and children received at health facilities. According to health department figures, 41 percent of the more than one million women who attended antenatal clinics in 2006 were never tested for HIV, while antenatal HIV prevalence figures indicate that just less than a third of those women would have been HIV positive. Not only did these women miss the opportunity of receiving the ARV drugs that would have reduced the likelihood of infecting their babies, they did not receive treatment for their HIV infection either. In the majority of maternal deaths, the HIV status was unknown. Children born to HIV-positive mothers are three times less likely to survive, regardless of the infant’s HIV status. Their survival becomes even more precarious if the mother dies, said Mickey Chopra of the Medical Research Council, one of the authors of the report and a presenter at the conference.
