The News Review:
- South Africa: Forum to Address Mother, Child Health Care
- Poor, rich disparities affect women, children’s health care
- Iowa lawmakers announce $25 million health package for kids
- Health Buzz: Maltreated Infants and Other Health News
- Reuters Health News Summary
- Cameroon: Health Ministry Launches Vaccination Against Poliomyelitis
South Africa: Forum to Address Mother, Child Health Care
AllAfrica.com – Apr 4, 2008
The purpose of the forum, which involves both government and civil society, is to discuss ways in which they can meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in respect to child mortality. The provincial Department of Health will be launching the forum on Friday at the Albert Park in Durban. Area General Manager of the department Dr Mandla Mhlongo said: "Reaching the MDG on reducing child mortality will require universal coverage with key effective, affordable interventions. " GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);These interventions include care for newborns and their mothers; infant and young child feeding; immunisation; prevention and case management of childhood illnesses particularly diarrhoea, pneumonia and sepsis and the prevention of HIV and AIDS and care of such paitents.
Poor, rich disparities affect women, children’s health care
People's Daily Online – Apr 4, 2008
China has been dedicated to health care of women and children, especially mothers, and is on track for achieving Millennium Development Goals, said Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organization’s representative in China. The progress can be seen in the marked drop of the maternal mortality rate (MMR), which fell from 1,500 per 100,000 in 1949 to 51. 2 per 100,000 in 2003, and the infant mortality rate (IMR), which declined from 200 to 25. 5 per 1,000 during the same period.
Iowa lawmakers announce $25 million health package for kids
Marshalltown Times Republican – Apr 4, 2008
The plan announced Thursday is the first time lawmakers have attached money to their pledge to broaden health coverage. The state would spend $4. 8 million this year, then $10 million in each of the next two years to expand child health coverage. ??This will cover all families who need help,?? said Sen. Jack Hatch, D-Des Moines. Hatch, who has pushed hard for the measure, said approval could come in the Senate next week.
Health Buzz: Maltreated Infants and Other Health News
U.S. News & World Report – Apr 4, 2008
Nearly 30,000 infants, particularly, are victims in the first week of life. For most of these babies, the maltreatment was in the form of neglect, which is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as failing to receive basic physical and emotional needs. The report, released by the CDC, was calculated using data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. Wal-Mart Rethinks Its Move on Deborah ShankWal-Mart bought itself a passel of bad publicity recently when it tried to recover its medical costs for a former shelf stocker who suffered brain damage in a car crash and then received a $1 million settlement. But consumers should be aware that this isn’t just a meanie tactic that the company dreamed up on its own.
Reuters Health News Summary
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 4, 2008
2 billion a year in developing nations on dietary supplements and education about the food needs of babies, a study showed on Friday. Such targeted spending to help a billion of the poorest people in Africa and Asia could save millions of lives and bring annual economic benefits of more than $15 billion in lower health bills and longer and more productive lives, it said. Resistant microbe entering hospitals
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals originate in the hospitals themselves, but new research indicates that an increasing number of cases are now being brought into hospitals from the community. The good news is that the community-associated strains appear to present no more danger to patients than the traditional, hospital-associated strains, according to the report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Report says 90,000 U. infants maltreated a year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About one of every 43 U… Africa must make health spending a priority: group
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Africa must make higher health spending a priority if it is to stop rich nations poaching medical staff and cut deaths from the continent’s five biggest killers, an African health campaign group said. Vietnam starts human trials for bird flu vaccine
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam has started clinical trials for developing a human vaccine for the H5N1 virus, researchers said on Thursday in the Southeast Asian country that has recorded 52 deaths from bird flu.
Cameroon: Health Ministry Launches Vaccination Against Poliomyelitis
AllAfrica.com – Apr 4, 2008
The campaign, which runs from April 4-6, targets children from 0 to 59 months. Vaccines against the infection would be administered in three provinces, Southwest, Littoral and Far North. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);It involves a mobile team that moves into all nooks and crannies to vaccinate the children. The mobile team is expected to give two drops of anti-polio vaccine to each child, through the mouth… Vaccines against the infection would be administered in three provinces, Southwest, Littoral and Far North. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);It involves a mobile team that moves into all nooks and crannies to vaccinate the children. The mobile team is expected to give two drops of anti-polio vaccine to each child, through the mouth. According to the Assistant Permanent Secretary of the Enlarged Programme of Immunisation in the Ministry of Health, Dr. David Mekontso, the campaign comes at the heels of a recent discovery of a wild poliovirus in a child in New Bell, Douala. Mekontso held that because of the rapid circulation of the virus, there is need for a strong riposte in order to prevent the virus from spreading and attacking other children. "The Southwest Province is also earmarked for the campaign because it is nearer to Nigeria, which is a country where poliomyelitis is endemic," said Mekontso.
