The News Review:
- Botswana: UB Health Fair Meant to Clear the Air
- Health care must be scaled up to reduce maternal and child deaths
- Gambia: 15 Peace Corps Volunteers Sworn-In
- The damaged generation: Over a million children have mental health…
- Cell Phone Users Gain Mobile Access To Health Data
- G8 action urged to avert six million mother and child deaths every…
- Something familiar about the big ideas
Botswana: UB Health Fair Meant to Clear the Air
AllAfrica.com – Apr 21, 2008
Second year Bachelor of Science student Oteng Legadiko, said they made a research into common diseases in Botswana, hence their stall looked at breast and cervix cancer. He said most people who visited the pavilion were interested in their course, and asked questions about how to diagnose cancer and where they could get the necessary help. Babili Bukha and Lauretha Ugokwe from the Environmental Health class said they discussed issues of child safety and how to keep medication away from children. "We teach the public about the importance of buying toys that are lead-free and that they should not leave tins of paints at the disposal of children," Bukha said. Meanwhile, Odirile Thamage said that the fair would help raise awareness about the Stop Smoking Support Group. "We would also like to recruit members to our society and raise funds through a sponsored walk, to be able to get a toll free centre and have our own office," he said. Relevant LinksSouthern AfricaBotswanaEducationHealth and MedicineThe fair had environmental health, pre-medicine, nursing, pre-pharmacy students in an effort to nurture contact among themselves, the health professionals and the general public.
Health care must be scaled up to reduce maternal and child deaths
Mathaba.Net – Apr 21, 2008
In addition, 16 of the 68 countries are now ‘on track’ to achieving Goal number 4 on reducing child mortality. The report urges Governments and their partners to improve health care for women and children, including by tackling obstacles such as weak health systems, funding shortages and inequalities in access. And while donor funding for maternal, newborn and child health has risen in recent years, resulting in significant health gains, health systems remain "grossly under-funded" relative to the needs, it adds.
Gambia: 15 Peace Corps Volunteers Sworn-In
AllAfrica.com – Apr 21, 2008
The ceremony brought together government representatives, Embassy staff, Peace Corps staff, Gambian families who hosted the volunteers during their training period, and media practitioners. The new batch of volunteers in The Gambia will be serving in health and community development project, through a partnership between Peace Corps The Gambia, the Department of Health and Social Welfare, the Department of Community Development and other collaborators. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);In his speech Ambassador Barry Wells underscored the importance of improving the health status and quality of life. He then acknowledged the importance of the volunteers’ role in strengthening the relationship between The Gambia and the United StatesSpeaking earlier, Sulayman Samba, Permanent Secretary at the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare, pointed out that the partnership between Peace Corps and The Gambia augers very well for the implementation of the project, which focuses on improving health status and quality of life, particulary of women, children and youth. Considering that morbidity and mortality rates are unacceptably high in The Gambia, he noted that such a trend is caused by health problems related to low awareness about health issues, poverty and poor environment conditions. "Infants, children and women continue to bear the brunt of malaria, diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections, malnutrition and problems associated with pregnancy and childbirth," he explained… Considering that morbidity and mortality rates are unacceptably high in The Gambia, he noted that such a trend is caused by health problems related to low awareness about health issues, poverty and poor environment conditions. "Infants, children and women continue to bear the brunt of malaria, diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections, malnutrition and problems associated with pregnancy and childbirth," he explained. As a result, he indicated that at the level of the Department of State, more resources have been deployed in order to implement a comprehensive essential health care package that integrates the management of childhood illness and promotes reproductive and child health. He went further to say that Peace Corps’ Health and Community Development project seeks to improve personal hygiene and environment sanitation practices in order to reduce the incidence of malaria and diarrhoael disease. "The project is therefore relevant and addresses priorities of the Development of State and indeed of the Government of The Gambia, particularly Millenium Developments Goals," he added. For his part, Ronald A. Tschetter, United States Peace Corps Director, recalled that "more than 1,400 volunteers have served in The Gambia" since their first coming in1967.
The damaged generation: Over a million children have mental health…
Daily Mail – Apr 21, 2008
They are expected to be encouraged to praise their children more frequently instead of repeatedly criticising them, while also establishing clear boundaries. The fifth in a series of six themed reports, the study to be published on Thursday will focus on children’s health, examining their behaviour and feelings of self-worth. The inquiry team is headed by Stephen Scott, professor of child health and behaviour at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. It is expected to refer to figures released by the Institute last year, which showed that the number of teenagers with emotional and behavioural problems doubled between 1974 and 1999, the latest statistical group available. The problems of social networking sites such as Bebo and MySpace, which may increase pressure on children to be ‘cool’ or ’skinny’ are also likely to be cited.
Cell Phone Users Gain Mobile Access To Health Data
InformationWeek – Apr 21, 2008
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G8 action urged to avert six million mother and child deaths every…
Politics.co.uk – Apr 21, 2008
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Note for editors: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health brings together more than 240 member organizations from around the world working towards Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 on child survival and maternal health. For more information, visit:… This mutual engagement is critical to reach the MDGs. ”
The Partnership statement addresses not just G8 nations but all donor governments as well as business leaders. While donor funding for maternal, newborn and child health has increased significantly in the past few years, from US$2. 1 billion in 2003 to almost US$3. 5 billion in 2006, it remains far below the total funding needs of the 68 countries identified as accounting for 97% of maternal and child deaths worldwide. According to the most recent data, donor aid for health averaged US$7 per child and US$12 per live birth in the 68 Countdown countries. This is far less than the US$45 per person expenditure which is the minimum needed for governments to ensure access to basic health services.
Something familiar about the big ideas
The Australian – Apr 21, 2008
Mr Rudd has already promised a range of policies to reduce the gap and has undertaken to report each year to parliament on his progress. One new idea in health was for a requirement that, by 2020, all people working in sedentary jobs would have to engage in at least 30 minutes a day of physical activity and that offices would have to ensure stairwells were open to encourage employees to walk more. The Prime Minister’s own summit proposal of integrating childcare, child health and preschools services is already policy in the ACT and the summit’s call for the establishment of a world-class broadband system is identical to the Government’s proposed broadband network. Government sources said yesterday Mr Rudd had never promised that all ideas presented at the summit would be completely original and the Government was interested to hear of new ways of achieving the aims of existing ideas. module-content –>.
