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ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, U.S. scientists committed to finding answers to reducing and eliminating what are known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that plague the world's poorest people in developing countries, urged the FDA to include in its orphan classification the neglected infections of poverty that also affect Americans, and expressed support for stronger relationships with the FDA to ultimately halt these ancient scourges. In testimony presented at the FDA...
NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the Millennium Development Goals Summit comes to a close in New York, CARE is urging the international community to continue the momentum and act on their promises. After months of negotiations, governments agreed on an Outcome Document outlining specific recommendations on how to move forward on the MDGs. Although it does not list specific funding commitments, it calls for annual progress reports, plus another special MDG summit in 2013....
Leaders Rally to Rapidly Deliver Life-Saving Interventions to Save Children and Support Women in AfricaAmidst Reports that Current Interventions are Saving 200,000 lives per year NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Prominent leaders in global health and development joined several African heads of state at UN Headquarters today to announce new commitments to accelerate progress toward ending deaths from malaria, a disease that claims the lives of more than 850,000 Africans each...
- Progress against key targets is encouraging; more is possible with renewed determination - NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A strategy to inspire the world to fulfill promises to save the lives of millions of the world's most marginalized, impoverished and under-served children and women will get significant backing from major humanitarian organizations. Kevin Jenkins, president of World Vision International, will address the global leaders convened to launch the United...
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- An eminent international panel of judges has selected Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) to receive a World Business and Development Award for demonstrating what can be achieved through successful partnerships in the battle against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Lilly was chosen because the activities of The Lilly MDR-TB Partnership demonstrate a clear linkage between vital business practices and a contribution toward achieving the...
U.S. Strategy Focuses on Nutrition of Pregnant Women, Young Children NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CARE President and CEO Helene Gayle was among those applauding Tuesday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled a plan to combat child malnutrition and hunger by focusing on the first 1,000 days of life. In her speech before a UN summit designed to speed progress toward Millennium Development Goals, Clinton laid out details of a strategy she announced in May at...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can still be achieved if practical measures are taken quickly, international children's organization Plan said today. The United Nations has admitted that without a concerted effort, attempts to meet the goals to reduce global poverty by 2015 will fail in most areas. But children's charity Plan International--founded in 1937 and actively working in 60 countries--says action in three key areas over the...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid today called on world leaders to increase funding for reproductive health, including family planning, and place women's health at the centre of their national plans. "Now is the time to move from speech lines to budget lines," said Ms. Obaid at an event during the MDG Summit which started today at the United Nations. "Women deliver for their families, communities and nations, and now it is time...
New report by international child-focused agency cites lack of access for under-served householdsGlobal efforts to tackle millions of preventable child and maternal deaths will fail to extend gains unless world leaders act now to pour more healthcare resources directly into families and communities, according to a new World Vision report launched today."The Missing Link: Saving children's lives through family care" examines how the resources invested to achieve Millennium...
Educational gender gap closing; findings offer new path for accelerating progress in child healthWomen are advancing further in school than at any time in recent history, a trend that is having a tremendous impact on child mortality, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.Between 1970 and 2009, mortality in children under age 5 dropped from 16 million to 7.8 million annually, and IHME researchers estimate that 51%...
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a lentivirus, causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) which is a condition in humans were the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection is transferred through bodily fluids where HIV is present as both free virus particles and within infected immune cells. The four most common routes of infection are unsafe sex, contaminated needles, breast milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her...
