Police say they have arrested a medical doctor for suspected ritual activities and disrespect to the corpse of a 13-month-old baby who died in his hospital. Read more »
Undernutrition debilitates and kills far more children than previously thought and sustains a cycle of poverty, according to new and ongoing research. The Nutrition for Growth ... Read more »
The governments of the UK and Brazil, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), co-hosted a high-level international meeting, Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger ... Read more »
A new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition examines the problems associated with undernutrition and successful interventions. A similar report released by Lancet in 2008 ... Read more »
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences have made an exciting breakthrough in the global fight against the severest forms of malaria. Read more »
Popular artist Omawumi Megbele is putting relentless efforts at lessening the burden of the dreaded malaria disease in Africa through a music-driven enlightenment campaign in the ... Read more »
Women Deliver 2013 concluded today with a call for continued investments in girls and women. The conference was the largest of the decade focused on girls' and women's health and ... Read more »
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A health development organisation is hoping to save two million lives by 2015 by tackling diarrhoea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children globally. Read more »
The UN say that the number of people receiving antiretroviral treatment in Africa had increased from less than one million to 7.1 million in the last seven years. Read more »
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