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Reaching out to the poor

Posted by: Ayesha, Health Adviser, DFID Pakistan, Posted on: 12 August 2014 - Categories: Asia, Girls & Women, Health, Pakistan
Funding from the UK is helping to train community midwives. The target is to deploy 12,000 of them nationwide by 2015. Picture: Saad Mustafa

Pakistan is currently the sixth most populous country in the world – and its population is set to rise to 271 million by 2050. A burgeoning population brings its own set of problems. A high fertility and low contraception rate …

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Working together to save the lives of mums and babies in South Africa

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 26 October 2012 - Categories: Africa, Girls & Women, Health

I am writing this sitting in Johannesburg airport on my way back from a fascinating week in South Africa, where I have been conducting a review of a UK aid supported programme on maternal and child health. The programme supports …

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A silent cheer

Posted by: Christine Mosler, Posted on: 22 June 2011 - Categories: Development Debates, Health

The social media room at last week's GAVI conference was quietly buzzing. People's faces were lit by the blue light of their lap top screens and, in one corner, a steady stream of influential people commented and reported into the …

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Vaccines save lives - every child, everywhere

Posted by: Bill Gates, Posted on: 13 June 2011 - Categories: Development Debates, Health

...Pete Lewis / DFID That’s why increasing access to vaccines for the world’s poorest countries is one of the top priorities of the Gates Foundation, and that’s why today we...

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A voice for the voiceless

Posted by: Christine Mosler, Posted on: 10 June 2011 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Health

I have just returned from a week long trip to Mozambique where I followed a pentavalent vaccine – one that tackles five diseases – from the ministry of health storage unit in the city of Maputo to the arm of …

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A reason to celebrate this Mother's Day

Posted by: Melinda French Gates, Posted on: 1 April 2011 - Categories: Development Debates, Girls & Women, Health

...progress firsthand. On a recent trip to Nairobi, I spoke with a group of women about their children. One mother told me, "I want to bring every good thing to...

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