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Foreign Assistance

White House Proposes 9% Increase in Global-Health Funding - Wall Street Journal  -  February 01, 2010     

Clinton v. Kerry: The AID war begins - Foreign Policy  -  January 14, 2010     

A spoonful of ingenuity - Economist  -  January 7, 2010     

Foreign Assistance Reform in 2009: Progress to Build Upon - Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network  -  January 2, 2010     


Nutrition and Food Security

The Plumpy’nut Dustup - Aid Watch  -  April 15, 2010     

Legal fight over Plumpy'nut, the hunger wonder-product - BBC News  -  April 8, 2010     

The Plumpy Crusader - Newsweek  -  March 30, 2010     

Ramping up the fight against child malnutrition - IRIN News  -  March 16, 2010     

The challenge of improving nutrition: facts and figures - Science & Development Network  -  January 20, 2010     

World's Healthiest Food - New York Times  -  January 2, 2010     

Use of new World Health Organization child growth standards to assess how infant malnutrition relates to breastfeeding and mortality - World Health Organization  -  January 2, 2010     


Water & Sanitation and Environmental Issues

Millions Of Children In Developing World Have No Access To Clean Water, Latrines At School, Report Finds - Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report  -  April 8, 2010     

Access to safe drinking water improving; sanitation needs greater efforts - World Health Organization  -  March 15, 2010     

Sanitation Finance for the Poor that Works - World Bank  -  January 25, 2010     


Pneumonia

Revealing China's Advances in Child Survival - Huffington Post  -  April 5, 2010     

Treatment and prevention of pneumonia - World Health Organization  -  April 1, 2010     

WHO Pneumonia Expert Recognized for Efforts to Ensure Children Receive Life-saving Vaccines - Yahoo Finance  -  January 31, 2010     


Diarrhea

Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done - Lancet  -  March 13, 2010     

Diarrhoea vaccine reduces deaths, study finds - University World News  -  February 28, 2010     

Saving lives with rotavirus vaccines - ONE  -  January 28, 2010     


Malaria

Fewer Children Dying of Malaria in Africa - Voice of America  -  April 20, 2010     

Millions spent on malaria but problems remain - Associated Press  -  April 19, 2010     

On World Malaria Day 2010, Africa charts progress in counting malaria out - but major efforts still needed to reach global targets - UNICEF  -  April 19, 2010     

The Many Faces of Malaria - New York Times  -  April 12, 2010     

Short-Circuiting Malaria - Newsweek  -  April 9, 2010     

Artemisinin: the miracle drug against malaria and how we may be losing it - Lancet Student  -  April 6, 2010     

WHO releases new malaria guidelines for treatment and procurement of medicines - World Health Organization  -  March 9, 2010     

Bill Gates-Funded Super Laser Targets, Destroys Buzz - Fast Company  -  February 12, 2010     

Hopes for a New Kind of Malaria Vaccine - TIME  -  January 15, 2010     

Researchers Say New Genetic Map of Malaria Drug Promises Increased Supply - Voice of America  -  January 14, 2010     


HIV/AIDS

Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV - Inter Press Service  -  March 8, 2010     

UN seeks to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Africa - UN News Centre  -  January 11, 2010     


NTDs

Why NTDs Annoy Me - End the Neglect  -  April 8, 2010     

Members of Congress Urge Spending Boost for Neglected Diseases - Voice of America  -  March 31, 2010     

Killer Diseases of Continent's Poor - Daily Nation (Kenya)  -  March 31, 2010     

President’s budget boosts funds for tropical diseases - Vaccine News Daily  -  February 04, 2010     

Socioeconomic aspects of neglected tropical diseases - Lancet  -  January 16, 2010     

Mapping, monitoring, and surveillance of neglected tropical diseases: towards a policy framework - Lancet  -  January 16, 2010     

Integration of control of neglected tropical diseases into health-care systems: challenges and opportunities - Lancet  -  January 9, 2010     


Newborn and Infant Health

Foundation investing more in mothers and newborns - Seattle Times  -  March 30, 2010     

New Study Shows “Kangaroo Mother Care” Reduces Newborn Deaths More than 50 Percent - Save the Children  -  March 26, 2010     

Insight: Impact of early initation of exclusive breastfeeding on newborn deaths - Alive & Thrive  -  February 08, 2010     

Breast feeding for over six months could aid mental health - Reuters AlertNet  -  January 12, 2010     

Don’t forget to breast-feed - Jakarta Post  -  January 2, 2010     

Breast is always best, even for HIV-positive mothers - World Health Organization  -  January 2, 2010     


Maternal Health

Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980—2008 - Lancet  -  April 12, 2010     

Maternal mortality: Why it's a crisis - Globe and Mail  -  January 29, 2010     

Safe Motherhood Revisited - OpEd News  -  January 2, 2010     


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