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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