Potential For Eradicating Pediatric HIV

A clinical study of anti-HIV/AIDS medicines in the developing world is on the verge of turning “the whole treatment world on its head,” according to Dartmouth pediatrician Paul Palumbo…

Also In Global Health News: Global Moms Act; NIH, PEPFAR Grants; ARVs In Kenya; Secretary Clinton, Warren Buffett Discuss Global Health

Women’s eNews Examines Global Moms Act Women’s eNews examines the Global Moms Act, which among other efforts, “seeks to make C-sections more available to women in the developing world.” Officially called the “Global Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes While Maximizing Successes Act” and introduced in the House by Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif…

Capitol Hill Hearing Examines Health, Social Consequences Of Child Marriage

VOA News covered a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, which addressed child marriage in the developing world and its impact on girls and communities (Presto, 7/15). “The hearing addressed the causes and consequences of child marriage and encouraged legislators to pass the International Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2009 (S.987/H.R…

Maternal Health Remains 'Burning Issue' In Developing World, Opinion Piece Says

The “burning issue on maternal health in the world’s poorest countries is for women to take control of their own bodies and for their choices to be respected: when to have children, how often to have children, if to have children at all,” columnist Marie Staunton writes in The Guardian…

New York Times Columnist Calls For Investments In Global Family Planning

Although topics such as AIDS, tsunamis and earthquakes make for “dramatic” and “visceral” news about the developing world, there is “a far more widespread challenge, one that’s also more fixable: the unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. Kristof notes that the birth control pill, “50 years old this month in the [U.S…

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