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Fuente: The Economist FROM a swimming pool halfway up Latin America’s tallest skyscraper, tourists and businessmen gaze out towards the fast-expanding fringes of Panama City. Off the Pacific coast, ships line up to enter the Panama Canal, ferrying Christmas presents from China to the east coast of…

Fuente: University of Washington Pregnancy-related infections are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality worldwide, with the burden falling disproportionately on low- and middle-income countries. Bundled packages of interventions targeted at these different syndromes should be integrated…

Fuente: BMJ Open Accessible Medical Research A model for scale up of family health innovations in low-income and middle income settings: a mixed methods study.

Fuente: Impatient Optimists blog, BMGF Yesterday, on Impatient Optimists, Jennifer James of Mom Bloggers for Social Good profiled three projects in sub-Saharan Africa to save the lives of women and newborns. She wrote, “If we can replicate these programs, bring them to other countries or regions,…

Fuente: Government of Canada The Goverment of Canada launches the fourth round of this unique program that enables innovators in low- and lower-middle-income countries and Canada to develop their bold idea with big impact to improve global health conditions.

Fuente: The Lancet Of the 555 million preschool children in developing countries, 32% are stunted and 20% are underweight. Child underweight or stunting causes about 20% of all mortality of children younger than 5 years of age and leads to long-term cognitive deficits, poorer performance in school…

Fuente: UNICEF/Cornell University This e-learning course, free of charge, is organized by UNICEF and the Cornell University. It has 12 units, a final exam and a course evaluation survey. Participants will receive a personalized certificate of completion worth 12 continuing professional education…

Fuente: The Economist Family planning returns to the international development agenda after the London Family Planning Submit.

Fuente: Financial Times Special FT report on sexual and reproductive health. The issue talk about contraception, access to products, birth control, family planning, education, maternal mortality and politics.