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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.

Giving zinc to newborns being treated with antibiotics for serious infections appears to save lives, according to a new study done in India.

Fuente: The Economist IN A windowless room on a quiet street in Framingham, outside Boston, Rob Goudswaard and his colleagues are trying to unpick the knottiest problem in health care: how to look after an ageing and thus sickening population efficiently.

Fuente: TED Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others, and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, Mr. Rosling graphs data over time and across religions.