Press

María Dominga Pineda and her daughter Alison Fabiola at their home in Tambla Lempira, Honduras Tambla Lempira –Honduras- (November. 2016). Marta Leticia Cartagena is 31 years old and lives in Tambla Lempira, a municipality located in one of the poorest regions of Honduras, very closet o the border…

Fuente: The Lancet The 2016 Lancet Early Childhood Development Series highlights early childhood development at a time when it has been universally endorsed in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This Series considers new scientific evidence for interventions, building on the findings and…

Fuente: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition The memory is 25 years old, but remains fresh in Dr. Emma Iriarte’s mind. The first thing she noticed was that the husband had accompanied his wife. Usually in the remote mountain villages of Honduras, women went alone to the doctor to ask about…

Fuente: Devex The information website specialized in development, Devex.com, has included the Mesoamerican Health Initiative as a worldwide example of results—based financing model.

Fuente: CGDEV Especialistas en salud del prestigioso ‘Center for Global Development’ publican un artículo académico sobre nuevos modelos de financiamiento para proyectos de desarrollo, destacando el caso de la Iniciativa Salud Mesoamérica (ISM) [sólo en inglés]

This document is an update of guidance published on 18 February 2016 to provide advice on the prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus.

Fuente: Nejm Zika virus (ZIKV) was first identified in Brazil in 2015 by reverse-transcriptase–polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) assays of serum specimens from patients from the state of Bahia who presented with a denguelike illness that was characterized by rash, fever, myalgias, arthralgias,…

Fuente: Kelly Young Findings from a BMJ meta-analysis may help clinicians better identify women who could benefit from aspirin prophylaxis for preeclampsia...

Fuente: Goats and Soda It used to be common knowledge: Malnourished kids need more protein to thrive. Then came a scathing paper in the Lancet in 1974 called "The Great Protein Fiasco." Filled with sarcasm, it argued that the nutrition community's fixation on protein was a waste of time and money.