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Disease Control Priorities - Essential Priorities
Disease Control Priorities: Essential surgery (24.03.2015)
Improving access to surgical care could save 1.5 million lives per year in poor countries, according to findings released today by the Disease Control Priorities Network at University of Washington’s Department of Global Health.
One of the babies in the Indian study receives its Vitamin A dose.
Can Vitamin A supplements help improve child survival? (04.03.2015)
About 6.9 million children younger than 5 years die every year worldwide; 43% of these deaths occur within the first 4 weeks of life; the neonatal period. India is one of the countries that is worst off - a quarter of all neonatal deaths in the world occur in India alone.
Kesheni Senkoro
In memory of Kesheni Senkoro (03.03.2015)
We are very sad to inform that Kesheni Senkoro, a PhD student in the research group on Global Health Priorities, recently passed away during his data collection in Tanzania.