Aeras, GSK deal to Advance TB Vaccine research
War against tuberculosis has gone a notch higher following an agreement between Aeras and GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, S.A. (GSK) to provide resources to run a multi-center proof of concept clinical trial to test a vaccine candidate in healthy adults between 18 and 50 years of age in Kenya, South Africa and India beginning next year pending [...]
Political Prisoner Zanyar Moradi Denied Medical Treatment
According to reliable sources from Iran, Iranian officials have denied medical treatment to Zanyar Moradi, a political prisoner on death row. The head of the prison ward reportedly had recommended Zanyar Moradi undergo surgical treatment recently. Sources have informed IHR that Zanyar Moradi suffers from severe back pain and other medical conditions which require treatment. [...]
Novel program shows strong promise in malaria prevention
A large scale malaria prevention program, consisting of intermittent distributions of anti-malaria medicines, appears to be drastically reducing the number of new cases of the disease among young children during peak transmission season, according to preliminary results from projects run by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in two African [...]
Child deaths fall to a new low
According to the United Nations for the first time the number of annual child deaths have fallen below seven million. “The new child mortality estimates show that concerted efforts to get proven lifesaving care to children work and that, in the 21stcentury, children no longer need to die from preventable causes,” said Carolyn Miles, President [...]
Civil Society angry at Kenya government’s attempt to develop a Health Act
A committee in Kenya’s Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation charged with drafting the Heath Bill has come under scathing attack from members of the civil society for being autocratic and failing to take alternative views from the technical people working outside government circles. At a recent meeting of the CSOs, the groups proposed the [...]
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