Archive | November, 2010

No money no treatment?

“No money no treatment?” was the slogan of a stunt organised by Action for Global Health’s German partners Welthungerhilfe, Terre des Hommes and the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) in co-operation with Oxfam Germany and Save the Children Germany. The groups called for the removal of user fees for medical treatment in developing countries. [...]

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A Call to Action for World Pneumonia Day – Friday, November 12

How is it possible that a disease can kill more than 1.5 million tiny children every year and that hardly anybody knows about it? Even more astonishing is the fact that a million of these deaths could be prevented by simple interventions that already exist. Pneumonia is the largest killer of children under five, but [...]

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