One big lesson we have learned since Typhoon Haiyan? Resilience matters.
New platforms to pay individual medical costs.
A guest post from a top UN official in the country.
The past two decades, immunization efforts have averted an estimated 20 million deaths globally. Yet, for all the progress that has been made--thanks largely to a sustained investment from the United States, the United Nations, other governments, and private partnerships--a great need remains.
A huge opportunity for immunisation advocacy has arisen as Pakistan became the first country in South Asia to introduce pneumococcal vaccine.
Haider, a 50-year-old Afghan who fought against the Soviet invasion but now guards a cell phone tower against insurgents, helped journalists covering a Taliban attack on a hotel in Kabul.
In a special guest post, Christopher J. Elias, president and CEO of the international nonprofit global health organization PATH, wonders why more people in the vaccine community were not celebrating when a notorious study of the Austism-Vaccine link was declared a fraud.
The following is the first installment of a series of guest posts from participants in the November 8-10, 2010 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., organized by the Foundation for the National Institutes for Health (NIH) in partnership with the mHealth Alliance and NIH.