It’s the NGO’s annual State of the World’s Mothers report and it’s just out and available here from Save the Children. A cause being important and worthy, and a product about it, such as this report, coming from a well-regarded organization, doesn’t mean journalists and others will automatically give them attention. Advocates who want attention [...]

   PORT-AU-PRINCE, 12 February 2010 (IRIN) - Some 300,000 people suffered physical injury during Haiti’s devastating earthquake, but as a day of national mourning was marked exactly one month later, the full extent of the hidden, psychological damage is still unclear in a country with the most rudimentary of mental health infrastructures. ”We are faced with an [...]

Another important IRIN piece in this morning on, as the story says, ”a vaccine for rotavirus - the leading cause of severe and often fatal diarrhoea and dehydration in under-five children.”  At the end of the story are links to IRIN, the Integrated Regional Information Networks, which is a U.N. humanitarian news service. If you’re interested [...]

Stef Schiffer commented on my previous post about what Concern Worldwide was doing for World Malaria Day, arguing that bed nets was just a Western feel-good initiative. The comment included this site, with a well-done video.  Thanks to Stef for telling me about it. The people on the video, many of them first- and second-generation Africans, make a good [...]

Thought I’d reprint a press release that i just got from the United States chapter of Irish NGO, Concern Worldwide, to illustrate how one organization is trying to combat the disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
The secret weapon in fight against global killer
April 25 is World Malaria Day
Malaria kills up to 1 million people each year—mostly children [...]

I applaud President Obama for ending the global gag rule . Also known as the Mexico City policy, the rule required that any international nongovernmental organizations receiving US funding end any abortion services it offered, be it counseling or medical procedures themselves. The restriction impacted groups that provided not only counseling about abortion, but also badly needed [...]