The Primates World Relief and Development Fund’s MNCH programs in Mozambique and Bangladesh were profiled in the Toronto Star today. About 70 bicycle ambulances have been delivered so far in Mozambique and another 50 are expected to be delivered, said Zaida Bastos, a program coordinator with Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, the Anglican Church [...]

UNICEF has just released a new report entitled: Improving Child Nutrition, The Achievable Imperative for Global Progress. The report offers evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. Stunting damages the very core of children [...]

DELHI, INDIA–(Marketwired – April 3, 2013) - UNICEF Canada and Teck Resources Limited (Teck) launched a new $5 million program today under the Zinc Alliance for Child Health (ZACH) that will save over 150,000 children’s lives in India. The program aims to scale up the use of zinc supplementation and oral rehydration salts (ORS) to treat [...]

April 5 marks the 1000-day milestone towards the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a development framework to improve lives worldwide. On that day, a community of individuals, organizations, and institutions will come together to celebrate success so far, reinvigorate discussion on the MDGs themselves, and begin to advance a post-2015 development framework that builds on [...]

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is seeking to retain the services of a Senior Health Advisor to provide management advice and technical support, specifically in the area of health programming, to the CIDA team located in the Development Cooperation Section of the Canadian High Commission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Senior Health Advisor [...]

Healthy Child Uganda project is pleased to announce we have openings for two Canadian youth interns, for the May/June to November 2013 period.  POSITIONS: 1) HEALTH INTERN, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH): supporting implementation of MNCH Friendly Health Centre Program, strengthening antenatal and postnatal care, nutrition and care for ill children, in addition to [...]

CORE Group, in collaboration with multiple partner and member organizations, has produced a range of state-of-the-art tools, curricula and technical resources for community health. The CORE Group website hosts a broad array of Program Planning Tools, Technical Reference Materials, Monitoring and Evaluation Tools and Collaboration Materials. To Access any of these tools please visit: http://www.coregroup.org/resources/core-tools#  

Catapult wants you to join or create a team to raise funds for change for girls and women around the world! Melinda Gates is one of Catapults’s newest curators, and anything you donate to one of her curated projects, will be matched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.   For more information visit:  http://www.catapult.org/about/what-is-catapult [...]

About the “Born in Silence” Video Approximately 3 million babies are stillborn each year throughout the world. In the U.S., that’s one baby, one family, every 21 minutes. In partnership with parents who have experienced a stillbirth, The Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth ( GAPPS) created a video called Born in Silence , with the goal [...]

The Institute of Health: Science, Technology and Policy cordially invite you to a public lecture and book signing: Cross-Disciplinary Action to Address the Challenge of Global Maternal Health by Dr. Gretchen Roedde Date: Friday, March 22, 2013 Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm Location: Residence Commons, 2nd Floor Boardroom (207), Carleton University  PLEASE register by March 18th at http://events.carleton.ca/cross-disciplinary-action-to-address-the-challenge-of-global-maternal-health/     [...]