Pakistan Attacks Pneumonia With Free Vaccine
Medical practitioners at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH), a leading government-run children’s hospital in Karachi, hope that this will be the last winter they have to treat a stream of...
View ArticleMDGs a Distant Dream for Nepali Children
Currently classified as one of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Nepal has one of the highest malnutrition rates globally, with over 41 percent of children suffering from chronic...
View ArticleTreating Malnutrition Moves From the Hospital to the Home
When nine-month-old Borsha was admitted to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh last January, she was on the verge of death. Suffering from a condition called severe...
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Why Focus on Babies?
I nearly died on the day I was born. My mother laboured for 24 hours in a bush hospital in northern Uganda that had no running water and no electricity. Fortunately, the midwife found a doctor, who had...
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