Agence France-Presse: Polio vaccine fears spread panic in Pakistan “More than 25,000 children were rushed to hospitals in northwest Pakistan after rumors spread that some had suffered reactions to a polio vaccine, officials said Tuesday…” (4/23). The Telegraph: 25,000 children in Pakistan rushed to hospital after spread of false polio…

Devex: Opinion: Ending undernutrition requires a different focus on stunting Jef L. Leroy, senior research fellow in the poverty, health, and nutrition division of the International Food Policy Research Institute, and Edward Frongillo, director of the Global Health Initiatives at the University of South Carolina “…[A recent global spotlight on…

Associated Press: U.N.: Malawi is 1st nation to use malaria vaccine to help kids “The World Health Organization says Malawi has become the first country to begin immunizing children against malaria, using the only licensed vaccine to protect against the mosquito-spread disease. Although the vaccine only protects about one-third of…

VOA News: The Promise and Peril of Vaccines in World Vaccination Week “…As the world marks World Immunization Week humans have much to celebrate. Smallpox has been effectively eradicated from the world, and according to the World Health Organization, more children than ever are getting routine vaccinations every year. And…

NPR: A Promising Anti-HIV Drug Poses A Dilemma “…[A new study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine] estimated what could happen if millions of poor HIV-positive African women of child-bearing age were given the new, more effective drug [that in a separate study was associated with an…

Agence France-Presse: Yemen risks ‘massive resurgence’ of cholera: Oxfam (4/19). Bloomberg: Cholera Hits Kenyan Capital on Shortage of Clean Water: Report (Doya, 4/20). The Guardian: ‘The harder you look the more you find’: Nepal’s hidden leprosy (Ratcliffe, 4/22). Health Policy Watch: DNDi: ‘Bench-To-Bedside’ Approach Needed For Drug & Vaccine Response…

U.N. News: ‘Vaccines are safe’ and save lives, UNICEF declares, launching new #VaccinesWork campaign “Amid a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Thursday a new social media campaign, emphasizing that ‘vaccines are safe, and they save lives.’ To inspire…

The Guardian: ‘I don’t know how my children will survive’: Zimbabwe in crisis “…Before Cyclone Idai wreaked havoc on eastern Zimbabwe last month, the country was already in the grip of a food crisis. El Niño had left 70% of the country’s population in desperate need of aid after the…

The Conversation: India: widespread food insecurity may be damaging children’s ability to learn — and the future economy Jasmine Fledderjohann, lecturer at Lancaster University; Elisabetta Aurino, lecturer at Imperial College London; Sukumar Vellakkal, assistant professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science “…India is in the midst of a ‘learning…

The Telegraph: World watches as U.K. announces it will drop key childhood vaccine to two doses “The U.K. is set to become the first country in the world to cut a key childhood vaccine from three to two doses in a move that experts hope will encourage poorer countries to…