News & Blog - kids

5 Oct 2012
Last month, about 80 global health experts met at the National Academy of Sciences to review the independent evaluation of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria program (AMFm) and to discuss the future of broader febrile illness management and financing. AMFm is an innovative financing mechanism designed to expand access to the most effective treatment for malaria, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), through high-level subsidies.
15 Jun 2012
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first vaccine that protects infants against both meningococcal disease and haemophilus influenza. [Yahoo]