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Mother's Day 2012 - 1,000 days to change the life of a child in Mesoamerica
More than 70 million people live in the countries conforming the Mesoamerican region. Nearly 40 million of them live in a situation of poverty, a plight that punishes women and children in a special way. These two population groups experience high mortality ratios —deaths that in most cases could have been avoided—, and suffer from chronic malnutrition and other illnesses for which there exist standard treatments of proven effectiveness.
State of the World's Mothers 2012
Source: USAID
In commemoration of Mother’s Day, Save the Children is publishing its thirteenth annual State of the Word’s Mother report.
The Carlos Slim Health Institute praises the work of SM2015 Initiative
Mexico DF.- The Carlos Slim Health Institute (ICSS) praised the work carried out by the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative during the celebration of ICSS’s fifth anniversary, which was held in Mexico City on 19 April last. At the same event the V Premios Carlos Slim en Salud were also delivered.
Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
Source: TED Talk
Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine -- with fewer cowboys and more pit crews.
Media Report
Some of the published news about the start of the first SM2015 operations in Mesoamerica.
SM2015 will improve the health of 1.8 million poor women and children in Mesoamerica
Initiative partners announce the start of the first operations at the World Economic Forum on Latin America. The Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative will begin operations in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, and shortly in Costa Rica and Mexico’s state of Chiapas, with investments totaling US$55 million to improve health conditions for some 1.8 million women and children living in extreme poverty in 121 municipalities.
Media advisory
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud (ICSS) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will hold a press conference on Tuesday, April 17 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the World Economic Forum for Latin America to present the latest advancements on Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative.
Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda
Source: TED
Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids.
A Video Series on Nutrition for Practitioners
Source: BILL & MELINDA GATES Foundation
Undernutrition is an under-appreciated cause of about one-third of all deaths in children around the world before their fifth birthday.
Lancet review analyzes equity in interventions in the Maternal Child Countdown to 2015
Source: The Lancet
Last month, the Lancet published a review analyzing inequalities in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions by intervention and country. Although SM2015 countries were not included in this analysis, the message, methodology and findings here are important to groups working to close the health care gap between the rich and the poor. Follow this link to read which countries and interventions were found to be the most inequitable according to the Lancet review.
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