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  1. Man in stripped shirts speaks with two middle-aged men.
    March 5, 2013

    Malaria’s deadly mythology

    PATH’s John Tanko Bawa explains some of the harmful misperceptions about malaria in his own community in Ghana. Ghana is one of the three African countries that will pilot the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S.

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    January 13, 2013

    Seeking and stopping cervical cancer

    January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month—perhaps the only time of the year that people in Europe and North America give even a passing thought to a disease that, in many low-income countries, kills more women than any other type of cancer.

  3. Two young children, one with her arm around the other.
    January 8, 2013

    Cambodia tackles diarrhea and pneumonia

    In Cambodia, an innovative idea to treat pneumonia and diarrhea at the same time—profiled in this post—was so successful that the Ministry of Health plans to join with us and UNICEF to extend the project throughout the country. But the project’s future wasn’t fully assured until just last month, when PATH contributors generously gave us support to help carry the work toward scale-up. Thank you!

  4. Woman in pink print sari smiles at the infant daughter she holds in her arms.
    September 17, 2012

    Millions more children survive past five

    Good news from UNICEF: more children than ever before are surviving beyond their fifth birthdays.

    A new report (5.2 MB PDF) available on UNICEF’s website estimates that the global number of deaths among children under age five has fallen from around 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011. What’s more, UNICEF finds steady reductions in child deaths in all regions of the world over the past two decades.