Medical net helps Kenya slash child malaria deaths
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Kenya on Thursday said it has almost halved malaria deaths among small children by using insecticidal nets, spurring calls for free nets for all to tackle Africa&#39;s biggest killer.
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NEW YORK  - The United Nations (news - web sites)&#39; Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites)) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS (news - web sites) virus as &quot;a
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Children who are treated at home for severe pneumonia do just as well as youngsters admitted to hospital, a finding that could be a boon for health care and medical costs in poor countries.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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A low-cost antibiotic should be given to all children with HIV (news - web sites) in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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Deaths among children infected with HIV in Africa could be almost halved if all those with symptoms were put on a simple, cheap and readily available antibiotic, new research has established.
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The death rate of children infected with HIV in Africa could be cut in half if they were put on an inexpensive antibiotic, according to a study published in The Lancet.
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Infusions of albumin, a blood   protein, could potentially save up to 80 percent of children   who otherwise die from malaria, researchers reported on Friday.
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Blog: The United Nations and a group of U.S. organizations work together to bring the latest medical information to health professionals in poor countries free via the Internet.
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Scientists working in Kenya believe that malaria is helping the spread of Aids across Africa - and vice versa.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Laura Bush picked vegetables and handed out mosquito nets yesterday to emphasize that fighting AIDS in Africa also means tackling some of the continent's even more widespread afflictions -- malnutrition and malaria.
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NAIROBI  - Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Support groups that discuss health issues during pregnancy and after childbirth can help to reduce infant and maternal deaths in poor countries, researchers said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization has turned  to Africa -- where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria  -- for urgently needed new stocks of a Chinese plant needed to  make a key antimalarial drug, a top official said.
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A simple, inexpensive and surprisingly powerful combination of treatments all but wiped out malaria in a group of H.I.V.-positive children in a study, scientists are reporting.
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Scientists have made important progress in their quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and reduce the risk of severe, life-threatening attacks by almost two-thirds.
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Clinical tests of a product candidate to be a vaccine against malaria, the RTS/ASO2A, that were carried out by the Manhica Health Reaserach Centyre, in the southern Mozambican province of Maputo, revealed its efficacy and safety to reduce this disease