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Fuente: UNICEF/Cornell University This e-learning course, free of charge, is organized by UNICEF and the Cornell University. It has 12 units, a final exam and a course evaluation survey. Participants will receive a personalized certificate of completion worth 12 continuing professional education…

Fuente: The Economist Family planning returns to the international development agenda after the London Family Planning Submit.

Fuente: Financial Times Special FT report on sexual and reproductive health. The issue talk about contraception, access to products, birth control, family planning, education, maternal mortality and politics.

Giving zinc to newborns being treated with antibiotics for serious infections appears to save lives, according to a new study done in India.

Fuente: The Economist IN A windowless room on a quiet street in Framingham, outside Boston, Rob Goudswaard and his colleagues are trying to unpick the knottiest problem in health care: how to look after an ageing and thus sickening population efficiently.

Fuente: TED Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others, and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, Mr. Rosling graphs data over time and across religions.

Fuente: World Health Organization 2012 WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank estimates

Fuente: USAID In commemoration of Mother’s Day, Save the Children is publishing its thirteenth annual State of the Word’s Mother report.

Fuente: 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…