Fuente: London Health Observatory To support Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, the Association of Public Health Observatories and Department of Health have developed the Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit. This is designed to assist evidence-based local service planning and commissioning, including Joint Strategic Needs Assessments.

Fuente: NPR

Seven decades after public health officials thought they'd eradicated dengue fever, the disease has once again become a scourge in Florida. More than 90 cases have been reported there since 2009. The stakes are high: The same mosquito that carries dengue is also a vector for yellow fever. 

Fuente: Goni, Edwin; Lopez, J. Humberto; Serven, Luis income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into income inequality depends...

Fuente: NPR Scientists in Australia are using a bacterium to try to stop a deadly virus in its tracks.

Fuente: The New York Times

Preliminary results from the trial of a malaria vaccine show that it protected nearly half of the children who received it from bouts of serious malaria, scientists said Tuesday.

Fuente: The Guardian As the malaria vaccine continues to prove sceptics wrong, the next obstacle for the World Health Organisation is cost

Fuente: Salud Mesoamerica 2015 The Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative is searching for a Grants/Financial Officer to join the Coordination Unit based in Panamá City (Panama). The Grants/Financial Officer will be responsible of the financial implementation and administration of the SM2015 Initiative.

Fuente: Times Guyana The government of Spain has officially finalised its contribution to the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative (SM2015) – US$42 million, to be disbursed between 2012 and 2016.

Fuente: ODI Background Notes This Background Note reviews the evidence on conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to promote safe motherhood – a concept that spans not only care during pregnancy and childbirth, but access to family planning and equitable health services – comparing them to other approaches to maternal health programming in developing countries.

Fuente: Hawaii Reporter Article of Eric G. Bing, Senior Fellow and Director of Global Health at the George W. Bush Institute, about campaign to improve health in developing countries.