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.

Fuente: Stanford Social Innovation Review Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Fuente: The Guardian Malaria kills 1.2 million people every year, a finding that has implications for global efforts to eliminate the disease

Fuente: LoveFM With Belize considered a leader in Performance Based Financing, both the Ministry of Health and the SM2015 initiative will join efforts to reduce equity gaps to meet the millennium development goals in the Mesoamerican region.

Fuente: Channel 7 Daily News

Thirty thousand young Belizean women and children are expected to benefit from the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 initiative, a project that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality among the poor. It's an innovative public and private partnership that seeks to reduce health equity gaps in Mesoamerica among the poorest populations.