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• Global Approach to AIDS Overlooks Children

  A general consensus that has emerged from the International AIDS conference currently being held in Mexico is that the global approach to fighting AIDS does too little for children. According to health workers at the conference, much of the government money earmarked for combating AIDS in developing countries goes to consultants and overheard costs, with little of that money directly helping children. Read More... Posted Aug 07 2008, 12:04 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: children, kids, nutrition, therapy, HIV, AIDS, pregnant women, virus, developing world, poor families, access to drugs, antiretroviral drugs, international AIDS conference, developing countries, overlooking children, mexico city, psychological help

• More Pregnant Women in Developing Countries are Smoking

  Here's a stat to depress the heck out of you: in some developing countries, more than 3/4 of pregnant women have tried cigarettes. Reuters reports on a study released by the National Cancer Institute's Tobacco Control Research Branch. 8,000 women... Read More... Posted Feb 29 2008, 03:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: pregnancy, news, smoking in pregnancy, second hand smoke, developing world