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29 Apr 2020

Bangladesh

A good news story: how Bangladesh is winning the fight against childhood pneumonia

Bangladesh’s success in expanding the pneumococcal vaccine has been a huge step forward in reducing child deaths from pneumonia. But further work is needed.
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23 Apr 2020

Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s amazing ‘Doctor Apas’

Over the last 3 years, we’ve worked with the government of Bangladesh and other partners to develop the National Strategy for Community Health Workers.
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22 Apr 2020

Uk

Making a virtual parliament work

From navigating digital meetings to the challenge of keeping up morale in the virtual sphere, many of us have experienced the ups and downs of working from home in the past month. As Parliament is about to come up against the same issues, I’ve drawn on what we’ve learned over the past month to offer some key tips.
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20 Apr 2020

GLOBAL

Coronavirus pandemic: an update from our CEO

We are all struggling to come to terms with the scale, severity and global reach of the Coronavirus pandemic.  At this critical juncture, I wanted to briefly set out how Save the Children is responding to what is the gravest humanitarian challenge in our organisation’s history. When we were founded 100 years ago, countries around […]

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17 Apr 2020

GLOBAL

Even in the toughest of times, we can do better by Britain’s kids

The Government has already done a lot for workers, but we would love to see some extra help for our youngest citizens too. Despite the steps that have been taken, many children will still be struggling.
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16 Apr 2020

GLOBAL

Covid-19: one global health priority among many

Why keeping existing health programmes going in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic is imperative to avoid millions of deaths worldwide. The coronavirus has been spreading rapidly across the world and numbers of confirmed cases and deaths keep rising. As we all witnessed countries shutting down in an effort to slow the progression of the […]

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14 Apr 2020

Africa, Asia

Lessons from civil society resilience as we face COVID-19

“Adapt, Improvise, Overcome – the human spirit will always survive” These are the words of advice a colleague who worked in Ebola affected areas sent to me at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. I expected something much more technical and practical. He is right of course. At a certain point, it’s the spirit and […]
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09 Apr 2020

GLOBAL

What does COVID-19 mean for breastfeeding?

All information in this blog was checked at the time of writing, for up-to-date advice on COVID-19 and breastfeeding please look to WHO and UNICEF  Two years ago, I was packing my hospital bag, getting ready to go into hospital for the birth of my baby girl. About a week before the birth I was screened for MRSA. This made me briefly worry […]

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