Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health This past winter, yaws was in the media spotlight in Spain after the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study which confirmed it is possible to eradicate this disease. The World Health Organisation plans to do it by 2020. The news, which hit the headlines in February, led to...
Training & Education The International Health Track of the ISGlobal - University of Barcelona Master of Clinical Research attracts a growing number of highly motivated students. Apart from acquiring sound technical skills and imaginative design capacities, our future investigators appreciate how health research...
Training & Education Fenella Beynon is a medical doctor from the UK. After working for four years in general hospital medicine in her country, she moved to Mexico, where she worked as a research assistant while she continued her medical work as a volunteer. By then, she had decided she wanted to focus her career...
Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Director of the Center of Maternal and Child Health at Aga Khan University and Professor at the Hospital for Sick Children of Toronto, gave the seventh Global Health Lecture on July 3 rd , at the CaixaForum in Barcelona. After the lecture, he...
Immunization The fact that vaccines have made it possible to protect the population against a series of diseases can give rise to the perception that the risk of vaccination outweighs the benefits The recent very sad case of a 6-year-old boy who contracted diphtheria and had not been vaccinated...
Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Morocco has made great strides on maternal and child health, but newborn mortality remains a challenge Since the 90s and especially during the last decade, Morocco has made significant improvement in terms of maternal and child health (MCH). Continuous efforts during two decades resulted in...
Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health ,Ebola What follows is an account of our experience at the Maternity of Saint Joseph Catholic hospital in Monrovia There are so many ways to become famous; unfortunately West Africa will mark human being history by being the area on Earth which experienced the worst Ebola outbreak. Ebola disease...
