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Gates Foundation gives $8.5M to Boston University, Center for Global Health and Development .
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As reported in the Puget Sound Business Journal ... Boston University's Center for Global Health and Development has received an $8.5 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Seattle foundation's funds will support a large-scale neo-natal trial in the African nation of Zambia. BU researchers hope to prove that a simple, inexpensive change in the way newborns are handled can dramatically decrease neo-natal mortality...
... The research group, which already has a strong presence in Zambia, is setting out to prove that using an antiseptic wash called chlorhexidine to clean the umbilicus stump of newborns (the small piece of umbilical cord that remains for about a week after the cord is cut at birth) will improve baby survival rates ... Cell phone technology, which has recently arrived in Zambia, will be used to keep in touch with families during this crucial first week of life...
Read on at: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/12/07/daily1.ht...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in the Puget Sound Business Journal ... Boston University's Center for Global Health and Development has received an $8.5 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Seattle foundation's funds will support a large-scale neo-natal trial in the African nation of Zambia. BU researchers hope to prove that a simple, inexpensive change in the way newborns are handled can dramatically decrease neo-natal mortality...
... The research group, which already has a strong presence in Zambia, is setting out to prove that using an antiseptic wash called chlorhexidine to clean the umbilicus stump of newborns (the small piece of umbilical cord that remains for about a week after the cord is cut at birth) will improve baby survival rates ... Cell phone technology, which has recently arrived in Zambia, will be used to keep in touch with families during this crucial first week of life...
Read on at: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/12/07/daily1.ht...
ENJOY!
CC
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