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February 16, 2016

Female Genital Mutilation Cutting

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a human rights issue that affects girls and women worldwide. Over the last few years, the United Nations have been working to end the practice of cutting women’s genitals, a practice that is still frequent in countries such as Burkina Faso, Egypt, Kenya, Liberia and Togo. Continuing an agreement adopted in 2012 in the United Nations General Assembly, on 2015, in the new set of development goals – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a

February 12, 2016

Microcephaly in Brazil: how to interpret reported numbers?

Professor Victora with collaborators have published a paper in the Lancet jornal in wich they recomend that “national and international agencies should refrain from reporting suspected cases and speed up investigation to report on confirmed cases with laboratory or radiological evidence”. Read the full paper here.  

February 05, 2016

Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health

Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health: measurement approaches and challenges The paper from Ahmad Hosseinpoor; Nicole Bergen; Aluisio Barros; Kerry Wong; Ties Boerma e Cesar Victora describes and compares different methods to estimate subnational and regional inequalities, using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and Zimbabwe. This paper is available at BioMed Central    

February 05, 2016

Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect

Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect The paper published in January 2016 by professor Victora and his collaborators is part of a series on breastfeeding in The Lancet journal, having large repercussion national and internationally. The research points that “The scaling up of breastfeeding to a near universal level could prevent 823.000 annual deaths in children younger than 5 years and 20.000 annual deaths from breast cancer.” The f

February 04, 2016

ICEH was visited by Joao Baptista Humbwawali from Angola

On 18th and 19th January this year, ICEH was visited by João Baptista Humbwawali, doctoral student at UFRGS. A nurse and college professor in Angola, João came here to get to know the work carried out in Pelotas for future academic collaborations.

February 01, 2016

Women and girls in the center of development

 Representing the ICEH, Fernanda Ewerling went to Delhi and Jharkhand, India, to participate to a week of meeting and roundtables on India’s women lives and empowerment, discrimination and abuse, violence, and on laws and policies that influence women and girls’ health and development outcomes. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has put women and girls as one of the priorities in their investments both globally and in India, headed all these meetings. The visit to the

December 10, 2015

The 2015 Report: A Decade of Tracking Progress for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival

The 2015 Report, A Decade of Tracking Progress for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival, includes an updated country profile for each of the 75 Countdown countries, which together account for more than 95% of the world’s maternal, newborn, and child deaths. Read more

December 10, 2015

Equity: A platform for achieving the SDGs and promoting human rights

We support a focus on measuring and improving equity for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals while advancing social justice and human rights. Read more..