Melvin Sanicas

Melvin Sanicas, a public health physician and vaccinologist, is a regional medical expert at Sanofi Pasteur.

The two best ways to reduce infant mortality

One of the more ambitious targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the commitment to end preventable deaths of newborns and children over the next decade. If this target is met, by 2030 no country will have a neonatal mortality rate above 12 deaths per 1,000 births—a quarter of the current rate in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.

A year of successes in global health

In the field of human development, the year that just ended was better than many predicted it would be.

August 6, 2018
August 6, 2018

The two best ways to reduce infant mortality

One of the more ambitious targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the commitment to end preventable deaths of newborns and children over the next decade. If this target is met, by 2030 no country will have a neonatal mortality rate above 12 deaths per 1,000 births—a quarter of the current rate in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.

January 29, 2018
January 29, 2018

A year of successes in global health

In the field of human development, the year that just ended was better than many predicted it would be.

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