Sentences with phrase «child in the developing world»

For his pioneering work in understanding the role of vitamin A supplementation in preventing blindness and life - threatening infections in children in the developing world.

What could go wrong when you put the power of the Internet and solar cells into the hands of children in the developing world?

The average child in the developed world owns more than 200 toys but plays with... wait for it... only 12 of them!

The average child in the developed world owns over 200 toys but only plays with 12 of them on average per day!

I still don't see these huge dangers that formula presents for most children in the developed world.

One in five children in the developing world do not receive vaccines, leading to two million needless deaths each year.

It is thought to be caused by the onslaught of intestinal infections many children in the developing world are exposed to.

This report offers multiple and detailed perspectives on how the recession has affected children in the developed world.

For children in the developing world who have lost limbs because of war or untreated medical issues, access to inexpensive prostheses could be life changing.

The proportion of children in the developing world who receive standard vaccines is now bordering on 75 percent.

And its «one for one» business model — which initially had the company donate a pair of shoes to needy children in the developing world for each pair it sold — has inspired scores of copycats.

There is real evidence that extended breastfeeding benefits children in the developing world, where young children are challenged by malnutrition and greater exposure to infectious diseases, which is why the World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for two years.

Underwood, German, and their colleagues believe it will have major potential, not just for preemies but for babies and small children in the developing world who suffer high rates of other gut infections leading to diarrheal disease.

«Children in developing world infected with parasite — even without appearing ill — may be more prone to stunted growth: Cryptosporidium infects more than 75 percent of poor children in Bangladeshi slum; more than half experience stunting.»

Bacterial infections of the gut are one reason children in the developing world are malnourished, and malnourishment can lead to a poorer response to oral vaccines.

Compared with children in developed countries, children in the developing world show a poorer response to oral vaccines (such as oral polio vaccine), whereas their response to vaccines that are administered systemically by injection (such as measles vaccine) doesn't appear to be much different.

One of the runners in Sunday's New York City Marathon is 64, completely blind, and running for a great cause: helping children in the developing world...

Basic computer skills were picked up rapidly with the aid of some mathematics and spelling games, and it didn't take long for the students to find that innate spark of curiousity that children in the developed world seem to have when it comes to technology.

Among the ironies here was the impetus such political activity imparted to blocking the production of so - called «golden rice,» a nutritionally enhanced GM grain that public health advocates hailed for the contribution it could make to combating afflictions (including preventable blindness) in malnourished children in the developing world.

The company makes 2» - fucosyllactose from yeast and bacteria and is working toward marketing a nutritional supplement for children in the developing world, where diarrheal diseases kill more than a million of them a year.

Although vaccines already exist for some causes of diarrhea, finding a fix for enterotoxigenic E. coli, the leading bacterial cause of diarrhea in children in the developing world, has proved to be difficult.

He argues, for example, that getting Vitamin A and zinc to 80 percent of the 140 million children in the developing world who lack them is a higher priority than cutting carbon emissions.

Just attempting to distribute millions of laptops to children in the developing world is ambitious enough.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

«A vaccine would be a true lifesaver for children in the developing world.»

Encouraging scientists, governments, and corporations to participate in cooperative programs that provide life - saving technologies to marginalized people (e.g., pharmaceutical companies working with human rights organizations to make AIDS drugs available to children in the developing world);

She participated in the Children's Vaccine Initiative, a global effort to prevent infectious diseases in children in the developing world.

WorldReader's mission to provide e-books to all children in the developing world is supported by donations, as well as partners helping out in various areas, such as web design, scanning, and Kindle covers.

Pencils of Promise, or PoP, is a non-profit founded in 2008 to increase access to quality education — a mission that resonates strongly with us at CommonBond — for children in the developing world.

Board Director Erika previously served as the Executive Director of Lotus Outreach International, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit that works to expand access to education and economic opportunity for tens of thousands of women and children in the developing world.

All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to The Book Bus, a charity whose aim is to bring literacy and the joy of reading to children in the developing world.

Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world