TRENTON, N.J. - Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson today announced the launch of Every Mother, Every Child, a comprehensive, five-year, private-sector effort to improve the health of women and children in developing countries. The initiative supports the United Nations' April 2010 call for a renewed effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing mortality ...

Johnson & Johnson's program is meant to improve life and increase life expectancy for women and children in more than 50 countries. ...

Johnson & Johnson's program is meant to improve life and increase life expectancy for women and children in more than 50 countries. ...

... good healthcare is scarce, and the life expectancy is only about 41 years (more than 12 percent of the population is estimated to be infected with HIV). ...

Johnson & Johnson's program is meant to improve life and increase life expectancy for women and children in more than 50 countries. ...

Zambia has the world's third highest death rate and second shortest life expectancy of 38, according to the CIA World Factbook. The county is estimated to ...

In individuals infected with CMV, a virus which prematurely ages the immune system and significantly reduces life expectancy, TA-65 caused an apparent "age ...

... good healthcare is scarce, and the life expectancy is only about 41 years (more than 12 percent of the population is estimated to be infected with HIV). ...

... of maternal and child mortality, improved life expectancy, combating HIV/Aids, and introducing and enforcing legislation against tobacco and alcohol. ...

“The basic dilemma is that although the life expectancy for someone with HIV can be over 20 years, those who become newly infected are younger people,” says Hoven. “The life expectancy of a person with HIV is more like 40 to 50 years of ...

A study by the National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project in New York and the ATHENA National Observational Cohort Study in February 2010 found that the average life expectancy of people living with HIV has been extended from seven years ...

Now, typically when disease burden decreases, and life expectancy increases, there is a trend towards lower overall birth rates, which means that removing the disease load from a population may result in a short term population boom, ...

It is estimated that 33.4 million people are living with HIV worlsudwide,[1] 2.3 million of which are in Europe.[2] Research shows that antiretrovirals have helped to extend life expectancy for people living with HIV. ...

Johnson & Johnson's program is meant to improve life and increase life expectancy for women and children in more than 50 countries. The company said it aims to help up to 120 million women and children each year for the next five years. ... Johnson & Johnson will expand its peer education programs for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV; reducing birth asphyxia, a life-threatening condition caused by a lack of oxygen at birth; and upgrading health facilities to ...