Avoiding Childhood Deaths: The View From Africa's Highest Mountain - 10 October 2011

KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA - Seventy per cent of all childhood deaths in the world could be averted if we implemented effectively what we already know - according to a recent scientific review of childhood mortality. Two researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine based in the town of Moshi, near Mount Kilimanjaro: Mr Jim Todd and Dr Hugh Reyburn, have devoted much of their professional lives to building up the capacity in Tanzania and elsewhere to implement existing knowledge about protecting health and developing new ways of preventing and treating the illnesses fatal to children in low and middle income countries. At their lab in Tanzania they shared their views about such "capacity development" with Peter Goodwin.