UN – United Nations

This World Malaria Day, we need your help more than ever. Since 2006, Nothing But Nets has created the world’s largest grassroots network dedicated to keeping families in sub-Saharan Africa safe from malaria. The campaign has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to send nets and save lives from malaria, a disease spread by a single mosquito bite. Nothing But Nets supporters have made a significant difference. Greater availability and use of malaria prevention tools […]

I’ve spent the past two days in Abu Dhabi for the Global Vaccine Summit, a gathering of leaders to highlight the importance of life-saving vaccines to the health of children.  Hosted by His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the summit brought together people from across sectors and around the world. The

Just two drops. That’s all the vaccine it takes to save a child from polio – and lifelong debilitation. Now, more than ever, I feel so lucky to have been able to vaccinate my own two boys against polio, and yesterday, I did the same for a 5-month old baby girl in the Gaschiga district of Garoua, Cameroon. I had the honor of representing the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign during the launch ceremony of Cameroon’s

The kids were lined up three rows deep in 115-degree heat when I arrived yesterday in Bandouki, an isolated village in northern Cameroon. But their mothers, and older sisters in some cases, knew that vaccination day was worth the wait. Among the crowd was a young boy named Suleiman, only a toddler, who waited patiently with his brothers and sisters. There was no way he knew that the two drops of polio vaccine I put

Every year on this day, May 3, the international community comes together for World Press Freedom Day. For those of us here in the United States, it’s a day to not only celebrate our constitutionally-protected freedom of speech, but more importantly, to stand up and demand it for all. Because even though we may take it for granted at times, freedom of expression still isn’t a right in far too many places. Just look at

On May 8, a unique one-day event is taking place: the Mom+Social conference. Mom+Social is the crowning event of the Global Mom Relay, a 60-day online conversation that has connected moms and experts around the world. Relay participants have shared personal experiences, stories about motherhood, and global causes they care about. The relay is in support of the United Nations’ Every Woman Every Child movement. To date, the relay has proven to be truly “global”