UN – United Nations

April 25 marks World Malaria Day – a day to recognize the important progress we have made as a global community in combating this deadly disease, while also raising awareness and support to continue our work. Here are five reasons you should care about (and join!) the effort to fight malaria. 1. Roughly half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 3.4 billion people are […]

By Orin Levine, Director of Vaccine Delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists blog. Like many parents, my wife and I eagerly documented the first few years of our daughters’ lives, excited to chronicle every milestone. We can dig out video footage of their first steps, and unroll the old growth charts where we measured their heights each year.

Reproductive health impacts us all, yet it is often an issue that is misunderstood and underreported. Why We Care is a platform to bring together a diverse array of U.S. and global leaders to write personal essays about their commitment to international reproductive health and family planning. Vanessa Kerry is one of the latest Why We Care essayists. She is a physician, the Chief Executive Officer of Seed Global Health, and the daughter of Secretary

By Janet Fleischman and Alisha Kramer, CSIS Global Health Policy Center Ethiopia has attracted global attention for its leadership in advancing family planning. In a new video, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center brings the voices of Ethiopian women and girls as well as champions of family planning into the U.S. policy discussion. Through the voices of rural women, health extension workers, and an Orthodox priest, along with an official of the Ministry of Health

With just over 600 days left until the target date to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, eight goals that make up the world’s “to-do” list to reduce poverty, it’s an important moment to reflect on where we stand on MDG 5, which calls for reducing maternal mortality by three-fourths. Today, the United Nations released new numbers that show steady progress is being made, but there’s still work to be done. Here’s what you need to

I have a 2-year-old daughter named Opal. Much like me, she never sits down — she was even “standing” in the womb. She was a rare type of breech called footling breech. Other than the extra pain of having a C-section, I didn’t think much about the delivery. While lying in the hospital, I didn’t wonder if the power was going to stay on or if the doctors could properly see what they were doing;

On Wednesday, I joined a group of mothers for a powerful conversation on how we can improve the health and well-being of women and children, and the topic on everyone’s mind was the horrifying kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. As a mother and an advocate for girls, I’m appalled and angry at this assault on girls because they were excising their fundamental right to education. The UN Foundation joins the call of

By Andrea Sok Tonia Sanders, a Champion for the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign, recently sat down with Joan Awunyo-Akaba, civil society representative on the GAVI Alliance Board, which works to increase access to immunization in low-income countries. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Future Generations International, a Ghanaian based NGO that promotes health and development. Sanders, a blogger (thechattymomma.com), mother of two, and passionate advocate for global vaccines, posed questions about the