Wash Your Hands—A Simple Action with Exponential Benefits
Today, on Global Handwashing Day, Change.org has launched its 3rd annual Blog Action Day appropriately themed this year around water. There is much to be said about the global water shortage and its...
Mobile Phones: Changing Girls' Lives One Call at a Time
In a world where 1 in 3 women experience a form of violence in their lifetimes, phones can be a lifeline for a woman who is threatened or needs help.
MDG 8,Target F: Last but Not Least, Technologies and Global Partnerships for Development
Earlier this week, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced its new pledges totaling $11.7 billion from many donor governments as well as other private sources like Chevron, the United Methodist Church, and the Gates Foundation.
Following the Leaders: Global Fund Helped Make Country Ownership a Reality
Yesterday, donor countries and corporations pledged a record-setting $11.7 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The largest pledge came from the United States government—$4 billion over the next three years, which is an increase of nearly 40% over past commitments and the largest increase of any donor country.
For Manuela
Sexual violence is a reality of the developed and the developing world. Globally, one in three women experience sexual violence in their lifetimes.
The Death Clock Is Counting Them: But Where Are These Women?
On Monday, Amnesty International launched the “death clock” in Times Square in New York City. Every 90 seconds, it ticks off another woman’s life lost from pregnancy-related causes.
Going Digital: Taking the Maternal Health Community Online
The “Maternal health: digital” panel closed the conference with exciting, new, and innovative ways for using technology for global health and maternal health issues.
NDM-1: A Potential Superbug Epidemic—What Does it Mean for Health Workers?
New Delhi recently joined the ranks of other metropolitan cities like Washington D.C., Berlin, Singapore, Beijing, and Moscow with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as a ‘superbug,’ taking its namesake.
Demanding Accountability: Key for Continuing Gains in Maternal Health
I’m really pleased to hear discussion here in Delhi at the Global Maternal Health Conference about our collective accountability. For the past several decades, we have lamented the fact that half a million women’s lives were lost every year to pregnancy-related causes.
