Midwife training in northern Nigeria. Some 73 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are responsible for 96% of global…
Six percent of children were characterized as wasted (critically below healthy weight for the appropriate age group) in September 2012. Last month, that number reached zero after a steady decline. More children are considered on target now than a year ago by more than 10 percentage points.
A mother plays with her young son in Mwea, Kenya.Gates Foundation Innovators gathered in Washington DC to show off their…
The Kenyan government decided to waive the fees in the maternity wards of public hospitals. Fees ranging from $12 to…
BBC It’s a safe bet. Sending cardboard boxes to poor countries will be the next big global child health initiative. The…
Three years ago, David Banks went to a remote community in Tanzania to enlist the residents in ongoing efforts aimed at protecting the endangered chimpanzee population in the region.
David Banks. “Frankly, we got nowhere with that,” said Banks, director of the Africa program for the Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s leading environmental organizations (America’s largest such group) focused for most of its 60 years on buying parcels of land to preserve them from humanity’s frequently harmful activities.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: Global health is sexy. At least in Seattle. The…
The online international news organization GlobalPost has been taking an in-depth look at the Obama Administration’s Global Health Initiative (GHI)…
World Health OrganizationWHO The World Health Assembly opens today in Geneva for week-long confab on what to do about global…
Flickr, by Dierk Schaefer Seattle recently hosted a big international meeting in which many of the world’s leaders in the…