While South African government officials crow about their success in meeting the Millennium Development Goal of universal access to primary…
Despite massive gains in improving child well-being and reducing deaths over the past 20 years, there are millions still left…
When the outbreak of Ebola in West African spiraled out of control in the middle of 2014, health-care advocates pointed…
Noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes, are increasingly affecting young people in low- and middle-income countries. Worse still,…
Once seen as a sure-fire way to build dependence on charitable assistance, cash transfers that give people money with or…
African governments and donor countries are not living up to their commitments to invest in health, agriculture and education, finds a…
The outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa is now slowing down and it might not completely go away. An…
Only two-thirds of the money the UN says was needed to respond to global humanitarian crises in 2013 was raised.…
An estimated 120 million girls are sexually abused by their twentieth birthday. That means roughly one out of every ten…
The international organizations that are the first to act when disaster strikes were called out last week by the UK…