This Mother’s Day, I want to share an idea with you – no Mum should lose a child to a disease that’s preventable and costs less than a Sunday paper to treat. I’m talking about malaria. The disease that claims a life every minute, and that in 2005 took my son Harry from me.

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Banikoara, Benin is home to the world’s first controlled temperature chain (CTC ) campaign. MenAfriVac, a vaccine produced by Serum Institute of India through the Bill & Melinda Gates-funded Meningitis Vaccine Project, a partnership between WHO and PATH,
is the first vaccine to be prequalified by WHO for use at ambient temperatures of up to 40°C for up to four days

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Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bedaquiline as the first new drug for tuberculosis (TB) in 40 years. This important news comes at a time when the incidence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB is growing worldwide and public health
officials are in desperate need of better drugs to contain the most dangerous strains.

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On World AIDS Day, I want to share the story of how I became an “AIDS doctor.” Every day, I am thankful for the rich opportunities that life has given me. I was the first child in my family to attend a university. I succeeded in becoming a doctor and a
medical school lecturer. And I recently started a new chapter of my career focused on finding new and better ways to prevent HIV transmission.

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Hunger at home and abroad are of the same cloth. That millions of households here are deemed “food insecure” – unable, at some point in the year, to afford the next meal – is equally absurd, obscene and shameful.

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