Community Health Worker Noria Issak speaks about contraceptive use to Fatuma Masan during a home visit in the Korogocho slum in Kenya.
May 14, 2012 by Gary Darmstadt
My hope is that this conversation that Melinda has started will get us closer to the moment where it is not controversial that all women and men around the world have equitable access to contraceptives.
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Nikuze Aziza carries a sack of food aid to her family's house from a warehouse in Rwanda.
May 03, 2012 by Laurie Goering
By 2050, the planet will need at least 70 percent more food than it does today, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization predicts.
Math teacher Doris Zuniz
May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton
I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!
April 26, 2012 / Roger Thurow
Good work, now keep going. That is the message to the U.S. government—both the administration and Congress—from the 2012 Progress Report on American Leadership in Global Agricultural Development released today.
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April 25, 2012 / Alexandra Farnum
Today is World Malaria Day. Every day, while we go about our daily life, mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite are making people sick in countries around the world where malaria still exists.
April 16, 2012 / Michele Ernsting
Melinda Gates, you’re right! Women should have access to the contraceptive or family planning method of their choice. And yes, it should be the most normal thing in the world.
April 10, 2012 / Ellen Piwoz, Shelly Sundberg
Undernutrition is an under-appreciated cause of about one-third of all deaths in children around the world before their fifth birthday.
March 28, 2012 / Bill Gates
Malaria deaths are way down from their peak in Zambia. Bed nets have been very effective. But we’re still looking for answers to some questions about them.