So, this father’s day, I’m urging fellow fathers around the world to get as involved in their children’s health as they are when their children are ill. Fathers everywhere want the best for their kids and, as I saw in Ghana, pour their souls out when their children are gravely ill. But all too often they are missing from the vaccination clinic, one of the key steps to preventing serious illnesses like the pneumonia that took Isiah.

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When it comes time for a woman to face the real dangers of delivering a child, she often finds herself at the mercy of her circumstances. Read five stories, each offering a potential solution, from the front lines of this global crisis.

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After 25 years of remarkable achievements and sometimes harrowing setbacks, a successful conclusion to global polio eradication could finally be within reach. In late April, the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi released the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a promising new six-year strategy to win the polio “endgame.”

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The Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) team has identified some important lessons from analyses of global and national trends in mortality reduction, cause specific mortality and intervention coverage, and from experience in program implementation. Based on this learning, we have adjusted our MNCH strategy to keep the focus of our investments on the most critical conditions and issues.

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