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!
May 02, 2012 / Kylie Hodges
In May 2009, at 26 weeks and 6 days into my pregnancy, I went to the hospital at 3 in the morning, fairly certain I was being a neurotic first time mother.
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May 02, 2012 / Gary Darmstadt, Amie Newman, Wendy Prosser
More than a million babies each year are born too early (preterm)–and without access to the kind of health care that could save their lives.
April 13, 2012 / Giang Huong Nguyen, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Nathan Vyklicky
When our Hanoi team at Alive & Thrive, an infant nutrition project, produced two TV spots to promote exclusive breastfeeding for Vietnamese babies, the head of a U.S. non-profit called MOMS Orange Country took notice.
March 21, 2012 / Sita Shankar Wunnava, Wendy Prosser, Gary Darmstadt
A man named Om Prakash in India received a letter from his son one day. The interesting thing about that letter, though, is that his son had not been born yet.
February 08, 2012 / Gary Darmstadt, Saul Morris, Wendy Prosser
According to two new studies released in The Lancet today, there’s one more way to save the lives of newborns in our poorest countries.