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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February 21, 2012 / Joe Cerrell, Paloma Escudero Pérez
Despite being in the midst of one of the toughest periods in recent history, the people of Spain also remain deeply committed to those living in extreme poverty and alleviating suffering around the world.
February 03, 2012 / Deborah Lacy
New research by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation confirms that malaria control efforts have clearly been working and that most countries with a high malaria burden are seeing strong declines.
February 02, 2012 / David J. Olson
In difficult economic times like these, governments are looking for ways to cut their budgets. Foreign aid is often an easy target.
January 24, 2012 / Bill Gates
My hope for my annual letter is that it helps people connect to the choice we all have to make. Relatively small investments changed the future for hundreds of millions of small farm families. The choice now is this: Do we continue those investments so that the 1 billion people who remain poor benefit? Or do we tolerate a world in which one in seven people is undernourished, stunted, and in danger of starving to death?