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 10, 2012 / Jennifer James
Despite these grim reminders that over 350,000 women die every year during childbirth there are successes and there is movement toward measurable progress to reduce the rate of maternal deaths globally.
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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 25, 2012 / Doulaye Kone
We all need new and better toilets and we need them now. That’s why today, the foundation put forth a new call for innovative ideas to reinvent the toilet.
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 08, 2012 / Gary Darmstadt, Wendy Prosser
Family planning can help women and their babies avoid these risks. And all women should have equal knowledge of and access to contraceptives in order to do that.