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Health

A demostration of a Sure Start Project initiative to promote maternal and newborn health in Kathghara Village, Fatehpur District, U.P., India.
What Does it Take to Save a Life? How About a Game?

May 18, 2012 by Sita Shankar Wunnava

The woman in the green sari leans over the game of Snakes and Ladders and throws the dice. The women around her groan as she reads the words on the square where she lands.

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Poverty

Members of a farmers cooperative gather together outside the organization's headquarters in Musaza Village, Rwanda.
President Obama and Bill Gates on Fighting Hunger and Poverty

May 18, 2012 by Sam Dryden

The challenges smallholder farmers in the developing world face are considerable yet not insurmountable.

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Education

Math teacher Doris Zuniz
My Favorite Teacher? Don't Make Me Choose

May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton

I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!

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Accelerating the Fight Against TB

March 23, 2012 / Joanne Carter

This year marks a decade since the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The Fund’s impact on the TB fight has been extraordinary.

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Category Health
Topics Tuberculosis
Country Africa, South Africa

U.S. Congress Faces Funding Decision on HIV, Malaria

March 01, 2012 / Kaitlin Christenson

The U.S. Congress is now considering the Obama administration’s budget for global health in the coming weeks and months.

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Category Health
Topics Research & Development, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis
Country Kenya

Reflections on HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

January 27, 2012 / Anne Marson

Dr. Christoph Benn reflects on working two decades ago as a doctor at Tanzania’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, a facility that had 100 beds to serve 100,000 people. In the wake of incredible progress made there—and across the globe—in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

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Category Poverty
Topics HIV/AIDS
Country Tanzania

Obama Increases Commitment to HIV Treatment and Prevention Programs in Low-Income Countries

December 01, 2011 / Julie Bernstein

This morning, ONE and (RED) marked World AIDS Day as “the beginning of the end of AIDS” at a star-studded event at George Washington University

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Category Health
Topics HIV/AIDS
Country Tanzania, United States

Celebrities Pledge to Global Fund's "Million Lives" Campaign: How About You?

September 21, 2011 / Michel Kazatchkine

It is an incredibly rewarding feeling to see the work to which you’ve dedicated your life being championed by others.

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Category Health
Topics HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis

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"Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates
"The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter
"When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates
The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.
In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.