A demostration of a Sure Start Project initiative to promote maternal and newborn health in Kathghara Village, Fatehpur District, U.P., India.
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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Members of a farmers cooperative gather together outside the organization's headquarters in Musaza Village, Rwanda.
May 18, 2012 by Sam Dryden
The challenges smallholder farmers in the developing world face are considerable yet not insurmountable.
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!
February 23, 2012 / Greg Shaw
A young mother of two sprang from the floor in this Tamil Nadu city where HIV and other STD infection rates are declining. She wanted to make sure that this representative of the Gates Foundation understood how important the Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative (TAI) is for her...
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February 03, 2012 / Gary Darmstadt, Dr. Gita Pillai
A couple of months ago, I blogged about a visit I made to Harijan Basti, an urban slum in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. I went to see the work of the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) and their NGO partner Pragati Seva Sansthan (PSS)...
April 20, 2011 / Rod Curtis
In years past, if an 18-month-old girl was paralyzed by polio in India in the middle of January, it would have been barely noticed. Not in 2011.
April 20, 2011 / Amie Newman
As you’ll read in some of our blog posts, India is on the cusp of a critical milestone: on April 21, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh marks one year without a single case of polio.
April 20, 2011 / Deepak Kapur
Smallpox claimed millions of lives, but is ultimately a success story for public health. The disease was eradicated in the mid-1980s after the development and distribution of a vaccine. Finally, the world was free of this virulent disease.