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Looking for the Mothers: Connecting Bereaved Parents with Grief Counselors in Zambia

October 30, 2019 / Jennifer Beard

A team based in Lusaka and Boston wants to better understand the causes of child mortality in Zambia. As part of their work, they are bridging the gap between scientific research and mental health by offering grief counseling to bereaved parents.

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Walking a Marathon to Give Birth

January 12, 2016 / Jerker Liljestrand, Naveen Rao

Every year, around 300,000 women and 2.8 newborns die during pregnancy and childbirth – more than half in sub-Saharan Africa – and many of these deaths occur because women live miles away from the care they need during childbirth and lack the transportation they need to get there.

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Ideas Wanted: New Ways to Reduce Childhood Pneumonia Deaths

May 04, 2015 / Rasa Izadnegahdar

If we hope to see fewer children dying of pneumonia in the next 15 years, the same way we have in the previous 15, we will need to pay more attention to this overlap and the role of undernutrition in pneumonia.

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A Continued Commitment to U.S. Leadership on HIV

April 07, 2014 / Michael Deich

As the world transitions from the successful implementation of an emergency response to AIDS to the equally important job of building sustained access to HIV prevention and treatment, continued leadership from PEPFAR and the Global Fund will be critical.

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Perspectives: Reaching and Treating People with TB and HIV

March 23, 2014 / Mandy Slutsker

ACTION talks with African experts about what we need to do to reach, treat, and cure everyone with TB and HIV.

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  • "I am convinced that through the telling of stories, we discover what connects us." —Melinda Gates

  • "Our young people are the future. We must provide for them. We must give them the positive leadership they are asking for." —Grace Murray Hopper

  • "The number of people dying from AIDS has gone down by more than 20% in the last five years, to fewer than 2 million annually. Given the lives that at stake, I'm impatient enough that I'm willing to be viewed as a troublemaker by those happy with the status quo." —Bill Gates

  • "I have an optimistic view of human nature. For the most part, I believe people are good, that we want to help our neighbors. I believe people want to be good citizens. When they see a problem, they want to fix it." —William H. Gates, Sr.

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

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