Charlize Theron Speaks At United Nations Discussion On AIDS

Speaking at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the leaders of Kenya and Malawi co-hosted this week with the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) a high-level panel...

Charlize Theron Speaks At United Nations Discussion On AIDS

Speaking at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the leaders of Kenya and Malawi co-hosted this week with the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) a high-level panel...

Health And The UN

September 8 marked 15 years to the day since the United Nations adopted the millennium development goals (MDGs). Soon the world will adopt a new regime in global milestones...

Harnessing The Data Revolution For Sustainable Development

On September 27, 2015, the member states of the United Nations agreed to a set of Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) that define a common agenda to achieve inclus...

Reproductive Freedom For The World's Poorest Women

At the heart of maternal health and child survival is a healthy woman. Protecting every woman’s right to access family planning and reproductive-health services is cr...

Everything Is Connected

Once, when I was Prime Minister of Norway, I had an intense exchange with an opposition leader during "question time" in Parliament. In response, I exclaimed: "Yes, all is ...

Why It's Crucial To Engage Men In Maternal Health

Later this month, the world’s 193 nations will formally endorse an ambitious set of sustainable development goals (SDG) aimed primarily at ending global poverty, symb...

India Fixes Health Goals For Next 15 Years

India has set itself a challenging target to reduce maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births respec...

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...