For an aspiring global power, India suffers from shocking levels of malnutrition

The bad news is that India continues to lead most countries in several malnutrition and mortality indicators. The latest UN report places India’s maternal mortality a...

When Mothers Have Healthy Pregnancies, The Positive Benefits Last A Lifetime

The United States has shown courageous leadership over the last decade on global health. Earlier this year, Congress once again voted to protect the budget for those critic...

UN agency warns of Somalia hunger deaths

UNICEF says 200,000 children under the age of five could die by the end of the year unless emergency funds are received. About 200,000 children under the age of five could ...

Ewan McGregor Supports Voices Of Children In Emergencies

The European Union and UNICEF have launched a campaign to highlight the situation of millions of children around the world affected by disasters, catastrophes and conflicts...

Climate change affects health, shelter

Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Global warming that has occur...

Key to sustainable nutrition in Africa is prevention not treatment

Stunting among children increased to 45 per cent in 2011

Africa must take charge of research priorities to beat malnutrition and hunger

Interventions to pre...

WHO proposes ready-to-use food. Health experts don’t agree

THE World Health Organization (WHO) formulated new guidelines on November 27 to treat children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). These guidelines are to be used as an i...

Bill Gates Talks To Author Of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo

Bill Gates: How did you pick the particular slum and the people that you profiled in the book?

Katherine Boo: Although I’d been spending time in slums all ove...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...