IUD's, The Pill & Sterilisation: Your Experiences Of Contraception

Accessing family planning is not easy for many women, who face cultural or religious opposition, supply shortages and doctors who won’t listen More women than ever ar...

These Kids Are Saving Others From A Life Of Child Slavery

In Assam, India, 12-year-old Sahidul Ali returned from school with a big grin on his face and headed straight to the office of Universal Team for Social Action and Help(UTS...

Milk Banks In Rajasthan Have Helped 1500 Infants From Death & Disease

Human milk is the only life-saving, nutritious food that can keep an infant alive and healthy. Without that, they’re prone to diseases and malnutrition. Even formula ...

8 Apps Revolutionizing Maternal Health Care In Developing Nations

In a global community that often treats health care as a luxury rather than a necessity, the world’s mothers are arguably some of those most impacted by inequality in...

Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Mic...

6 Reasons Why Breastfeeding Is Essential For Your Child's Health & Survival

There is nothing in the world that haunts a mother more than her child's health.And if all the new mothers are looking for something that can actually help infants fight vi...

The Next Great Elimination Story: Malaria

Editor’s note: In commemoration of World Malaria Day, April 25, PATH will be sharing stories over the next five weeks from the front lines of the malaria elimination ...

Global Health Funding Becoming Scarce: Study

People wasting away from AIDS or succumbing to malaria may become an increasingly common sight within the next 25 years, as funding for universal health care shrivels up. Read More

Three Births

Dawlen Tirkey, a nurse in one of India’s poorest and least developed states, had decided that she and her husband could afford to have just one child.
Their son,...