Why Are Women Worldwide Not Using Contraceptives—Even Though They Don’t Want A Pregnancy?

Significant numbers of women worldwide don't use birth control due to fears of side effects, negative beliefs about contraception, and because they don't think they need it...

Children And Families Should Never Be In Immigration Detention – UN Experts

Governments should stop placing children and families in immigration detention, a group of UN human rights experts* has said in a call to mark International Migrants’...

Madhuri Dixit Adds Star Power To AIF’s Women-Child Health Care Symposium

The American India Foundation partnered with Stanford Medicine to host a symposium on maternal and child health care in India Oct. 14, an event which saw a string of high-p...

Film Festival Directors Discuss State of Cinema

Would you say that the state of international film is healthy and on the rise?
Barbera: The U.S. is still the leading film industry and biggest market, but it’s ...

'Swarm Electrification' in Bangladesh Lets Neighbours Swap Solar Electricity

Ten households in Shakimali Matborkandi, a village in the Shariatpur district of Bangladesh, have seen a dramatic change over the past year in the way they light their home...

Vivek Oberoi's web series in Marathi is all about how to make the impossible possible.

Vivek Oberoi’s nine-episode web series in Marathi is all about how to make the impossible possible

Actor-producer Vivek Oberoi is developing a nine-epis...

'You Can't Stand by and Watch People Die': The Woman Developing an HIV Vaccine

In the 1990s, Dr. Glenda Gray was an activist and medical student, fighting to end segregation in the hospitals of apartheid South Africa and mobilize communities around he...

We have a roadmap on antenatal care - now we need to deliver

A new publication by the WHO has produced 49 recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. Death in pregnancy remains a scourge that we have the po...

Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the US and the EU) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars probe into space. But it remains part ...