Good health is necessary for women to thrive, but there has been a chronic lack of investment in understanding conditions that disproportionately affect women and girls. We push for women’s health to get the attention it deserves, and for new health innovations that meet women’s needs.
Kangaroo mother care, also known as the skin-to-skin method, is a powerful way to improve newborn care and reduce neonatal mortalities. Read on for insights.
Improving nutrition has the potential to radically accelerate progress across the SDG global goals. This week’s Nutrition for Growth summit addresses the power of nutrition to improve lives all over…
This year has witnessed significant progress against HIV/AIDS. The foundation’s Nina Russell explores the innovative R&D that catalyzed these advancements.
Muhammad Ali Pate reflects on empowering countries and global health partners to protect recent health gains, continue delivering essential services during the pandemic, and support their recovery.
The pandemic further threatens weak health systems. Building stronger and more resilient health systems means focusing on women’s care and supporting health care workers.
When it launched in 2011, the Ouagadougou Partnership set an audacious goal for 2020: Increase the number of women using modern contraceptives by at least 2.2 million in nine francophone…
Even three decades later, Dr. Lorna Tumwebaze still remembers the fear she felt after encountering her first patient living with HIV at a hospital in her native Uganda. She had…
Improving newborn health is only possible if we also improve maternal health. Better care in community clinics or outposts can help families avoid the need of going to the hospital.
For every young person around the world, adolescence is a formative period in their life that is powerfully shaped by their health, education and social surroundings in which they grow…
