This is a joint post with Rachel Silverman.

Since the launch of the Obama administration's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI) in May 2009, we have followed its ups and downs with great enthusiasm (see for example: here, here, and here), trying to better...

On March 23rd, Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet, "tweeted" a series of 140 character messages in rapid fire about the World Health Organization (WHO) that caught my eye:

·         Just had a profoundly disturbing call from a Director of a WHO programme in...

Yesterday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon nominated former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to head the new UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women -- UN Women for short. Congratulations to Dr. Bachelet!

While the selection process was criticized for lacking openness and transparency, I...

The biggest news from the 2010 AIDS Conference was no doubt the encouraging results from the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa's (CAPRISA) trial of a female microbicide gel to block the transmission of HIV. As my colleague Mead Over describes, this possible prevention...

Not as large or energizing as previous AIDS conferences, the Vienna 2010 jamboree officially kicked off on Sunday night at the Messe Wien Center. Soothing classical music wafted through the auditorium, creating a somewhat surreal setting for a conference that will be characterized by frustration and bitterness about the world's...

The much-anticipated Women Deliver 2010 conference opened with a rousing call for global action for women's health. A star-studded line-up of health and development leaders committed themselves and urged others to do more to reduce child and maternal deaths. The rhetoric and passion sounds a lot like the calls...

This is a joint post with Katherine Douglas

The Canadian press reports :

(Ottawa is) telling other G8 countries that Canada is willing to put about $1 billion toward maternal and child health -- as long as other countries ante up too... The Canadian cash...

This is a joint post with Geeta Rao Gupta.

In all of last week's hoopla in NYC with the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the Clinton Global Initiative in full swing, news about an improved, composite U.N. entity for women (still to be formally named) went...

President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton deserve high marks for their efforts to promote enhanced rights and opportunities for women in developing countries. Clinton's persistent focus on raising women's issues in every African country she visited last week add oomph to early and commendable policy steps by the...

The current economic crisis is forcing HIV/AIDS donors to do more with less. Taking on gender inequality in more than a token way to improve efficiency and effectiveness is a no brainer. The current U.S. administration has made women and girls a high priority so PEPFAR has all the political...