Children living in areas with poor sanitation and hygiene account for 60% of people around the world infected with intestinal worms. Marcos Brindicci...

A new year, a new challenge and a new resolution As I turn the calendar page to January 2017, I am keen to look ahead and examine our health challe...

By Jody Sadornas, The Open Hands Initiative In our first blog post in this ...

Globally, tens of thousands of women suffer violence every day. This violence takes place in rich countries and in poor ones, in the home, at work, on...

By Jill Raufman, M.S., M.P.H., Ten years ago I was working with some friends on a joint project at the Central Nairobi YMCA. In a park on the outskir...

Our biggest accomplishment has been to bring this issue to people in their hometowns. Before (RED), the scale of the pandemic was known mostly in public health circles. (RED) told the story to the broad population and they have responded! (RED) is now a global brand, which is the result of a lot of hard work and tremendous partnerships.

A new publication by the WHO has produced 49 recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. Death in pregnancy remains a scour...

The health and well-being of women is the health and well-being of the world. And yet: Every day, 1,600 women and more than 10,000 newborns die from ...

Earlier this summer, the HIV/AIDS effort achieved a notable accomplishment that the rest of the public health community may have overlooked, missing a...

Today more than ever we need leaders who are visionary, have integrity and strive for equity. These leaders need to be diplomatic and efficient to make things happen, but nasty enough to fight the battles that need to be fought in order to transform this world and to make it a world worth living in.

Stop and take a breath. No matter where you live in the world, the chances are great that the air filling your lungs is polluted. Worldwide, ...

The blog is co-authored by Mandeep Dhaliwal, Director at UNDP's HIV, Health and Development Group, Bureau of Policy and ...

In the swirl of world events that range from economic uncertainty to continuing unease about terrorism, President Obama took an important step today to strengthen our ability to protect people in the United States and around the world from disease outbreaks.

With cases rising in Florida, Singapore, Vietnam and Trinidad and Tobago, the Zika virus pandemic is raising public concern in regions across the glo...

What makes a healthy city, and can people, from political leaders and parents, help make their homes healthier? At the 9th Global conference on he...

When we think of the main sources of stress in our lives, we usually think that these are from work and home. Bossy business partners and spouses, cha...