When my daughter was born, more than a million HIV positive mothers worldwide had to temper their dreams and aspirations for their newborns, knowing that they could pass HIV onto their children. In fact, 80 percent of HIV+ children die before the age of five.
Rajesh Anandan | Posted 05.11.2012
Each day, an estimated 8,000 babies die within the first 28 days of life. Most of these babies are born in developing countries, where births occur at home, because the health facility is too far, care is not free, or home birth is the social norm.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.09.2012
Dayle Haddon, a top model in the 70s and 80s, was 38 when her husband died unexpectedly. Left without an economic base or source of income, she tried to go back to the world of fashion and beauty, and was succinctly told that she was "over the hill."
Posted 05.08.2012
For most of us, Drinking Water Week means swapping soda for H20 and making sure we fill up on our daily 64-ounce requirement. But while we make a c...
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012
Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.
Posted 04.24.2012
At 18, actress and singer Selena Gomez became UNICEF's youngest ambassador. At 19, her charitable ways are far from slowing down. The Ryan Seacrest...
Dr. Rajiv Shah | Posted 04.22.2012
As a father of three, I see unlimited potential when I look at my children. And I am reminded that my own parents came to the United States from India so that my sister and I could have a strong education and greater opportunity in life.
Jane Wales | Posted 04.16.2012
We often refer to the debt we owe to Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller for translating their charitable impulse into organized philanthropy, pro...
Geeta Rao Gupta | Posted 04.05.2012
All of these children are in need of rescue -- all are children whose potential contributions to their society are being lost. All are a challenge to our consciences and to our capacity to do what we all instinctively want to do when we see a child in danger -- to save that child.
Jan Eliasson | Posted 05.29.2012
Unfortunately, 783 million people -- 11 percent of the global population -- still have no access to clean water. For context, that is more than two and a half times the population of the United States.
HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 03.22.2012
In support of this week's World Water Week, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz has teamed up with UNICEF's Tap Campaign to help enco...
Posted 03.22.2012
According to Water.org, every 20 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease. But children aren't the only ones affected by the worldwide wat...
Steven M. Hilton | Posted 05.22.2012
We reached the Millennium Development Goals water target because we made clean water a global priority and worked in partnership to achieve it. We need the same single-minded purpose and renewed partnership now.
Posted 03.21.2012
The next time you're automatically handed that glass of water in your favorite restaurant, UNICEF urges you to realize how fortunate you are -- and th...
C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.21.2012
World Water Day on March 22 is a day on which all global citizens should focus their attention on the importance of fresh water to sustainable development.
Tom Murphy | Posted 05.20.2012
The timing of the Kony 2012 campaign is quite apt in light of the recent release of Dr Samantha Nutt's memoir-cum-aid commentary Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid.
Posted 03.19.2012
The end of her seven-year marriage was the thing making headlines until Heidi Klum gave fans a more benevolent story to talk about Thursday. The su...
David Mepham | Posted 05.15.2012
Despite a plethora of international initiatives on corporate social responsibility, none has focused exclusively on the impact of business on children's rights.
Richard Attias | Posted 05.14.2012
As climate change affects weather patterns across the globe, and political tensions flare up, food security will become one of the most pressing issues for the world's leaders to deal with.
Ned Breslin | Posted 05.14.2012
Access means that there is a tap nearby that people could use. Functionality means that water actually flows from that tap. Far too often the tap does not produce water, so it is therefore not effective at what the Millennium Development Goal is really trying to do -- eradicate water poverty.
The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 03.09.2012
The “Kony 2012” video campaign against Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, was met with fiery reactions across the board a...
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 03.21.2012
UNITED NATIONS -- The world's nations achieved a U.N. goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water five year...
AP | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 04.29.2012
MEXICO CITY — Millions of children are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living close to them, the United Nati...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.28.2012
The first time I heard Rachel Lloyd speak was in 2005, the year of the 70th Annual Academy Awards. "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" had won for the b...
Posted 02.15.2012
It's a dire situation for children worldwide. As food prices rise, nearly half a billion kids face a devastating health toll due to malnutrition, a...
Anu Gupta | Posted 05.30.2012