Our friends at the One Campaign put this video together explaining how a minor investment in childhood vaccines here in the United States has a profound effect around the world.
UN Dispatch was treated to an exclusive sneak-preview of some of the photos taken by the world-renowned photographer Platon that will be on display at a Malaria exhibit at the UN next week.
If you have ever visited a rural community in the developing world, one of first olfactory sensations to hit you is that burning smell. Tracing it will more often than not take you indoors, where a woman is tending to her cookstove.
KANO, Nigeria–Nigerian voters have high hopes for this month’s elections, after two delays due to logistical hurdles resulted in the first round of the postponed polls finally getting off to a rocky start yesterday. Here are the words of a Nigerian citizen who expects more from the so-called democratic government than he has experienced in the 12 years since Nigeria abandoned military rule.
UN Foundation President Tim Wirth has an item in the Huffington Post for World Health Day yesterday about the harmful effects of traditional cookstoves.
