The UN Food and Agriculture Organization released its annual review of global hunger today. The "State of Food Insecurity in the World" report offers some good news and bad news about, well, the state of food security in the world.
Maternal health gets a lot of attention. It’s been marked as a priority by donors ranging from the UK Government to the Gates Foundation, and it’s been accepted as one of the areas of global health we actually know how to address.
UN Foundation Founder (and UN-designated "anti-poverty superhero") Ted Turner cuts a PSA for the Millennium Development Goals.
One of the most anticipated moments during the UN summit coming up later this month is a meeting on on maternal and child health, taking place on Wednesday the 22. It probably won’t draw the same amount of media attention as predicable rants by various global despots, but it holds more potential to change the lives of millions of the most vulnerable people around the world than any UN meeting in a long time.
The biggest screen in Times Square is playing PSA's on the Millennium Development goals between now and the UN Summit in two weeks. Our friends at the UN Foundation pass along this announcement.
In a March 2008 article in the American Prospect, ]the journalist Spencer Ackerman wrote the first serious attempt to understand the organizing principals of then-candidate Obama’s foreign policy vision. Ackerman discovered that should Obama assume the presidency, "the Obama doctrine” as he put it, would be premised on “an agenda of ’dignity promotion’ to fix the conditions of misery that breed anti-Americanism and prevent liberty, justice, and prosperity from taking root.”
Secretary Clinton gave a big speech at Johns Hopkins University on the Obama administration's Global Health Initiative yesterday. The GHI, as it is known, is a six year, $63 billion plan to improve public health in the developing world. The program builds on some George W. Bush administration successes, like PEPFAR and the President's Malaria Initiative, to support partner country efforts at building capacity in their public health sectors.
Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan tag teamed for an op-ed about the value of vaccination campaigns in the fight against child mortality, which is part of MDG4. Childhood vaccines have a great track record when properly implemented. In fact, they call vaccination campaigns against Measles and Polio among the "world's most successful childhood health interventions." The problem is, these gains are starting to slip. The two Elders explain what needs to be done: