On Friday Carmen talked with Ambassador Mark Lagon about The Global Fight to end AIDS, TB and Malaria – focusing on tuberculosis. Carmen met Mark as an outgrowth of spending time with her today’s guest, Jenny Dyer.
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Haitians have taken to the streets repeatedly in the past 16 months, to protest corruption, inequality and economic hardship. Since the latest demonstrations began on 15 September, sweeping the streets of the capital, Port-au-prince…
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Nashville Soccer Club’s midfielder, Lebo Moloto, hails from Polokwane, South Africa. Polokwane is a rural village about four hours north of Johannesburg. Moloto was scouted as a child, and he moved to Johannesburg to play soccer at the at the age of eleven.
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Last night, we were able to celebrate the launch of The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World in our hometown bookstore, Parnassus, in Nashville, TN.
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WASHINGTON - The executive director of the United Nations' World Food Program has wrapped up a visit to Sudan after helicoptering into the volatile South Kordofan region to assess humanitarian needs.
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October 2019: “More children and young people are surviving, but far too few are thriving,” notes the 2019 State of the World’s Children (SOWC) report.
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On Monday a trio of American economists—Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer—won the Nobel Prize in economics for “their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
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Yesterday, it was beyond exciting to finally FINALLY see The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World out in print! There is something so amazing to see an abstract idea come together in tactile form that is almost a miracle.
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This summer, United Nations agencies published three reports that offer a sobering assessment of the current state of international security and development, focusing on multidimensional poverty, hunger, and forcible displacement.
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With his family’s goats trotting ahead, 9-year-old Nathan Choobwe walks briskly through a field of dead maize stalks in Moyo, Zambia. Although it’s only been a month since harvest time began in April, the stunted corn has been dried up for much longer, says Eunice Siamooya, Nathan’s mother.
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#WorldFoodDay
Across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly, UNICEF revealed on Tuesday, in its most comprehensive report on children, food and nutrition in 20 years.
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Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise in some parts of the world, and some 821 million people are considered to be “chronically undernourished”. What steps are being taken to ensure that everyone, worldwide, receives sufficient food?
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At the very outset of the New Testament, Jesus’ public teaching begins in earnest with the Sermon on the Mount, the lovely “Blessed are the poor in spirit…” (Matthew 5:3). But some twenty chapters later, after countless parables and maxims, healings and disputes, Jesus gathers his disciples for one more session, one last lesson before he turns toward the cross.
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Major donors step forward with significantly increased pledges for Sixth Replenishment
Lyon, France – Today the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) raised $14.02 billion, the largest amount of money ever raised for an international health organization.
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In the urgent struggle to stop the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors are rolling out powerful vaccines and lifesaving antiviral drugs, but the year-old outbreak, mired in violence among warring militias, is now caught between expert groups feuding over the best strategy to stamp out the disease.
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In May, the House of Representatives approved the FY2020 SFOPs Appropriations bill. We were thrilled then to see the leadership of the House support a modest increase to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
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Thanks to the release of David Barstow’s fictional release, HIV and AIDS in 2030: A Choice Between Two Futures (2019), many in the community were stimulated to discuss the book’s probing question: where we will be in 2030 in regards to HIV and AIDS? Will we have contained the epidemic, or will it have become a pandemic beyond control?
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A genetically modified fungus weaponized with spider venom; using mobile phone data to track infectious disease spread; a drug that turns human beings into living “mosquito zappers.”
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Churches and pastors are often eager to respond to the problems of global poverty and injustice. Yet before they take steps to address these problems, pastors — like anyone else — want to know how they can make a difference.
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#NationalMalnutritionAwarenessWeek -
How a passionate mother in Sudan is learning to give her baby girl the best start in life.
For Sarah Mohammed, the journey to motherhood was not an easy one. The 34-year old from El Obeid, Sudan, spent six years desperately visiting doctors and taking test after test to unearth any potential cause delaying her pregnancy.
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