Global Connections

Impact through Partnerships

May 17, 2013 BY Kathy Calvin

In a resource-constrained world, partnerships and innovation are essential to scaling up creative solutions in the global fight against deadly diseases. In the past decade, we have seen the value that strong global health partnerships can create.
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POSTED IN: Campaigns & Initiatives

What Do the World’s Mothers Want?

May 12, 2013 BY Chrysula Winegar

The Global Mom Relay has brought together the famous and the unknown. It’s brought together men and women and girls. It’s brought together experts and advocates.
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POSTED IN: #SGSGlobal, Campaigns & Initiatives, Get Involved, Global Issues, On the Ground, Photo of the Day

A new shot at life for Suleiman – and millions of other children worldwide

May 1, 2013 BY Peter Yeo

The kids were lined up three rows deep in 115-degree heat when I arrived yesterday in Bandouki, an isolated village in northern Cameroon. But their mothers, and older sisters in some cases, knew that vaccination day was worth the wait...
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POSTED IN: Campaigns & Initiatives, Global Issues, On the Ground

Just Two Drops

April 30, 2013 BY Peter Yeo

Just two drops. That's all the vaccine it takes to save a child from polio – and lifelong debilitation...
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POSTED IN: Campaigns & Initiatives

Forecast: Storms with a Chance of Hope

April 29, 2013 BY Patrick Madden

It's almost cliché to say extreme weather is becoming the norm, but the sad fact is the dangerous extremes are due in part to climate change. The storyline hasn’t changed, but it keeps getting worse: pollution has dramatically affected the earth’s atmosphere, the polar ice caps are melting, ocean levels are rising, ocean temperatures are shifting, and weather patterns have become more dramatic.
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POSTED IN: Campaigns & Initiatives, Global Issues, United Nations