“We can stop pandemics. We can make the world a safe place.”
Ian Goldin
A focus on diseases and cures can mask the underlying issue: lack of access to quality healthcare.
Inadequate access results in millions of preventable deaths every year. Developing countries are served by one-tenth as many doctors and nurses per capita as high-income areas. The developed world suffers too.
We advance innovations that enable access to and ensure use of reliable, affordable and appropriate healthcare that leads to improved health outcomes in disadvantaged populations.
May 20 - 26, 2013
Debate
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Success In mHealth: Shifting Focus From The “m” To The “Health”
In the not-too-distant future, one imagines the most effective mHealth solutions being those that are so seamlessly integrated into global maternal and child health programs that they cease to be thought of as “mHealth”, but simply as the “way programs are implemented”. One might say the success of mHealth lies in its disappearance – shifting the question from whether to go ‘mobile’ to which mobile approach to take.
Debate
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mPowering Women and Girls
Last year, USAID launched a new policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment to address the challenges of gender inequality in political participation, economic markets, education and health. The policy underscores a critical premise: that equal participation of women and girls in society leads to more effective and sustainable health and development outcomes.
Debate
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For Expectant and New Mothers, Mobile Fosters Confidence and a Healthier Future
Husbands and mothers-in-law are influential and oftentimes the primary decision-makers in what a mother should eat, when and if she should visit a clinic, and how she should care for her newborn. To address this cultural dynamic, BabyCenter, a Johnson & Johnson company, worked with MAMA to develop a second set of mobile adaptable messages geared towards household decision-makers.
Debate
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Mobile - A Bridge Across the Gender Divide
The digital divide continues to shrink throughout the world, but women in low-income countries do not have equal participation in this technological revolution. Although more than one billion women have access to a mobile phone in developing countries, a woman living there is still 21% less likely to own a cell phone than a man.
Editor's Pick
Ignoring Innovation: A Review of Michael Levi’s ‘The Power Surge’
The Breakthrough
The "iron law of climate change" says that this challenge cannot be achieved by making energy substantially more expensive. Across the world in countries rich and poor, people have repeatedly indicated that while they will pay some price for environmental objectives, that willingness has its limits.
The "iron law of climate change" says that this challenge cannot be achieved by making energy substantially more expensive. Across the world in countries rich and poor, people have repeatedly indicated that while they will pay some price for environmental objectives, that willingness has its limits.
Editor's Pick
Bill Gates: How GDP Understates Economic Growth
The Guardian
Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about where to focus their limited resources. How do you decide which countries should get low-cost loans or cheaper vaccines, and which can afford to fund their own development programmes?
Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about where to focus their limited resources. How do you decide which countries should get low-cost loans or cheaper vaccines, and which can afford to fund their own development programmes?
Debate
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Mobile Phones for Women’s Empowerment
The demand for mobile phones among women in low- and middle-income countries is great, and we must seize the opportunity to use new technologies to transform women’s lives in meaningful and lasting ways.
May 13 - 19, 2013
Article
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Ending HIV/AIDS in the United States
I know that if we can change a room, we can change the District. If we can change the District, we can change the United States. And if we can change the United States, my goodness, we can change the world.
Editor's Pick
Why Bill Gates Thinks Ending Polio Is Worth It
NPR
Foundation calculates that to wipe out polio worldwide, it would cost about $5.5 billion over six years. Gates is adamant that wiping out polio is worth the hefty price tag. "Once you get zero, all the expense to protect people goes away," he says. "So you have two choices: You can spend less and have the disease spread back and paralyze lots and lots of kids. Or you can double down and get to zero."
Foundation calculates that to wipe out polio worldwide, it would cost about $5.5 billion over six years. Gates is adamant that wiping out polio is worth the hefty price tag. "Once you get zero, all the expense to protect people goes away," he says. "So you have two choices: You can spend less and have the disease spread back and paralyze lots and lots of kids. Or you can double down and get to zero."
