Category: Health
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Child malaria cut in half
The good news: In its 2013 Malaria Report, WHO reports that “Worldwide, between 2000 and 2012, estimated malaria mortality rates fell by 45% in all age groups and by 51% in children under 5 years of age. If the annual rate of decrease that has occurred over the past 12 years is maintained, then malaria mortality…
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2013 Report on Children and AIDS
Unicef reports that “More progress has been made between 2009 and 2012 than during the previous decade, according to 2012 data, which show a 35 per cent decline in new HIV infections among children under the age of 15 years, compared with 2009.2 In 2012, coverage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for pregnant women living with HIV…
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State of World Population 2013
The 2013 report from UNFPA focuses on preventing adolescent pregnancy. Not unlike our own experience, it underscores the closely interlinked underlying conditions that must be addressed to achieve this: Child marriage, Gender inequality, Obstacles to human rights, Poverty, Sexual violence and coercion 19%, National policies restricting access to contraception, age-appropriate sexuality education, Lack of access to education and reproductive health services, and underinvestment in…
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Obama commits to end extreme poverty in 20 years
Not since FDR’s Four Freedom’s speech in 1941 has a US president spoken out strongly for ending world hunger and poverty in a State of the Union Address, as did President Obama in his February 12, 2013 address. In one paragraph he expressed a broad, multi-pronged commitment: “We also know that progress in the most…