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Revolutionizing Healthcare, One Text Message at a Time

mHeath–using mobile phones and devices to help deliver health care solutions, especially in hard to reach areas–is taking over! Recently, experts in the mHealth community gathered in Tanzania to talk about how to make sure they are delivering the right tools, the right technology and the right solutions, and how to deliver these things to even more people.

Mothers of Kenya Are Fortifying the Future

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Future Fortified campaign has one goal: ‘to help millions of women and children around the world access to the essential nutrients they need to lead healthy, enriched lives.

Setting Goals for the World: Ending Poverty in Our Generation

A new year always brings a sense of possibility. Against the backdrop of newness, many of us try to set goals for the coming year. While the chances of sticking to those goals are low for most of us, data shows that when goals are clear, measurable, realistic, and shared with others, they are far more likely to be achieved. This has been proven for individuals, families, organizations and even countries. But, what about setting goals for the world?

The Last Reported Case of Polio in India – Could Have Been Me

When I look at pictures of three-and-a-half-year-old Rukhsar, the last reported case of wild polio in India, all I can think is that could have been me. With her round brown face and her direct gaze, she even looks like I did when I was a toddler. My Indian parents who migrated to North America never received their polio vaccine when they were infants. When my sister and I were born, they proudly took us to receive our vaccine against a disease they had seen so many suffer from.

Beyond Mountains, Haitians See a Brighter Future

PORT-AU-PRINCE—“Beyond the mountains, more mountains,” a well-worn Haitian proverb goes, in a nod to the outsized challenges this half-island in the Caribbean has faced for as long as anyone can remember.

Top Twelve Triumphs for 2012

1. TIME Person of the Year Runner Up: Our collective support for Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for ...