PATH Blog
Kathleen Donnelly manages content for path.org, including the PATH blog. A former newspaper reporter and website producer, Kathleen was a freelance writer and editor specializing in global health and development for nearly a decade before joining PATH. You can see her reports from the December 2010 launch of a new vaccine against meningitis in our Meningitis Vaccine Project special feature. Healthy mothers, says Catharine Taylor, have a powerful ripple effect: “To save a mother is to save a family. And to save a family is to lay the foundation for stronger communities and more stable nations.” Catharine, who leads our … Continue reading
Where a woman gives birth should not decide her fate, especially when we have affordable, effective medicines to treat and prevent the leading causes of maternal deaths. Still, nearly 290,000 women, 99 percent of them in developing countries, die each … Continue reading
This week, Forbes published the keynote address Bill Gates gave at the magazine’s summit on philanthropy in June. It’s just one the stories we found fascinating this week. Bill Gates: my new model for giving Forbes, September 18, 2012 I … Continue reading
To mark the first-ever Global Female Condom Day last week, we asked readers of our blog and our friends on Facebook and Twitter how to celebrate. In an idea suitable for the artist Christo, Claudine suggested lining the Lincoln Tunnel … Continue reading
Good news from UNICEF: more children than ever before are surviving beyond their fifth birthdays. A new report (5.2 MB PDF) available on UNICEF’s website estimates that the global number of deaths among children under age five has fallen from … Continue reading
Today is the first-ever Global Female Condom Day, and that means we’ve got a unique opportunity as well as a serious responsibility. Our celebrations today will set the course of Global Female Condom Day festivities for decades to come. So, … Continue reading
This may come as a surprise to those of us used to the whoosh-and-go world of the flush toilet, but getting rid of poop is not easy. “It is complicated,” says Rory Hadden, a postdoctoral student at the University of … Continue reading
AIDS 2012, the International AIDS Conference, is under way in Washington, DC, this week. Among the estimated 25,000 attendees are three young actors from Africa who bring life to the hit television show, Shuga: Love, Sex, Money, which we wrote … Continue reading
First published on March 6, 2012. By all outward appearances, Vio’s got a great life. She’s smart, young, beautiful—and she just got offered a great job writing a column for a hip Nairobi magazine, SWAG. Why, then, is she so … Continue reading
Less than a decade after emerging from a violent war, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is slowly moving toward stability. A hopeful sign of change in the central African country is its work on rebuilding the health system, including … Continue reading
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