PATH BlogThis week’s roundup brings us as close as we get to celebrity news on the PATH Blog, albeit celebrity news of a serious sort. Bill Gates has released his fifth Annual Letter outlining his thoughts on global health. This year, … Continue reading
For babies, breast milk is the one and only super food. It provides all of the energy, nutrients, and fluids they need during their first six months of life as well as antibodies that help keep them free from illness. … Continue reading
Our reading this week brought us a stark mix of good news/bad news. In Forbes, a Merck executive put forth ideas on how the public, private, and nonprofit sectors can bring lifesaving commodities to women and children (good news), while … Continue reading
Heather Ignatius, a senior policy and advocacy officer with our Advocacy and Public Policy team in Washington, DC, recently sent us her thoughts on global health and development priorities for the second-term Obama administration and the 113th Congress. As President … Continue reading
Life in rural Kenya can pose challenges for a young girl—not least the hunt for sufficient and nutritious food. The story of Pauline, pictured below, inspired our Chief Development Officer David Wu to tell us how the Mama SASHA project … Continue reading
Our sympathies and best wishes for recovery go out to all affected by the superstorm that slammed into the East Coast of the United States this week. Our thoughts are with you. In other parts of the world, there was … Continue reading
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
Rachel Wilson is senior director for policy and advocacy at PATH. Medicines, resuscitators, contraceptives—they’re all essential tools with the potential to save lives. But in developing countries, too often these commodities and others are in short supply or not available … 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
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