Monthly Archives: July 2012
Are Kids of the World Doing Better? Not When it Comes to Hunger
This week, we released our Child Development Index and the bottom line is: kids deserve a lot better. The Index ranks the best and worst places in the world to be a child based on education, health, and nutrition statistics. While there is some good news in terms of education and child survival rates—33% […]
Posted in Health, Nutrition
Tagged Child Development Index, children, Feed the Future, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger, Sahel, save the children, USAID
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Family Planning Saves Lives, But Millions Can’t Access It
The following first appeared on Care2.com _______________________ Around the world, an estimated 222 million women who don’t want to get pregnant cannot access contraception. I was surpised to learn Namutebi was one of them. On the way to the Ugandan hospital where I met Namutebi, I saw several clinics advertising family planning services. The […]
Posted in Health
Tagged children, family planning, Health, maternal health, pregnancy, reproductive health, save the children, Uganda, women
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