The wait is finally over: this week we are very excited to bring you the episode we’ve been teasing for weeks: vaccines! This week and next (you don’t have to wait a full two weeks for the next…

At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we believe that every person deserves the chance to live a healthy and productive life. In the United States, that means expanding life-changing opportunities,…

Although these estimates suggest some progress in reducing LBW between 2000 and 2015, achieving the 2·74% AARR required between 2012 and 2025 to meet the global nutrition target will require more than…

Kakenya Ntaiya was impatient for the girls of rural Kenya to have access to education. Here’s how that drove her to action.

Melinda Gates shares how her mom's advice helped her navigate the unexpected, get where she wanted to go, and help women all over the globe do the same.

With effective collaboration comes, comes quality nationwide libraries.

Momentous global effort enables record-breaking milestone for polio and immunisation.

The biggest have occurred among insular religious or immigrant groups

Abuja, 13 March 2019 - “In Northern Nigeria where I work as a nurse and polio vaccinator, only women are allowed to enter houses because most women in this part of the country are in purdah (practice…

The measles virus has been around for thousands of years, and is one of the most contagious diseases known to man. Its outbreaks have been responsible for th...

Investing in nutrition is one of the most cost effective health and development programs, yet is often underprioritized in the larger global development agenda. In this episode of Take as Directed,…

For World Immunization Week, a salute to the dedicated frontline workers who have made it their mission to protect children everywhere from preventable infectious disease.

Measles is still technically eliminated in the United States. The disease was declared eliminated after an effective vaccination program in 2000. However, eliminated doesn’t suggest the infectious…

Hundreds of drones will begin delivering life-saving vaccines, blood and medicin...

Zipline, which is already delivering medicine in Rwanda, is about to take on an even bigger project: As many as 600 flights a day, serving 12 million people at more than 2,000 health centers.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), through the KfW Development Bank, are partnering t...

The GPEI Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-2023 lays out the roadmap to achieving and sustaining a world free of all polioviruses. It focuses on three key pillars: Eradication, Integration, and Containment…

Centrist Republican Richard Lugar, a soft-spoken foreign policy powerhouse who c...

This World Immunization Week, get the facts on the life-saving power of vaccines

A successful farmer requires a lot of things — including good land, good seeds and animals, helping hands, tools, time and know-how — and most women farmers don't have equal access to any of them,…

Maps could point the way to stopping malaria.

Think about the last food you ate. Maybe it was a meal or maybe you’re snacking on something right now. Have you ever considered the amount of effort that has gone into plant and animal breeding to…

See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

Malaria has clever ways to fool your immune system, but scientists are fighting back.