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Six Things We’re REALLY Thankful For!

It’s Thanksgiving in the United States, a holiday where many American families gather around the table and take time to express what they are thankful for. We find our hearts also thinking about the incredible innovations in health care for moms and babies around the world. Here are just six we are really grateful for!

8 Gifts for Hanukkah & #GivingTuesday!

Happy shopping with a purpose, for those you love!

Celebrate Solutions: Stopping Violence in its Tracks

Safety is important, but preventing violence is much more effective than trying to avoid it. Say No! Unite to End Violence.

Our Partners Helping in the Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: more than 4 million homes destroyed, and 9.5 million people affected with thousands confirmed dead. The effect on the country’s telecommunications, agriculture, and transportation infrastructure has severely delayed recovery efforts.

Universal Children’s Day

Leith Greenslade is passionate about the world’s children. The Co-Chair of Child Health or the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Health Alliance believes that the world is on the cusp of incredible progress for women and children’s health, and that you cannot separate the futures of these two groups.

Celebrate the Toilet

Sometimes the things that bring the greatest benefits to our lives are also the most under-appreciated. Example: toilets. Can you imagine your life without one?

World Prematurity Day: the Impact of Premature Birth Right Here at Home

Many of us have loved ones who have directly experienced the trauma of premature childbirth, and many of us have had the gift of incredible medical care to bring us through that trying situation.

For Mothers and Babies, Light Means Life

"When I was a child in Sierra Leone, sometimes I studied by candlelight. Decades later, many parts of my country and of Africa, especially in rural areas, are still excluded from the immense benefits of electricity." ~ Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella

“Girls are for marriage”

At age five, Kakenya was engaged to a boy from her neighborhood, and she considered herself lucky. Her new fiancée was around her age, and most girls in her community met their husbands—much older men—on their wedding day. 

Newsday Tuesday: Cooking Shouldn’t Kill

It seems almost too simple, but here’s one way to save a million lives each year: use cleaner cookstoves. Breathing in the soot and smoke from the stoves women use every day to prepare meals for their families is so harmful that it kills more people every year than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.