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Child marriage: A persistent hurdle to health and prosperity
On this Sunday, October 11, the world marks the International Day of the Girl Child. While the day is an opportunity to advocate for girls’ rights across many sectors, one persistent, pernicious issue...
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Hacia un modelo universal: 24 países y el “cómo” de la cobertura sanitaria...
La adopción de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) durante las reuniones de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas celebradas recientemente fue una noticia digna de festejo: el futuro al...
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In a community ravaged by Ebola, signs of hope and continuing need
photo: Dominic Chavez / World Bank 2015 We trudge past the towering mosque, past where the girls had skipped rope, past a trash heap piled high with cars. We step over a sewage trough, amble down a...
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Bringing Mental Health Services to Those Who Need Them Most
“Welcome to my house!” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim during his opening remarks to the Peruvian President, First Lady, Minister of Health and Mayor of the district of Carabayllo. Dr. Kim...
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Can 11,000 Cuban doctors improve health care in Brazil?
As I was flying to Brazil recently to learn more about the country’s Programa Mais Medicos (PMM, or the “More Doctors” program) , I tried to visualize 11,000 Cuban doctors newly recruited to Brazil,...
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Civil registration and vital statistics: key to better data on maternal...
Domimic Chavez / World Bank 2015 Today, the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG)* released Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2015. It reports that, worldwide, maternal...
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Cancer care: A neglected area in global health?
Paul Farmer recently wrote in this space about Essential Surgery, the first volume released of nine expected in the Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition series. He characterized that book as...
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Female Education and Childbearing: A Closer Look at the Data
With positive signals for fertility decline emerging in sub-Saharan Africa, and development economists debating the potential for African countries to see a “demographic dividend,” it’s a good time to...
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World AIDS Day: Four steps to achieve epidemic control
World AIDS Day 2015 marks an unheralded but profound increase in our response to HIV and other major infectious diseases. In the last year, HIV diagnostics and medicines have made a real step change,...
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Shining a light on mental illness: An “invisible disability”
This year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed December 3, takes as its theme: “Inclusion matters: Access and Empowerment for People of all Abilities.” Under this umbrella, the...
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Where did the demographers in Africa go?
We are writing this from Pretoria, at the seventh African Population Conference (APC) jointly hosted by the government of South Africa and the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS). The...
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Turning scars into stars: Gender-based violence program in Nairobi private...
Stuffed animals line the window sill, toys crowd the room’s perimeter, children’s crayon drawings depict a loss of childhood.About the campaign#16Days blog series In this therapy room and throughout...
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Financing health for all
Universal health coverage, a pillar of sustainable development, is highlighted in Agenda 2030, to promote health and well-being for all. Propelled by the United Nations and global partners, the...
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Will India leapfrog toward universal health coverage?
It’s that time of year again, when we observe a day dedicated to the most ambitious health goal of all: universal health coverage, or UHC. On UHC Day (Dec. 12) we commemorate the date in 2012 when the...
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Running away from “Tobacco Road”
Image: Patricio Marquez Earlier this fall, my oldest son invited me to watch him run his first half marathon in Durham, North Carolina. While standing at the starting line, facing hundreds of runners...
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Closing health gaps for women: The Botswana story
HPV vaccine being administered in Botswana. Photo: Ministry of Health of BotswanaThe World Bank Group’s new Gender Equality Strategy for 2016-2023, launched last week, addresses gender inclusion not...
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Nigeria’s seven lessons from polio and Ebola response
Amid the devastating effects of West Africa’s Ebola outbreak to human lives, communities, institutions, systems and the economy, there are lessons to be learned for the region to be better prepared to...
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Cancer: Africa’s silent killer
When you walk through cancer wards of public sector hospitals in Africa, the scenes are reminiscent of the battle to get AIDS treatment under way in the early 2000s. But now, hospital beds once filled...
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Time to put “health” into universal health coverage
photo by: Patricio Marquez While on a walk with my younger son over the holidays, we got into a good discussion about the future of health care. After taking a class on health economics this past...
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2015: A Look Back, A Look Forward
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year, and reflect on several notable events from 2015 - a year of remarkable progress in global health, and...
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