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The vast majority of the world’s population is extremely dependent on other people and institutions to provide them with the wherewithal to expand, grow, develop and prosper.  We rely on doctors to cure us, on teachers to help us learn, on clerics to guide our spiritual thinking, on governments to provide us with services and opportunities, on employers to guarantee our financial security and on councilors to assist us through difficult times.  All of these have an important place in our lives, but the level of dependency which we allow dominate our lives needs to be examined.  If this leve

The development framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015 is already being mapped out – and civil society groups should plug in now to get their priorities included in the deliberations, panelists at an InterAction event said this week.

October 13 marks the International Day for Disaster Reduction. On this day, we at USAID pause to reflect on everything done to prevent or reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and storms. This year, together with the international community, we pay extra attention to the role played by women and girls around the world to keep their loved ones safe from harm, not just today or tomorrow, but every day.

As executive director of UNAIDS from 1994 to 2008, I was privileged to have a front row seat at one of the great global health struggles of modern times. Although our work against AIDS is far from finished, we have stabilized the pandemic and started to imagine a world without AIDS.

Unfortunately, the same is not true of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, which cause nearly two out of three deaths in the world (80 percent of those in developing countries).