global health

Maurice Middleberg of IntraHealth International discusses the moral necessity of US spending on global health programs.

Miracles are not free. They cost eight cents a day, the average cost to each American citizen for the UScontribution to saving lives among the world’s poorest, about one-fifth of one percent of the US government budget. Some people say eight cents is too much.

Akimbo, the blog of the International Women's Health Coalition blog, features Sin Nombre,  a film about MDG #1, eradicating poverty and hunger globally.

RH Reality Check is highlighting Akimbo's first ever film festival, focused on each of the eight Millennium Development Goals as a way to increase awareness of the issues about which the goals are related.

Working in the global reproductive health arena, I think about the profound grief my own mother experienced having lost a child and then about the millions of women around the world who face this sort of grief as a part of their daily lives because they lack access to reproductive health care. But we can make a change this Mother's Day.