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Fuente: World Health Organization 2012 WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank estimates

Fuente: USAID In commemoration of Mother’s Day, Save the Children is publishing its thirteenth annual State of the Word’s Mother report.

Fuente: TED Talk Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine -- with fewer cowboys…

Fuente: TED Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids.

Fuente: BILL & MELINDA GATES Foundation Undernutrition is an under-appreciated cause of about one-third of all deaths in children around the world before their fifth birthday.

Fuente: The Lancet Last month, the Lancet published a review analyzing inequalities in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions by intervention and country. Although SM2015 countries were not included in this analysis, the message, methodology and findings here are important to groups…

Fuente: The economist IN ELDORADO, one of São Paulo’s poorest and most misleadingly named favelas, some eight-year-old boys are playing football on a patch of ground once better known for drug gangs and hunger. Although they look the picture of health, they are not. After the match they gather…

Fuente: www.grandchallenges.ca Grand Challenges Canada has three funding opportunities that are currently open and accepting applications. They are looking for bold ideas with big impact!

Fuente: Ambergris Today Acting Prime Minister of Belize and IDB President sign an agreement for a $1.25 million operation, the SM2015 Initiative’s first project in Belize