8 minutes and 46 seconds. That’s how quickly the police murdered a 46-year old African American man named George Floyd on May 25th, 2020. The horrifying reality is that we have seen these police killings happen time and time again, and time and time again nothing has been done to stop them. We can’t say […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all aspects of our lives and limited our access to health care globally. This has been especially harmful for women and girls seeking safe abortions. Lockdown measures prevent women from leaving their homes to access the safe abortion information and services essential to their health. Restrictive abortion laws only increase […]
The coronavirus pandemic is making access to food even more difficult for people everywhere. The UN World Food Program estimates the number of people being pushed to the brink of starvation will double to 265 million. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “We have the tools and the know-how to defeat hunger and malnutrition. What […]
As the COVID-19 worldwide death toll breaks 250,000, it obscures the even larger number of lives claimed by another virus: HIV. Since the beginning of the year, over 500,000 people have died from HIV/AIDS. One thing the two viruses have in common is that there is no cure for either. However, we do have the […]
The Trump administration’s decision to halt US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic has met complete rejection from all experts and organizations working to protect public health and human rights. Obviously, the funding cuts imperil global efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives in the US and overseas. But […]
Our impact is only as strong as our partnerships. Fortunately, our enthusiastic and dedicated network of translation partners help bring our health information to people we otherwise would not reach. When we sent out our English COVID-19 Fact Sheet at the beginning of March, we were overwhelmed by the number of people who wrote back […]