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Better Diagnostics Critical to the Fight against Typhoid

Posted by  on Thursday, May 2nd 2013     
Women and children

When children’s lives are at stake, we need to move quickly. That’s why we need to rise to the challenge of developing better typhoid diagnostics, and soon. Read more >>

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Video of the Week: Education in Kenya

Posted by  on Monday, April 15th 2013     
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Education is an important component of reducing poverty, promoting peace, and empowering individuals to participate in democratic institutions. Read more >>

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Separating Children from Armed Groups in the DRC

Posted by  on Wednesday, April 10th 2013     
Children formerly associated with armed groups engaging in recreational activities at a USAID-supported transit center in Bukavu, South Kivu. Photo credit: Dan Rono

Since 2011, USAID, UNICEF and local partners’ child protection work with UNICEF has separated over 1,100 children from armed groups in the DRC. Read more >>

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Video of the Week: Help a Child Reach 5

Posted by  on Monday, March 25th 2013     
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For the first time in history, we have the available knowledge and technologies to reach the world’s most marginalized children with life-saving interventions. .

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Round-the-Clock Aid for a Syrian Baby

Posted by  on Friday, March 8th 2013     
Seven-month-old Dia'a* sustained burns to his face and arm after a shell hit his house, causing a nearby water heater to burst water onto him. Photo credit: USAID NGO Partner

Syrian baby Dia’a is expected to make a full recovery with the help of U.S.-funded medical care. Read more >>

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A Roadmap to Protecting the World’s Most Vulnerable Children

Posted by  on Friday, December 21st 2012     
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The first U.S. Government Action Plan (PDF) on Children in Adversity provides an important framework through which to guide and galvanize U.S. government agencies to protect the world’s most vulnerable children. Read more >>

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Strong Families Equal Strong Nations

Posted by  on Thursday, December 20th 2012     
Kathleen Strottman is the Executive Director at the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. Photo Credit: CCAI.

Thanks to leaders like Dr. Jack Shonkoff, we know that relationships with other human beings are not a luxury for children, but an absolute necessity. Read more >>

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A Conspiracy of Goodness

Posted by  on Monday, December 17th 2012     
Neil Boothby serves as U.S. Government Special Advisor and Senior Coordinator to the USAID Administrator on Children in Adversity. Photo Credit: Columbia University.

I’ve found there are some things on which everyone can agree. Children need strong beginnings – health, nutrition and nurturing care – to live their most productive lives Read more >>

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Photo of the Week: Happy Baby

Posted by  on Monday, July 23rd 2012     

This year, the International AIDS Society (IAS) is hosting the 19th International AIDS Conference, which takes place in Washington, DC, from July 22–27. Learn more about USAID activities at the International AIDS Conference.

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Saving Children’s Lives, Closer to the Home

Posted by  on Thursday, May 10th 2012     

My most vivid early childhood memory is waking up to excruciating pain in my throat, and seeing the goldfish swimming in the aquarium of the pediatric surgical ward. Although penicillin had been discovered 30 years earlier, doctors had not learned yet that treating “strep throats” with penicillin was better than operating. I didn’t need the [...]

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