Katri Kemppainen-Bertram

The GAVI Alliance, which introduces life-saving vaccines to developing countries, announced yesterday that the price of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has seen a drastic cut from US$13 per dose to US$4.50 per dose (the price in high-income countries can be more than US$100 per dose). Tens of millions of women in developing countries can now be protected against cervical cancer through the vaccine, which protects against 70 percent of the strains of cervical cancer.

A personal reflection to Save the Children’s new report, “State of the World’s Mothers.”  On Sunday, May 12th, several countries in the world will celebrate Mother’s Day. It’s a day that most of us associate with flowers, cards, boxes of chocolates, or perhaps that late-in-the-evening-just-in-time-I-still-remembered-call. Many of us – and I include myself into this

World Health Day, this Sunday, April 7, marks a time to for us to reflect on some immense achievements that have been accomplished in global health in the past years. Coinciding with the last 1,000 days before the 2015 expiration date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is also a time to think about where we’re heading in the years – and decades – to come.

Katri Kemppainen-Bertram discusses the co-epidemic of TB/HIV and how combatting them together could be the solution to the epidemic. What do you see when you visualize an organization called The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria? Possibly sex (as HIV can be transmitted through unprotected sex), possibly drugs (anti-malaria pills during travels where