Activist Within Congress: Getting personal with AIDS champion Representative Barbara Lee

ONE is celebrating Children’s Book Week with a focus on literature that centers on global issues. By couching “adult” material with friendly illustrations and dialogue, children’s books explore topics previously deemed too scary, too serious or too difficult to understand. Now, children are learning about the world in a way that is safe but informative. We’ve included suggestions that we think are an educational and interesting way to learn about cultures and places that might be very different from the environment where you and your family live. So get to it and see if your local library has a copy of the books below!

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

On International Women’s Day, Luwiza Makulula – a Zambian grandmother and tuberculosis survivor – shares her story of recovery as a powerful reminder of the need to fund institutions like The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that support the world’s women.

With the exception of World AIDS Day, it’s rare to see anything related to HIV/AIDS trending on Twitter, and even rarer still for the trending to happen because of good news.  But the world—online and offline—was abuzz on Monday with exciting news out of the CROI Conference: a young girl in Mississippi had been “functionally

Every time I travel abroad, I find myself thinking, “you should know by now there’s only so much you can learn about global health from behind a desk.” This held true as recently as last week, when I had the privilege of helping staff a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) trip to South Africa.

Yesterday, 210 ONE members stormed Capitol Hill for Lobby Day, attending nearly 175 meetings with members of Congress to urge them to protect our life-saving programs for the world’s poorest people. Lobby Day is the crown jewel of the the 2013 ONE Power Summit. After three days of learning about ONE’s issues, sharing best practices

Samantha Thornton details one woman’s personal struggle that effectively saved a community. This piece was originally posted at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and is part of a larger project, “South Africa’s Healthcare Crisis in the Eastern Cape“. In the Eastern Cape of South Africa, Grahamstown, home to Rhodes University, is a city rich in academic

Janet Fleischman and Julia Nagel share the Center for Strategic and International Studies‘ video featuring the voices of women in Zambia talking about the importance of integrating cervical cancer screening and testing into HIV services. Cervical cancer kills an estimated 275,000 women every year, 85 percent of whom are in developing countries. The link between HIV

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation‘s President and CEO Charles Lyons shares his experience in the Kingdom in the Sky. I have just returned from the Kingdom of Lesotho, a country entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa; a country that’s about the size of  Maryland, but has a strong reputation for providing important lessons

David Olson speaks on how Brazilians combine fun and responsibility during this year’s Carnaval. Sao Paulo, Brazil — Brazilians are bracing for the six days of Carnaval. The annual bacchanalian festival held 40 days before Easter, begins this weekend across this country of almost 200 million people. Many will participate directly as musicians, dancers and