Just when you thought award show season was over, the red carpet will make another appearance at the first-ever Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards (AMVCA) in Lagos, Nigeria! Premiering on Sunday, March 9th, the award show boasts an exciting, live, one-hour red carpet pre-show where the best of African film and TV will dazzle before

No, they didn’t grow up in the same town. They weren’t born in the same month. And I doubt they kick it together on the weekends. So…what is it? Like the President of the United States, Zach is committed to reaching the beginning of the end of AIDS by 2015. It’s obvious how a world

Over the weekend, CNN featured ONE’s Michael Gerson in a piece on the fight against HIV/AIDS and the success of programs like PEPFAR and the Global Fund. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV this week, the CNN piece also features “The Lazarus Effect,” a film by our sister organization (RED)

Staying in tonight? We got you covered! ABC News is officially kicking off its exciting year-long global health series –- “Be the Change: Save a Life” –- with a special edition of “20/20” hosted by Diane Sawyer tonight at 10 p.m. ET. She will be highlighting the world’s top global health issues and ways that

Mama Lyimo, a Tanzanian sociologist, has witnessed first-hand how HIV/AIDS has ravaged her East African country. Compelled by an immense heart and strong will, she set out on a 40-day survey across Tanzania to understand why the disease continues to thrive, leaving behind thousands of orphans in its wake. “Into the Light,” an award-winning documentary

Remember the Nelson Mandela birthday card that you signed and added your photo to a while back? Well, it made it safe and sound. In a recent “60 Minutes” piece on Mr. Mandela’s legacy, we caught a glimpse of our ONE card in the background during an interview with Verne Harris, the chief archivist at

If you read anything this week, make sure it’s Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times magazine piece, “D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution.” According to the article, you don’t need to be a president or work for the World Bank to help the world’s poorest people — you just need a creative idea and the will to take matters

New York City ONE members were in fine form today as they showed up bright and early to be in the audience at NBC’s “Today” show. Wearing ONE shirts and holding signs highlighting the issues of global poverty, more than two dozen ONE members joined together for a chance to get on camera during the

This blog post is part of our special coverage on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit. Keep an eye out for more posts like these throughout the week. The U.N. Summit on the MDGs is a week from today — but don’t panic if you can’t immediately remember the difference between MDG 4 or

The U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is coming up next week, and as you can imagine, our office is buzzing with excitement. We’ve been busy planning and preparing for the big event for what feels like forever — and now that the moment is finally here, we’re pumped to unveil some of

ONE volunteers pose with Maroon 5 ONE is hitting the campaign trail to find out where candidates stand on extreme poverty. Stay tuned for more updates like these from our field team and organizers on the road. You could feel the excitement in the air as fans anxiously waited in line to see Maroon 5

Please welcome Todd Summers to the blog. He’s ONE’s new senior adviser for global health and we’re excited to have him! © The Associated Press 2010 The people that put together “Sesame Street” and Jim Henson’s “The Muppets Show” have been working to create a version in Nigeria called “Sesame Square.” They announced that the

In July, ONE offered its staff members a bit of reading for the summer. In my mind, I was hoping for something light and fluffy — you know, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” or “Charlie St. Cloud” — but of course, we got something infinitely more useful and educational. We got the choice among: