As the effects of COVID-19 continue to evolve, our ONE team understands that this is a challenging and difficult time, and we are thinking of you all. This pandemic is affecting both our local neighborhoods and our global community in an unprecedented way. As we adjust to this temporary reality, these unsettling times remind us why our mission is so important. As we’ve painfully seen with COVID-19, diseases don’t respect borders and the need for collective action on global health...
Activists from across the United States were on Capitol Hill this week to lobby their lawmakers to tackle global health and poverty challenges. After three days of advocacy training, 160 activists were at the Capitol on Tuesday February 25 for ONE’s annual Power Summit. This year, we advocated for funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and for senators to pass a bill to help stop global corruption and money laundering. Want to get involved? Call your representative and ask them to...
To save you reading through the thousands of pages of President Donald Trump’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2021, here’s a quick look at the good and bad news and what it means for the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease. We’ll start with the good news… The budget contains full funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which helps vaccinate children in the world’s poorest countries, and a $1.16 billion multi-year pledge. While Congress has the power of the purse,...
Why do we need to invest in global health programs? Just look at what’s happening right now in China. It’s only January and we have already seen the first major health alert of the new decade, following an outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, China. In a short amount of time coronavirus, a contagious respiratory infection that can be fatal, has already spread to nearly every province in the country and in the past week has reached Europe and North America. The...
What’s tiny, portable, cost-effective and powerful enough to save lives? A vaccine. Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective health tools ever invented. In Gavi-supported countries, every US$1 spent on immunization generates US$54 in broader societal benefits thanks to people living longer and healthier lives. There’s a lot of misinformation out there about vaccines, so we wanted to make sure you have the facts. Here are a few things you should know about vaccinations. 1. Immunization saves up to 3 million lives...
In the fight against extreme poverty, the smallest thing can make the biggest impact. Something as small as a vaccine has the mighty power to save millions of children’s lives worldwide. Over the next few months, we’ll be advocating for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to make sure that people everywhere can access the vaccinations they need to live healthy lives. Here’s everything you need to know about Gavi: What exactly is Gavi? Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is an organization that improves access to...
Ending poverty isn’t about charity or top-down interventions. It’s about ensuring people have the tools to build their own better future, writes Mimi Alemayehou as she joins ONE’s board. Great organizations — whether public, private or non-profit — that operate on a global scale tend to possess some of the same core attributes. They take a long-term view of their mission. They have a can-do mentality, refusing to be daunted by the complexity of the challenges they face. And they...
In 2018, 770,000 people died from AIDS-related causes. Malaria is back on the rise, especially among children under 5 years old, who account for two-thirds of all malaria deaths. More than 10 million people contract TB every year, but nearly 40% of those are left undiagnosed. If you don’t live in a community where these diseases are prevalent, they might seem like far away issues — but global health affects everyone. That’s why everyone, everywhere, should play a part to...
HIV/AIDS likely isn’t on the front page of your morning paper—but the crisis is still affecting millions of people worldwide. Thirty years ago, news of HIV/AIDS swept the world. Unsure of what it was, what caused it, and how to stop it, fear and stigma became hallmarks of the epidemic. While many bought into the stigma, others decided to take action. 5B is a documentary following nurses who worked in the first HIV/AIDS ward in the United States, San Francisco General...
In 2017, a group of five Kenyan teenagers, known as “The Restorers,” began an innovative project: developing an app that would combat female genital mutilation (FGM). Their app, I-Cut, helps girls at risk of FGM find rescue centers, while also providing medical and legal advice to those already affected. Their story took the world by storm, getting picked up by news sources worldwide. But, what happened after the buzz, where are they now, and why did the world forget...