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Corruption is an enormous global challenge, likely costing more than $1 trillion annually or $120 for every person. World leaders have long promised to tamp down on corruption. Unfortunately, we’re getting nowhere. 

VACCINATION is one of the true wonders of humanity, having saved more lives than any other medical invention and providing population-level control of diseases that once ran rampant.

The financial cost of this global tragedy can be as harrowing as the unbearable emotional pain.

The death toll of mothers and young infants in the world’s poorest countries is an unacceptable and largely avoidable tragedy. Investing just $3.7 billion annually in BEmONC and family planning is not only low cost,...

Corruption is a trillion-dollar problem globally each year, with very few answers. Over the past decade, we have made zero progress towards fighting it, despite the UN setting the target to end corruption in its sig...

One of humanity’s biggest achievements in the last century was making a huge increase in food production. Read the second part of the 12-piece series in Daily Graphic.

Today, vaccines have made common diseases like diphtheria, typhoid, measles and whooping cough virtually extinct.

Research shows that a 1% increase in agricultural value added per hectare can bring about a quick 0.4% drop in poverty and a long-term 1.9% decrease, achieved through a combination of lower food costs and increased ...

Unfortunately recession, inflation, and many other global challenges caused us to lose focus on the huge potential that vaccines offer.

Of all the hundreds of promises that the world has made in the SDGs, most of which will never be delivered, a few stand out for their incredible effectiveness. Increased vaccination is clearly one of these policies....