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We have an obligation to invest where it makes the most difference for children. But how do we decide what will reap the greatest benefits in the long term? The dilemma of whether to invest in services that provide immediate benefits, or in evidence generating initiatives for the long term, is a...

This piece looks at the rates of HIV/AIDs among children in Sub-Saharan Africa and current programs to address such rates. https://blog.savethechildren.org/category/u-s-programs/child-survival

This month's issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health includes three articles that focus on the detection and outcome of depression in adolescence. This editorial attempts to identify some key themes arising from these studies and to contextualize the findings from a global perspective. Naicker and...

Regardless of where a family or caregiver falls on the poverty line, children deserve adequate nutrition, access to healthcare and the opportunity to enroll in and complete school. Yet, children are often unjustly impacted by poverty and disproportionately represented in measurements of poverty. As...

This article argues that humanitarian aid should be administered on the principle of selfless assistance, not for political gain for the administering country. He feels that certain NGOs use humanitarian aid as a guise for promoting political interests instead of promoting safer livelihoods for...

In this blog, Professor Alpaslan Ozerdem - Co-Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University - writes about the "othering" of young people that often occurs during discussions of conflict and argues that young people have the potential to be positive actors in...

This economic forum piece shares both the strides and areas of improvement for humanitarian action in Africa. The author was the president of the International Rescue Committee. Background: Africa is changing dramatically – and so are outsiders’ attitudes toward it, with the US finally seeming...

A sobering, even bleak, picture was painted by the team evaluating the implementation of the EU’s first Gender Action Plan, or GAP as it is commonly known. While we all knew that this wasn’t going to be a rosy account, good news was certainly thin on the ground. GAP AFTER GAP The GAP was widely...