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Fuente: TED Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids.

Fuente: BILL & MELINDA GATES Foundation Undernutrition is an under-appreciated cause of about one-third of all deaths in children around the world before their fifth birthday.

Fuente: The Lancet Last month, the Lancet published a review analyzing inequalities in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions by intervention and country. Although SM2015 countries were not included in this analysis, the message, methodology and findings here are important to groups…

Fuente: The economist IN ELDORADO, one of São Paulo’s poorest and most misleadingly named favelas, some eight-year-old boys are playing football on a patch of ground once better known for drug gangs and hunger. Although they look the picture of health, they are not. After the match they gather…

Fuente: www.grandchallenges.ca Grand Challenges Canada has three funding opportunities that are currently open and accepting applications. They are looking for bold ideas with big impact!

Fuente: Ambergris Today Acting Prime Minister of Belize and IDB President sign an agreement for a $1.25 million operation, the SM2015 Initiative’s first project in Belize

Fuente: NPR Scientists can spend years working on problems that at first may seem esoteric and rather pointless.

Fuente: Caribbean Journal Belize's government has pledged $500000 for the programme, a number matched by the SM2015 Initiative, for the first 18 months of the project.

Fuente: Caribbean News Now! SAN PEDRO, Belize -- On Thursday, Belize joined the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative (SM2015) -- a project that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality among the poor, benefiting more than 30,000 young women and children.