The ubiquity of mobile phones and decreasing cost of SMS are beginning to transform health care systems in some of the most impoverished regions of the world—places such as Kibera, Nairobi, Africa’s largest urban slum. But even as Kenya’s mobile penetration is nearing 80%, better access to health information doesn’t always translate into more health …
We are pleased to announce the 2015 class of the Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship. The 12 new Fellows are trail-blazers in their fields, which include maternal and child health, urban planning and sanitation, and education. This year, they will be joined by four new Food Security Fellows who bring a special focus on agricultural …
There is a crop of young people who have chosen to defy the odds and succeed in their chosen fields of endeavour in spite of the harsh economic terrain of the country and lack of opportunities and infrastructure that continue to hinder many of their peers from seeing the potential they possess within to accomplish …
JOHANNESBURG — A FEW weeks ago, as I was leaving my office, I stopped at a traffic light and watched a young woman cross the street in front of me. She wore a pair of jean shorts cut fashionably high, and I could see the crease of her left buttock extend each time she took …
Nairobi, Kenya — SHE’S a 4-year-old girl named Ida, fragile and shy, and when she was raped by a neighbor boy in September, her family tried to have the attacker arrested. Yet the only interest the police showed was to ask for a bribe equivalent to $11.50 to make the arrest, the family says. The …