At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and economic empowerment cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Thus, effective programs need to tackle the multiple root causes of poverty.

The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.