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Nigeria’s health system was a dysfunctional nightmare. Planning, financing, and delivery of basic health services for the poor all were unreliable. Maternal mortality and child morbidity were at unacceptable levels. 

Public-private collaboration and strengthening the private sector can help Nepal achieve health goals—and opportunities to do more are emerging.

Millions of U.S. children receive free or reduced-price lunches each school day, but that number drops greatly during summer. In 2014, summer nutrition programs reached only about 16 percent of the children who received food assistance during the year…

People with a substance use disorder are overrepresented in the justice system, from the arrest phase to incarceration to the risk for recidivism. For example, more than 10 times as many people in prison (58 percent) and sentenced to jail (63 percent)…

The Abt-led Study of Nutrition and Activity in Child Care Settings suggests room to improve provision of opportunities for physical activity during child care.

Abt Global can help public-and private-sector actors take decisive action to finance climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Changing behavior requires reaching people at the right time: when they are open to making a change. One indication of that willingness in the diabetes context is if they are searching for diabetes-related information online. The challenge is how to take…