Healing the World

President Obama’s ambitious Global Health Initiative — announced to a receptive international community in 2009 — is faltering as budget constraints and shaky implementation limit the impact of the multibillion-dollar program.

This Special Report, produced by The GroundTruth Project, appeared on GlobalPost.com in 2011. 

At the Maternal, Child Health and Family Planning Unit (MCH-FP) children are weighed at the registration desk before being directed out to the different units that the facility supports. Free vaccinations, HIV testing, counseling and (for a subsidized fee) cervical cancer screening are just a few of the services available to pregnant women. mothers and children. Siaya District Hospital, Nyanza Province, Kenya. - (Photo by Mia Collis)