the Optimists
Mohamad Nasir just celebrated his fifth birthday. If he’d been born only a few years earlier, Mohamad may not have hit this milestone. That’s just one reason among many why we should look up—and ahead
THIRTY YEARS AGO, 1 IN 5 CHILDREN IN Ethiopia didn’t live to their fifth birthdays. The government, struck by those dire prospects, made a long-term commitment to improve health care and increase the number of providers throughout the country. Ethiopia wrestled down its mortality rates for children under five by two-thirds from 1990 to 2012—an impressive feat for
