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Winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Smile Pinki tells the uplifting story of two young children in India born with cleft lips. Thanks to the efforts of Smile Train, an organization that pays for surgeries to fix clefts, thousands of children around the world are given a second lease on life every single day.

Saving Lives

The Advance Market Commitment scheme, formulated by the GAVI Alliance, aims to provide more vaccines to the developing world by fixing their price over a 10-year period. Is it going to deliver, what will be the result, and how did global health institutions and the big pharmaceutical companies manage to agree on such a deal?

ViewChange: HIV Prevention - Looking Back & Moving Forward

Since the first official confirmed cases of HIV 30 years ago, millions have died, particularly in developing nations. But now there's hope in treatment and innovative prevention strategies. Take a journey to find out what's working in HIV prevention -- and providing hope for the future -- in this new half-hour documentary produced by ViewChange in partnership with PSI (Population Services International).

Living Proof: Ethiopia – Community Health Workers

Confronted with the problem of how to bring basic medical care to remote rural areas, Ethiopian Health Minister Dr. Tedros Adhanom formed a network of health workers. They distribute supplies and teach about preventive measures on a grassroots level.

Bwindi's Babies

Access to proper medical care can be a matter of life and death for pregnant women in rural Uganda and their babies. Elizabeth, a midwife at Bwindi Community Hospital, confronts the challenges facing pregnant women while preparing for the birth of her own child.

CAUTION: This video contains graphic medical scenes.

Living Proof: Ethiopia – Liya's Diary

Most Ethiopian women deliver their babies at home without the aid of a trained birth attendant, increasing the chances of complications for both mother and child. World Health Organization Global Ambassador Liya Kebede confronts the challenges facing mothers and newborns in her home country, and discovers how new programs are helping shift the odds in their favor.

The Health Show: Cholera Introduced to Haiti

A cholera outbreak in post-earthquake Haiti has affected half a million people in just six months. While the Haitian government scrambles to build sanitation infrastructure to break the cycle of disease, health workers rely on education.

Good Goes: Felix from Guatemala

Felix, 25, has been a local health worker in Xachmochán Village, Guatemala, since 2007. He has served almost 100 families in and around his village in that time, treating sick children who otherwise would not have access to the medicines that could save their lives.

Guyana: UNFPA's Campaign Against HIV/AIDS

AIDS is the leading cause of death among young people in the small Caribbean nation of Guyana, but innovative approaches are helping to spread the word about how to avoid HIV.

Living Proof: Nicaragua – A Vaccine's Remarkable Impact

Diarrheal diseases are some of the deadliest afflictions for newborns and young children in developing countries. They are also some of the most preventable. The rotavirus vaccine has reached 80 percent of Nicaraguan children under five years old and is responsible for saving thousands of lives.

Good Goes: Ade from Indonesia

Ade Yunarsih starts her newborn visits each day at 6 a.m., averaging 20 to 30 house calls for each week and delivering about ten babies each month. She?s been keeping this schedule, more or less, for 15 years in the village of Kampung Cirendeng, Indonesia. Ade is the person mothers turn to when they are pregnant, when they are giving birth and when their children become sick.

The Health Show: Riders for Health

Access is often the largest obstacle to healthcare. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rugged, mountainous country of Lesotho, where much of the population lives mired in rural poverty. But one organization, Riders for Health, has introduced an all-terrain option that's linking communities in the most remote regions: the motorbike.

Living Proof: Cote d'Ivoire – A Father and Son Love Story

When Kevin fell ill with HIV, his father took him to the hospital instead of shunning him. His father's love, together with the help of antiretroviral medications, saved his life. Now, Kevin helps other families cope with the disease, giving them the support that his father once gave him.

Good Goes: Aster from Ethiopia

A local health worker from Ethiopia, Aster has dedicated her life to ensuring the health of mothers and children in her community. She traverses over seven miles daily on foot, and has saved countless lives along the way.

HIV and Concurrent Relationships

In Kenya, one specific behavior is playing a major role in the transmission of HIV: concurrent sexual partnerships. PSI and the Government of Kenya address this issue head-on through a groundbreaking communications campaign.

Living Proof: Nicaragua – A Vaccine's Remarkable Journey

Follow the life of a vaccine from its creation in a lab in Pennsylvania to the mouths of newborns in impoverished Nicaragua. This innovative film touches on every step that a pharmaceutical drug must take in its difficult journey to reach those who need it most.