October 2009 - Global Health - The Network of Care

Kristof: We Can Stop Women Dying In Childbirth, We Just Need More Money

Sometimes it takes less than 140 characters to get the message across. In a tweet earlier today , Nicholas Kristof wrote: "Maternal mortality: 540,000 women die annually in childbirth, equivalent of 5 jumbo jets crashing a day." 89 characters...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2009 2:16 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Damage Mugabe Did To Zimbabwe's Health Becomes Clear

Zimbabwe's health system used to be something for the nation to be proud of, one of the best in Africa. But as President Mugabe loosens his grip and Prime Minister Tsvangirai works to rebuild, the damage that authoritarian rule has done to the country...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2009 5:53 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Students Build Huge Network To Fight For Global Health Equity

Globemed has built a big network of university students (and alumni) who partner with grassroots health organizations around the world to improve the health of the impoverished. They work with students at 19 university chapters to make a direct impact...

Published Sun, Oct 11 2009 2:41 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Easiest to Treat, Kills the Most: Help Pnock Out Pneumonia with Dodgeball

Why is the world neglecting pneumonia when it's the 'most solvable problem in Global Health'? With the illness claiming the lives of more than two million children a year, some explain that pneumonia just isn't feared in America as much...

Published Fri, Oct 09 2009 10:01 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

GDP is a Terrible Way To Measure Quality of Life, "NNP" Is the Future

How do we measure well being and happiness? Bhutan is well known for having a happiness index that the government takes into consideration just as much as GDP to define quality of life — it's called " Gross National Happiness ." Could such...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2009 8:38 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Climate Change Worsens Natural Disasters, Increases Risk of HIV/AIDS

Following floods and storms in the Philippines, the UN is seeking $74 million in aid. Over a dozen hospitals have been damaged and " cases of diarrhea and skin ailments had been recorded, raising fears about epidemics ." The flooding has killed...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2009 3:34 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Aids Treatment Overfunded in Uganda, and Basic Care Neglected

Significant progress is being made to fight Aids, with 42% of those who need drugs receiving them, and over 4 million poor and middle-income people receiving help. The Economist explains , "the fight, then, is by no means over. But the good guys...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2009 5:03 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

How Will We Feed The World in 2050?

How To Feed the World 2050 is a high-level expert forum held in Rome next week that will ask how on earth we will feed 9 billion people, as demand for food grows, and is forced to compete with biofuels for the arable land. Add a lot of climate change...

Published Mon, Oct 05 2009 6:39 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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