December 2009 - Global Health - The Network of Care

Five Success Stories in Global Health from 2009

We've had a lot of reasons to be optimistic about Global Health in 2009. There are still millions dying needlessly around the world, but it's important to remark on programs that are working, and build on schemes that give us reason to be optimistic...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 10:10 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Smoking Epidemic in Africa Could Contribute to 8 Million Worldwide Deaths

There are is no epidemic more easily preventable than smoking. And as it already kills 5.6 million people a year, especially hitting sub-Saharan Africa, now is the time to make a new years resolution to better monitor the threat and alert countries to...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 9:12 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Remembering the Tsunami Five Years On, And Creating Solutions for the Future

Five years ago, the second largest earthquake ever recorded, and a subsequent tsunami, hit the Indian Ocean killing more than 220,000 people. The world came together in the days following Christmas in 2004 and rallied to provide $7 billion in aid. Now...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 1:07 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

How Smallpox Eradication Led to a Tragedy: Interview with Laurie Garrett

This is Part II of an interview with Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Garrett has written widely — and passionately — about the importance of health systems development...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 8:59 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Climate Change Fuels Growth of Dengue Fever — Spreading to Florida Now!

A global rise in temperature of only four degrees would double the speed at which dengue fever develops in mosquitoes. Climate change is equipping mosquitoes with deadly diseases even quicker than before, explained NBC . It already infects 50 million...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 11:18 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Interview with Laurie Garrett on Status of H1N1; Obama's Global Health Plans

What has the power to change the health landscape around the world? HIV medication? Bed-nets to prevent children from getting malaria? Vaccines for diseases, like rotavirus or polio, which have long vanished from the public health landscape in the developed...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 9:44 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

H1N1 Likely to Rank as Mildest Pandemic Ever

Though they continue to advocate that everyone be vaccinated, and warn that the spread of flu remains entirely unpredictable, experts explain that things may not get as bad as first suspected. Leading epidemiologists explain that H1N1 Swine Flu could...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 7:38 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Global Health Delivery 2.0: Open-Sourcing Global Development

Aid workers in the developing world are about to get a boost through "simple, free, easy-to-learn systems that are powered by the open and collaborative nature of the Web 2.0 strategy," reports the biomedical journal PLoS Medicine. They report...

Published Sat, Dec 05 2009 8:35 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Pneumonia Plague Rumor-Mongerer Arrested in Russia

You may think that the internet is the perfect tool to track the spread of pandemics, warn people, and use the power of a search engine like Google to track who's searching where to monitor, for example, the spread of the H1N1 virus. But there is...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 11:17 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Could a Soccer Tax Help Educate the World's Poor?

Soccer could help two million children around the world receive education. That's the basis of a United Nations appeal to FIFA. They're asking the international soccer association to consider placing a levy on all sponsorship deals in order to...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 11:27 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

World AIDS Day: South Africa To Test and Treat Every Baby

To mark World AIDS Day , the South African government has announced a major initiative to test and treat all South African babies under the age of one if they test HIV-positive. The previous government asserted that anti-retroviral drugs would be too...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2009 7:31 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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