January 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

What Could the iPad do for Global Health?

Critics say the iPad is just an overgrown iPhone. But in its defense, an overgrown iPhone turns out to be a pretty useful thing -- one with some real possible implications for global health. Like any other tablet computer, it can be used at a bedside...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2010 7:45 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

A New Decade For Vaccines?

There's been a fantastic string of headlines on vaccines these past few days. On Tuesday, Bill Gates told the BBC that a partially effective vaccine for malaria -- which kills a child every 30 seconds -- could be developed in the next three years...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 3:37 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

A Physician's Prescription for Foreign Aid in Haiti

When Paul Farmer speaks, people listen. Usually. The founder of Partners in Health , an organization famously depicted in Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains , over the past 30 years, Farmer has acquired more credibility than almost anyone on...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 8:43 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Five Reasons to Be Hopeful About Haiti's Economy

It's been a week of grim news out of Haiti: the hundreds of thousands missing shelter , delays in water and food delivery . But looking ahead, there are still reasons to be upbeat about the Haitian economy. Economist Paul Collier and Jean-Louis Warnholz...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 6:10 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The Conservative Case for More Haitian Migrants

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As we wrote about earlier today, a poll released by Gallup this week found a yawning partisan divide in how willing U.S. voters are to let more Haitian refugees into the United...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 2:38 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Americans Reject More Haitian Immigrants

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 What does it take to break through the partisan divide on immigration policy? Apparently, even a devastating earthquake that wiped out much of Port-Au-Prince and killed 150,000...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 10:46 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

How a U.S. Dollar to Haiti Breaks Down

If you've been wondering over the past week where, exactly, U.S. government aid to Haiti is going, the AP has published a terrific run-down of literally every penny. Currently, official U.S. pledges to Haiti stand at $379 million, or about $1.25 per...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 8:47 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Why Poor Countries Need Disaster Insurance

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In the wake of the quake in Haiti, observers have scrambled from all corners to reach out with much-needed relief and loans. But what if in future times of crisis, disaster-stricken...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 2:46 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder May Be Haiti's Next Disaster

In the melee of fallen homes and amputated limbs, we forget that some of the longer-term consequences of the earthquake in Haiti may be even more devastating. A Psychology Today blog , though, reminds us of the psychiatric fallout from this kind of disaster...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 1:15 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Scrap Haiti's Debt: An Interview with ONE

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In the past two weeks, activists have rallied to keep Haiti's creditors from hounding the quake-shattered nation, which has already lost 150,000 people to the disaster. The...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 9:39 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Cubans vs. Haitians: A Tale of Two Immigrant Groups

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It's one of the most notorious instances of schizophrenia in all U.S. immigration policy. First, you have Cuban refugees -- who are automatically embraced as fleeing from a...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 1:52 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Tell Obama to Fast-Track Visas for Haitian Refugees

Yesterday, we wrote about how the White House has so far refused to allow newly orphaned Haitian children to come to the United States, or earthquake survivors with U.S. relatives to be reunited with families here. But the administration is reevaluating...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 10:33 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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