January 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

Hiring Refugees in Haiti

It may sound callous to tell an earthquake survivor in Haiti, "Get a job." But that's effectively what the United Nations will do, says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- and, in fact, that's probably a good thing. Under its "cash...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 8:28 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Help Fight Cancer by Owning Your Own Healthcare

Fran Drescher is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Fran is the President of the Cancer Schmancer Movement. 2010 is our year, my friends. And let me tell ya why. You may or may not know it, but...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 7:23 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Donations to Haiti: Kids Edition

On this drizzly Sunday afternoon (in Washington, anyway) -- especially on the heels of Friday’s celebrity fundraising bash -- thought I’d post a round-up of the creative and inspiring ways students have mobilized in the past week for Haiti. In the immediate...

Published Sun, Jan 24 2010 10:59 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Stars Pick Up the Phone for Haiti

Stars for Haiti last night aligned, as over 100 artists from Taylor Swift to Madonna converged for a two-hour telethon on behalf of the quake-devastated nation. Organized by George Clooney and Wyclef Jean, the show may have been a "study in carefully...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2010 9:11 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

A Plea for Partnership in Haiti

From Congo to Sweden, governments around the world are flooding Haiti with a $ 1 billion outpouring in aid. But while such funds are key, deploying them well requires something that’s seldom happened -- partnership with the Haitian government. That’s...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 3:06 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Reporter in Haiti: "I Marvel at Their Strength"

For a first-hand perspective on the situation in Port-au-Prince this morning, we reached out to Pooja Bhatia, a current fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs who’s been based in Haiti for over two years. She's been filing front-page reports...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 6:29 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Dispatch: Delivering Supplies to Haiti

Port-Au-Prince has always been a chaotic and dusty city, says Charles King. So when King, the executive director of Housing Works , drove inside last weekend after flying down from New York to deliver aid supplies, the outskirts of the city didn’t look...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 11:33 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

IMF Says Yes, Drop Haiti's Debt

Over the past week, members of the Paris Club (including the U.S., U.K. and France) rallied in their call to relieve Haiti's existing debt. Today, activists are greeting the latest two heavyweights to join their ranks: the IMF and World Bank. Last...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 9:51 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

What Would Haiti's Marshall Plan Look Like?

So, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now calling for a 'Marshall Plan' for Haiti. That's a very nice sentiment. We hear it a lot these days, especially when nasty things like disasters strike countries or places that seem far away. By my...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 2:18 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Big Pharma Pitches in Against Malaria

We've seen plenty of examples of good corporate citizenship this week, and now this morning comes another. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, long characterized by some activists as a kind of Grim Reaper-Scrooge, is opening up new possibilities...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 9:51 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Not So Healthy for Disaster Zones: Baby Formula

Amid this past week’s maelstrom of good intentions, hundreds of users on Twitter have been calling for donations of a product to Haiti that could prove fatal: baby formula. “Anyone who can donate BABY FORMULA for babies in HAITI, urgently needed!” reads...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 7:36 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Wireless Providers Respond to Pressure on Haiti

Just one week after the quake in Haiti, text message donations for relief have topped a whopping $22 million. Now, as increasing scrutiny has focused on how quickly those funds will reach relief efforts, two wireless providers have announced they'll...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:22 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Making Sense of Logistics in Haiti

As frustrations with aid delivery mount, “logistical challenges” has become a phrase du jour and frequent headline in recent coverage coming out of Haiti. To get a ground-level perspective on what that means, we turned to John Simon , who’s handled disaster...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 1:12 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Should Cruise Ships Stop in Haiti?

That's the debate that has the media currently up in arms, as the cruise line Royal Caribbean has continued to make its serene voyages to the (undamaged) private Haitian island it leases, called Labadee®, located just 100 miles from Port-au-Prince...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 9:41 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Haiti, History and Debt

As has been well-remarked upon over the past week, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. (A quick news search from the past week pulls up 690 hits for the phrase.) But at Richard Kim writes eloquently in the Nation , to end the story...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 7:12 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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