March 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

No Health Care for Domestic Trafficking Survivors

Normal 0 0 1 349 1992 University of Chicago 16 3 2446 11.1282 0 0 0 Much has been written over at our human trafficking blog about the lack of services offered to children and adults who are victims of trafficking and sexual abuse. But while we often...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 7:43 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Turning Toilets Into Trees

What if you could turn your *** into food? The idea may seem crass and unsanitary, but that concept is actually becoming the basis of sanitation projects across the developing world. Composting toilets -- known as ecological sanitation (or eco-san for...

Published Sat, Mar 06 2010 10:48 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Not-So-Useful Advice for Haiti Donors

Pulitzer Prize-winner and former NYT foreign correspondent Joel Brinkley has some advice for governments planning to attend a donor's conference for Haiti this month: don't bother. But hey -- Brinkley, why such a gloomy Gus? It's true that...

Published Fri, Mar 05 2010 2:00 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Denying Pain Medication: An International Law Violation?

It wasn't an ad you'd expect to see in the classified section, but there it was, nonetheless: Cancer is killing us. Pain is killing me because for several days I have been unable to find injectable morphine in any place. Please Mr. Secretary of...

Published Fri, Mar 05 2010 11:42 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

U.S. Moves Toward a National AIDS Strategy...Finally

It's open season on the Obama administration, as the president gets pummeled for everything from mishandling health care to perceived wimpiness . But the White House deserves kudos for its reasoned, rational approach to developing a national HIV/AIDS...

Published Fri, Mar 05 2010 7:04 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

U.S. Aid Efforts Discourage Haitian Entrepreneurs

Since Haiti's Jan. 12 quake, the U.S. has spent an average of $33.3 million a day to assist in relief and recovery efforts. The funds have helped flood the country with U.S. personnel and equipment, not to mention much-needed bottled water, rice rations...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 12:58 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Can a Piece of Cloth Keep Girls In School?

We know that poor girls in developing countries often lack access to sanitary napkins. But does a lack of pads actually make it more likely that girls will drop out of school? That's the case that Sheryl WuDunn and New York Times columnist Nicholas...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 9:27 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Why the Developing World Needs More Urban Farmers

These days, it seems, it's all about "local" food. Every weekend across America, throngs of the upper-middle class storm farmer's markets. In Washington, D.C., Michelle Obama has revived the "victory garden," prompting many...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:51 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The Race to Find a Cheaper, Healthier Toilet

Over the past few years, the race to save lives in the developing world -- by inventing a cheaper, cleaner toilet -- has welcomed a whole new class of sprinters. There's Singapore's Rigel Technology, which has invented a $30 toilet that separates...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 9:27 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Do the Millennium Development Goals Limit How We See Global Health?

Is it possible that by focusing so explicitly on certain diseases, the Millennium Development Goals are actually stymieing overall progress on health? Yesterday, I wrote here about how the Millennium Development Goals have succeeded in emphasizing public...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 7:05 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Recycling Haiti's Capital City

25 million cubic meters' worth. That's how much rubble is currently littering Port-au-Prince. Or, to put it in more intelligible terms: enough rubble to pile 13 miles into the sky. Laid end-to-end , the number of individual pick-up trucks needed...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 3:06 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The World's Missing Healthcare Workers

When it comes to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, health workers might not immediately come to mind. From bed nets to vaccines to anti-retroviral drugs, there are plenty of symbols in the fight for global health with more popular resonance...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 12:14 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The Case for Disaster Preparedness

If some enterprising engineer out there hasn't already started a Building Codes Without Borders initiative, you'd think the contrast provided by the effect of earthquakes in Haiti and Chile would kick-start such an effort. Call it a "Tale...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 9:07 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Missing the Millennium Development Goals Doesn't Mean Failure

Ah, 2010. The Year of the Tiger, a year ushering in a promise of explosiveness and unpredictability . It may be a less-celebrated distinction, but 2010 is also the Year of the Millennium Development Goals . What does that promise? Well, from a global...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 7:07 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

In the Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Governments Ignore Drug Users

Asked by Reuters about how governments are doing in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Dr. Don Des Jarlais -- a leading researcher on the disease -- didn't exactly bite his tongue. As he put it (somewhat acidly), protecting individuals "might require...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 12:41 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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