March 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

The Great Aid Debate: Does Aid Work?

Every once in a while, someone gets to feel very smart by smugly announcing that international aid doesn't work and it in fact just makes things worse. There is indeed a reason why anti-aid arguments are popular and keep on re-surfacing. There are...

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 6:47 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Where There Are No Doctors

In western Uganda's Kyaka II refugee camp, as Laura wrote earlier this week, women are fashioning a living out of sanitary pads composed of waste paper and papyrus. It's a terrific exercise in ingenuity, if not necessarily one that begins to grapple...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 8:47 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

International NGOs in Haiti On the Defensive

It's always good to see NGOs engaging in some robust debate with their skeptics in the field. Unfortunately, an open commentary posted this week by InterAction -- the largest U.S.-based relief and humanitarian coalition out there -- feels closer to...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 10:47 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

To Alleviate Poverty, Give the Poor Cash. What's Wrong With This Picture?

For all the world's much-vaunted desire to alleviate poverty -- and the never-ending quest to figure out how -- donors still shy away from perhaps the most straight-forward solution out there: give poor people money. Okay, so maybe that's not...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 3:39 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Cancer is the New Malaria (How Can We Make Infrastructure Sexy?)

Ashton Kutcher battled CNN to be the first to get one million Twitter followers. He won, and bought 10,000 mosquito nets for Malaria No More as a victory prize. Colin Powell, Warren Buffet and Robin Williams have lent their stunning visages to Smile Train...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 1:46 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Giving Congress the Good Global Health Stories

I wonder whether Bill Gates, burdened by global cares, counts statistics at night rather than sheep as he tries to fall asleep. He certainly has a talismanic series of them to offer -- some of his "favorites" which he rattled off before the...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 12:02 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Using Mobile Phones to Fight Counterfeit Medicine

When the headlines hit in Nigeria just over a year ago, they had an eerie congruence to them. Antifreeze Laced Teething Medicine Kills At Least 34 Children . Multiple batches of counterfeit teething medicine had killed dozens of children -- in some cases...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 2:26 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

U.S. Vs. Canadian Food Aid: Which Does Better?

When it comes to foreign aid, the U.S. and Canada have long indulged in a degree of neighborly competition over who's more generous. It all depends on what you measure, of course, but at least on one metric -- flexibility of aid -- Canucks are racing...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 2:18 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

New Pneumonia Vaccine Can Save Lives, But Not Alone

It's easy to assume that the drug research undertaken by big-name U.S. pharmaceuticals isn't relevant to the developing world. Occasionally, though, beyond the Lipitors and Viagras, such companies do manage to come up with something that looks...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 10:49 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Beer Makes People More Attractive...

...to mosquitoes. That's the finding of a new study that helps explain why mosquitoes seem so much more attracted to some people than others. Researchers -- who focused on a malaria-endemic area of Burkina Faso -- found that volunteers who'd drank...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 1:41 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The Ground View: Why Social Justice in Global Health Matters

Recently, Victor argued here that talk of social justice should be more prominent in global health debates . I agree -- though I don't think a rhetoric of social justice is a universal panacea. Using social justice as a frame, though, does help enrich...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 9:31 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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