April 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

Empowering Women in Haiti's Tent Cities

Is it possible to cut through a society's cultural norms to save lives? It's a tough question to ask. But if you pose the challenge to the ladies behind the woman's clinic at Haiti's Petionville Club tent city — as I did this past week...

Published Mon, Apr 05 2010 11:44 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Worms That Rule the World

It sounds like a 28 Days Later -type sci-fi film: Fully two-thirds of the world’s population has been infected with a harmful pathogen that eats people alive from the inside out. Except this time the story is true. Worm infections, considered a Neglected...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 6:36 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Yemen: More Than a Global Security Threat

Normal 0 0 1 337 1923 University of Chicago 16 3 2361 11.1287 0 0 0 Why is the U.S. pledging to back a foreign military whose special operations forces have been accused of egregious human rights abuses? Earlier this month, the U.S. promised to help the...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 8:58 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The World Bank Share Shuffle: China Wins, Africa Loses

Signs of China's growing global influence are everywhere these days. The most recent signal of this power shift comes in the form of China's increased say in the World Bank, long a symbol of Western power. China now has the third-highest voting...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 6:42 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Future of Africa's Homegrown Drug Industry

Buried in a story about South Africa's laudable move to scale up its HIV/AIDS interventions was a curious little nugget: the rainbow nation pays far more to give its citizens medicine than many of its neighbors. Thanks to an intervention by the Clinton...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 8:57 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How Dangerous is Eyjafjallajokull's Falling Ash?

A stranded friend wrote me an email from London yesterday, joking that he was going to start an organization called Borders without Volcanoes. Since the Icelandic volcano called Eyjafjallajokull erupted on April 14, the majority of coverage has focused...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2010 9:59 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

In Rwanda, Can Text Messages Make Farming Fairer?

Rwanda this month launched a new project designed to put more money in farmers' pockets. It's called "e-Soko," a play on the Kinyarwanda word isoko , which means market. With e-Soko, a farmer can get the prevailing price for produce...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 3:25 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Why Obama's Pulling Back From HIV/AIDS Funding

It turns out it's expensive to give lifesaving drugs to those 2.4 million people around the world who now rely on the American government to provide them. So, according to the Boston Globe , the Obama administration is thinking maybe we don't...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 5:46 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What's Creole For "News You Can Use"?

In the aftermath of Haiti's Jan. 13 quake, even as medical teams around the world were dispatching surgeons and nurses, one NGO sent their own workers of a less obviously humanitarian kind: radio technicians. Amid streets strewn with rubble, the injured...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 8:04 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What Congress Can Do Now For Global Health

Last week, another health care bill was introduced into the U.S. Congress. It's a bit shorter than the landmark health legislation recently passed, and it certainly didn't claim so many headlines. But it's an incredibly important one for global...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 10:34 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

To Fight Disease, Fight Poverty, Too

"W hy solve any thing other than a great big problem?" was Nathaniel's exhortation to us a few weeks ago on Change.org's Social Entrepreneurship blog. I've been wondering what an answer to this question might be in global health...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 8:42 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Accounting: The Unromantic Development Tool

No one wants to see aid money get diverted to completely non-developmental causes — for e.g., a birthday party, a new fleet of cars, or a $3 million wedding (to pluck just one example out of a hat). The blogosphere was recently up in arms over an article...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 10:08 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Soccer-Loving Kenyans Outraged Over Public TV Ban

When you think about all the challenges a country like Kenya faces, public video halls hardly top the list. Still, though, citing such venues as a bad influence on children, the Muslim leader Sheikh Khalif Mohammed has shut them down in the town of Mandera...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 7:33 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Smart Phone Dilemma

Choosing a new phone has never been harder. I'm not talking about the classic debates: flip-phone v. slider; iPhone v. Blackberry; T-Mobile v. Verizon. While these choices are enough to rattle any phone buyer's brain, they shouldn't be your...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 6:55 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Poor Have More Resources Than We Think

What if you knew that there was $9.3 trillion available to the developing world, but that such resources remained virtually untapped? And we're not talking about oil reserves or diamond veins, either. We're talking about the assets of the poor...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 8:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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