April 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

How Monsanto Hurts Farmers Around the World

As sustainable food blogger Katherine Gustafson has previously written, Monsanto's 93% hold on the soybean market — in addition to various questionable practices — have lately drawn the concern of the Obama administration. In recent weeks, the company's...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 12:59 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

5 Reasons Beekeeping is Good for Development

It must be human nature to seek out simplistic solutions and all-in-one fixes. It's certainly the case for global development practitioners, many who are constantly on the lookout for the newest poverty alleviation fad. Well, there's never going...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 12:27 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Will a Patent on This Wonder-Food Save Lives?

When it comes to Plumpy'nut, opinions diverge on whether it's a complex wonder-food or basically just a glorified kind of Nutella. But there's no arguing over its curative properties: the peanut-laden concoction has saved thousands of lives...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 10:17 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How Iraq's Health Care System Has Changed

Normal 0 0 1 339 1937 University of Chicago 16 3 2378 11.1282 0 0 0 The Iraqi medical system was once an enviable one. Prior to the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq had one of the foremost health care systems in the region with advanced resources, medical...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 7:31 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Urban Slums: A Millennium Development Success?

When the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000, the urban slum population was 767 million. Today, it's estimated that this figure has increased in absolute terms to 828 million in the last decade. My laptop calculator tells me this is...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2010 8:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

In Haiti's Tent Cities, Unusual Schools Thrive

When you think of education, you might not think "tent city." Still, though, as Haiti's formal education system struggles to get off the ground, educators can learn a few tips from some unlikely role models: the temporary schools erected...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2010 6:48 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Different Visions for Fighting Developing World Corruption

As we've written about before, corruption is one of the most debilitating forces in the developing world, and a major contributor to global poverty. Corruption has many faces: a local NGO worker engaging in dishonest accounting; a police officer demanding...

Published Wed, Apr 07 2010 3:40 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Natural Disasters Are Getting the Best of the UN

Flooding and landslides continue to wreak havoc today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — the most torrential rain seen for decades, and only months after devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, too. It's hard not to wonder if the number of natural disasters...

Published Wed, Apr 07 2010 9:20 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Dialing Into the Fight Against Poverty

For most of us, cell phones are little more than a piece of plastic and a bill to pay. But in the developing world, they could be cause for celebration. The opportunities born out of the explosion in mobile phone access in unlikely parts of the world...

Published Wed, Apr 07 2010 7:40 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Better Late than Never? H1N1 Vaccine (Finally) Arrives in Africa

The New York Department of Health caused a stir when it gave the H1N1 vaccine to Goldman Sachs employees in early November — before it was made available to most hospitals. But if you scale this minor inequity up globally, where's the outrage? National...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 2:32 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Making School in Africa Free: The Good and Bad News

If you're part of a family forced to choose between meeting basic needs and paying school fees, what choice do you make? For most, the choice is clear. Survival is the first priority, regardless of what benefits education may confer on a child's...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 8:07 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

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 Future of AIDS Policy, Happening Now in East Africa

HIV/AIDS advocates and policymakers: Pay attention to East Africa, because the future of HIV/AIDS policy is happening there now. The approach — cross-border policymaking that addresses HIV/AIDS as a human right, but also casts it in the larger context...

Published Mon, Apr 05 2010 8:32 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Crisis That's Claimed 27 Million More in Africa

I nearly fell out of my chair when I read this headline : “Africa Has 27 Million More People in Poverty Following Crisis.” Did I miss something? Did something happen in Africa today? It turns out the writer was referring to the economic crisis; the same...

Published Mon, Apr 05 2010 7:21 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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