May 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

The Open Border Approach to Fighting Poverty

Sometimes, the world of competing aid interventions can start to feel like a crowded casting call. In one corner, there's the microfinance crowd. Near the escalator, the cash-on-delivery crew are holding court, flanked by campaigners from ONE and...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 2:33 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

On "Hatorade" and T-Shirts for the "People of Africa"

Last week my Google Reader account was bombarded by posts about a guy named Jason , his idea to help the “people of Africa” with donated t-shirts and a steady stream of corresponding outrage from aid professionals and observers. Here is the go-to link...

Published Tue, May 04 2010 11:12 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Why We Need to Keep Talking About Development

Today, the United Kingdom goes to the polls in the most closely contested general election in a generation. In the run-up to the election, each of the three main parties' leaders have engaged in a series of debates, including one on international...

Published Thu, May 06 2010 4:51 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Time to Fight the AIDS Backlash

Last week, Jina shared the disturbing news that those testing positive for HIV/AIDS across the developing world are being denied treatment. The immediate culprit for this? The Obama administration, which decided in 2009 to essentially flat-line its funding...

Published Tue, May 04 2010 6:28 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

First World Problems, Third World Solutions

It's a smart, even snarky, reversal of conventional wisdom. For years, advocates in the West have been urging politicians to "do something" about "insert-developing-world-problem-here." Now, if the Design for the First World competition...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 6:46 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What's Your Favorite Security Council Blunder?

Whether you're a United Nations hater or a die-hard fan, my bet is that you haven't agreed with every move the organization has made since its inception in 1945. Especially when it comes to the Security Council. Perhaps you've even thought...

Published Fri, May 28 2010 7:38 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What Makes a Blood Diamond? The UN Dodges the Question

To judge the quality and value of a diamond, jewelers typically consider its cut, carat, overall clarity and hue. And, of course, its provenance. Sample questions include: Was it produced through the forced labor of women and children? Was it extracted...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 9:13 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

If BP Spilled Oil in the Niger Delta

When BP America President Lamar McKay first learned the news about the April 20 rig explosion, his first thought may very well have been: "Oh, @#$%. Not the Gulf." As the extent of the spill's damage has become ever more dangerously clear...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 8:49 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Where Becoming a Mother Kills

Want to know which countries are the worst places to get pregnant in? Take a look at State of the World's Mothers , an annual report compiled by Save the Children that ranks 160 countries. Out of the bottom 10, eight of them are African nations —...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 6:18 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

In Madagascar, Blaming the Poor for Illegal Logging

When it comes to cutting down rainforests in Madagascar, environmental groups around the world are on the case. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the country's government. In the past year, illegal trade of the valuable rosewood trees...

Published Mon, May 31 2010 6:56 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The <i>Financial Times</i> Censors Anti-Shell Ad

Human rights violations , environmental degradation — yes, even complicity in an execution. These are just some of the allegations Royal Dutch Shell is facing in Nigeria. But they aren't allegations that the Financial Times wants you to hear about...

Published Fri, May 21 2010 11:06 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How We Can Honor the U.S. Dead in Afghanistan

Last week, we learned that American deaths in Afghanistan had surpassed 1,000 — a sobering reminder of the human toll the war is exacting. No matter what you think about the reasons we went into Afghanistan, or when we should get out, the sacrifice these...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 4:16 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Wiring Africa's Internet Deserts

Would you pay $4,000 a month for a home internet connection? Marc Andreessen does . That amount, the Bay Area-based Netscape creator says, affords him an unbelievably zippy 100mpbs line. Which at $4,000, you'd expect. But what sort of speed would...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 11:22 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Senate is Ready to Ban Land Mines — Is Obama?

Savor this moment, please: on Friday, a whopping group of 68 U.S. Senators partook in the political equivalent of a kumbaya. After more than a decade of heel-dragging and harrumphing over the U.S. right to use what weapons it pleases, the Senate looks...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 1:04 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Paging Zambia's Government on the Country's Deadly Prisons

The Zambian prison system is a case study in the enormous complexity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. There, even as the virus proliferates among prisoners living in gross neglect, cultural issues and lack of resources are stymieing efforts to fight the disease...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 6:18 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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