May 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

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

3 New Directions for U.S. Global Health Strategy

Last week, Foreign Policy magazine got hold of a White House strategy document for U.S. global development, including global health. The document has gotten lots of attention in global development circles, mainly because of the juicy implications it holds...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 7:21 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Time to Recommit to Foreign Aid Funding

Ruth Messinger is part of Change.org's Changemaker network, a network comprised of leading voices for social change. "America, Thank You So Much" sings the Stigmaless Band, a group composed of HIV-positive Ugandan teenagers taking drugs...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 6:26 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The BBC Sends More Glamour Girls to Report on Poverty

It's getting very, very weird over there in the BBC's production studios. First, the U.K. broadcaster sends Lindsay Lohan (of Hollywood glam-girl fame) to investigate child trafficking in India. Now, the BBC has decided to fly Chantelle, Ellie...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 3:13 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

China Tries to Get Beyond the Smoke

As someone who's spent probably way too much time considering the smoking habits of the Chinese (on stupefying 42-hour train rides, as men skulking the corridors with lit cigarettes fill the air with sooty clouds; while reporting about counterfeit...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 10:16 AM 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

What Sustainability For Global Health Really Means

It seems like every time I'm at a conference on global health or international development, "sustainability" is the buzzword on everyone's lips. I've often wondered, however, what does all this talk of "sustainability"...

Published Mon, May 10 2010 1:59 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

UNESCO Gets Chummy With Equatorial Guinea's Dictator

You wouldn't expect the United Nations to offer a Robert Mugabe Award for Presidential Distinction, would you? ( Motto : "If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.") Or a World Food Programme Than Shwe Humanitarian Medal? Of course...

Published Mon, May 10 2010 8:29 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Africa’s World Cup is Skipping Over Africa

By the time the World Cup kicks off in Johannesburg this summer, we’ll have had our fair share of stories like this one in Sunday’s New York Times , on the lasting scars apartheid has left on the South African nation, a country still struggling to come...

Published Mon, May 10 2010 6:14 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Pedals for Progress in the Developing World

In the spirit of spring cleaning and good weather, I thought I'd give you all a little spotlight on one of my favorite organizations: Pedals for Progress. Pedals for Progress (or P4P for short) is a small non-profit organization that ships used bicycles...

Published Sat, May 08 2010 8:21 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Is the World Bank Napping on Land Grabbing?

Actually, napping might be a generous assessment. Plenty of observers are more inclined to think that the World Bank is deliberately soft-pedaling information about what's going on. And possibly making the situation worse. We've written about...

Published Fri, May 07 2010 4:52 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Putting Anti-Poverty Experiments on Trial

I doubt that former World Bank president Robert Zoellick or USAID head Rajiv Shah are accustomed to thinking of themselves as leech doctors. But that's exactly what they are, according to economics professor Esther Duflo. Much as the medieval doctors...

Published Fri, May 07 2010 12:51 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

For the Military, Fighting Global Poverty: Mission Critical?

Bono is back on the scene. This time, our favorite pop-star/activist wants the U.S. military to support giving humanitarian and development aid as much funding as the Defense Department receives. While the ONE Campaign's new project "Development...

Published Fri, May 07 2010 10:20 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Drugging Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

It probably shouldn't be a surprise, given that mosquitoes have managed to outlive dinosaurs, but it turns out that they're tough little bugs. There's no shortage of malaria drugs we've used to try and fight their impact. There's drugs...

Published Fri, May 07 2010 6:31 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

World Bank Data? There's an App For That

When the World Bank announced it was building a shiny new website (complete with its own iPhone app) to open up access to 2,000 development statistics for the first time, it came as something of a surprise . Development advocates, after all, had been...

Published Thu, May 06 2010 12:26 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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