June 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

Lessons From the Portfolios of the Poor

They save and borrow, they pay for funeral expenses and hospital costs. They travel and even enjoy a drink from time to time just like anyone else, but with one big difference — they’re poor. The aid community expends a great deal of time and effort on...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 1:57 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

In Northern Nigeria, Gold is Prevalent, but Children are Not

One day, a group of medical workers traveled to a poor African village to immunize local village children. Only, there were hardly any children to be found. As it turned out, most of the children were dead. Though this sounds like the shocking beginning...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 6:18 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Bhopal Verdict: Two-Year Sentence, $2,100 Fine

Usually, the end of a 25-year-old legal battle affords a sense of closure or relief. Not so in the case of Bhopal, which culminated yesterday in renewed grief after the defendants were sentenced to just two years in prison, with an additional fine of...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 7:31 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Do We Really Know How Many Kids Are Dying in Africa?

An epidemiologist working in Tanzania once lamented , “In Africa, most people are born, live, and die without leaving a trace in the official record.” Unfortunately, the statement is all too true. Recently, Yemisrach Kifle posted about the news that childhood...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 1:59 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

World Bank Misses the Boat on Tuberculosis in Africa

What happens when you pour billions of dollars in funding into an idealistic-sounding (if dubiously implemented) program for 13 years, but fail to invest evaluating it? Well, sooner or later, a group like ACTION (Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 7:13 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Other Necessary Health Intervention: Roads

In Afghanistan, it's a tale of two provinces. The first is the northeastern region of Badakhshan, a relatively peaceful province that boasts a comparatively high number of maternal health resources: 106 midwives and 73 health centers. The second is...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 9:28 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Haitian Farmers Protest Monsanto's 'Gift'

Last week, 8,000 Haitians marched to protest — of all things — a humanitarian donation: Monsanto's gift of seeds to the country, which was devastated by an earthquake this past January. These farmers were joined by U.S. groups , peoples' movements...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 3:44 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Can Redrawing the Map "Fix" Africa?

When I talk to people who’ve never been to Africa, there’s sometimes a tendency to treat the continent as a dysfunctional object. I’ll get asked questions about ethnic conflict and corruption, and I’ll get the 30-second warning that Africa is ceasing...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 6:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Jill Biden Reminds U.S. Voters What Poverty Really Looks Like

Just a day after I wrote about what putting a face on poverty can do for us, the White House — specifically the Second Lady, Dr. Jill Biden — reminded us what humanizing the lives of the poor really means. During her trip to Kenya this week, Dr. Biden...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 11:26 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

15 Years Late, Justice for Bosnian War Crimes

Name this country: Civil war decimated its people and infrastructure 15 years ago. Land mines still litter the countryside. Unemployment is up to 45%. The UN has blamed everything from corruption to brain drain to ethnic divisions for its economic woes...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 3:20 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

For Better or Worse: Exporting U.S. Ideas of Insanity

"To travel internationally is to become increasingly unnerved by the way American culture pervades the world," writes Ethan Watters in the most recent edition of Adbusters . I couldn't agree more. I've eaten at more TGIFs, listened to...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 7:14 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Lessons From Zenani Mandela's Lethal Car Crash

As the World Cup opened today, the death of Nelson Mandela's great grand-daughter — the 13-year-old Zenani — dimmed the day's celebrations. The news of Zenani's death is, as FIFA president Sepp Blatter puts it in a letter to Mandela, “unspeakably...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 8:50 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Can Guatemala's Farmer-to-Farmer Movement Rise Again?

If you walk into the Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture's office, you will see an impressive wooden desk. On the left-hand corner, it says "Donated by Bayer Science Agrochemicals." Turn around, and there's a plush couch bearing the plaque...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 1:48 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What Kenya's New Budget Can't Do

Is Kenya's new budget a blueprint for hope, or just a smokescreen? This week, the country's finance minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, presented the new 2010/2011 budget plan to parliament. If adopted, it will be the largest budget in Kenyan history —...

Published Sat, Jun 12 2010 7:47 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

New Hope for Mobile Banking in Haiti

Imagine not having access to a bank account. Your town is in shambles, and the nearest financial institution or money transferring station is miles away. Such is the scenario many Haitians have continued to experience in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 6:46 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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