June 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

In the Niger Delta, Disbelief at the Response to BP's Spill

This is how the Guardian 's environmental editor describes a recent trip to the Niger delta, a region overlaid with hundreds of 40-year-old, decaying pipelines: We waded into the warm tropical water and began swimming, cameras and notebooks held above...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 8:09 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A Nigerian Sultan Helps Gates Rethink His Polio Strategy

In 2000, the picture of polio around the world looked pretty good: just 1,000 cases were reported that year. Bill Gates saw this as an opportunity: a chance to invest a little bit of his money and not just control a disease, but eradicate it. Last year...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 7:00 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Corruption Gets an Unfair Rap, Says Uganda's President

Back in the late 1990s, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni was lauded as Africa's "other statesman," second only to the much-adulated Nelson Mandela. At the time, the New York Times described the former Marxist as believing the continent's...

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 1:18 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Beyond Africa's Mobile Buzz

Farmers in Ghana sending text messages to check the price of tomatoes in faraway markets? Rural Kenyans who can use their cell phones to bank from home? By this point, you might feel thoroughly saturated with the buzz about cell phones and development...

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 7:42 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A New Virus in Africa, Forging a Path Toward Famine

A new virus is on the prowl in Africa. And though it does not attack people directly, it is threatening millions of East Africans. The disease is called brown streak, and right now it's infecting cassava, the most prevalent food source in Africa after...

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 6:31 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Toasting One Haitian Rum Maker's Revival

How many liquor producers out there have successfully survived 19 coups, a dictatorship and an embargo? If you like your rums spectacular and steeped in history, you might think about purchasing a bottle of Barbancourt this weekend. Aged in white oak...

Published Wed, Jun 02 2010 9:22 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Ending African Hunger: Companies Line Up to Make a Killing

They're the easy bad guys of the American Heartland. If you've seen Food, Inc. , you know that the genetically modified seeds that bring record harvests to farmers also bring ridiculous headaches in the form of intellectual property claims, which...

Published Wed, Jun 02 2010 6:03 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Kenya's Push For Fast-Growing, Sustainable Homes

To hear its fiercest adherents tout it, bamboo starts to sound a lot like international development's hemp . It can be used for seemingly everything: it can be eaten, used as water pipes, made into laptop parts and even turned into wrinkle-resistant...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 4:36 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Can Techonomy Teach Us Something New?

When the State Department held its Haiti Tech Meet-Up last month to talk about how technology is at the crux of Haiti's relief effort, I cried foul. The whole thing looked like a political stunt to me — a missed opportunity to actually move forward...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 2:05 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Rich Countries Agree: Recruiting Health Workers from Poor Nations Is Not OK

Not anymore, anyway. After years of so-called "brain drain" — a phenomenon in which health care professionals in poor countries end up migrating to serve wealthier, better-paying clientele overseas — the World Health Organization has voted to...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 9:03 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Crafting Change for Rwanda's Artisans

A few years ago, I accompanied a friend to the crafts market here in Kigali, Rwanda. He had been coming and going from Rwanda for years, but he always needed gifts. And they needed to look African. Trouble is, he told me, "Rwandan handicrafts suck...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 6:19 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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