July 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

Will Congress Vote to Empower Haitians?

Unless Haitian farmers and other small business owners have the opportunity to generate revenue and create jobs, the recovery from last January's catastrophic earthquake will continue to flounder. The Haiti Empowerment, Assistance and Rebuilding Read...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 12:12 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What Would James Cameron Think of Brazil's Forest Communities?

After the glow from Avatar faded, many of the movie's junkies found themselves depressed, knowing that they'd never get to experience the beauty of the world of Pandora firsthand. Actually, they can. It's a world that's home to the Ambé...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 7:12 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Why Does the U.K. Want to Send Children Back to Afghanistan?

The United Kingdom is getting ready to return child asylum seekers back to Afghanistan. Yes, you read that right. The country’s Border Agency is planning to set up a “reintegration center” in Kabul to which it plans to send unaccompanied minors that are...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 1:21 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

3 Ways Hershey Can Stop Supporting "Blood Chocolate"

The chocolate business is booming, but unfortunately, this sweet trade has a bitter underbelly. In West Africa, where most of the world’s cacao beans are grown, the labor of child slaves and grimly underpaid adults is what subsidizes America’s inexpensive...

Published Wed, Jul 14 2010 3:49 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Tree Poaching on the Decline

If the Amazon has traditionally been known as the "earth's lungs," in recent decades, the green reservoir has begun to look badly moth-eaten and scarred. The good news, though, says one London-based think tank, is that such deforestation...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 2:20 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

When Should You Tell a Child They Have HIV?

A parent with a child with HIV faces a terrible conundrum. On the one hand, it’s important to let a kid be a kid — no parent wants their child to constantly worry about his or her own mortality. On the other hand, if parents don't tell their...

Published Sat, Jul 03 2010 6:52 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Send a Greeting Card, Educate an Orphan

You've read the headlines: Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest rate of primary school enrollment of anywhere in the world. In many countries, fully one in four children aren't enrolled in school at all. A shortage of teachers, school fees, distance...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 12:25 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Donors Falter on Education Promises in Africa

It's often said, Never break a promise to a child. Presumably, when we're talking about 32 million children, the adage still holds true. But as the UN agency charged with promoting universal education warns , when it comes to past promises of...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 10:23 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Gift Cards for Haitian Hospitals

By at least one metric, the Hopital Adventiste d'Haiti is quite well-equipped. Its storerooms are filled with wheelchairs, hygiene kits, a thousand-gallon box of dishrags, dozens of laryngoscopes and a 20-year supply of rubbing alcohol and peroxide...

Published Sat, Jul 31 2010 6:22 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Somalia's Problem Isn't Al Shabab, Food Security Is

Or at least, it's a big part of it. And this shouldn't be a little-known fact. It's been true for almost as long as some Change.org readers have been alive, according to the United Nations. And the issue recently surfaced on CNN, as well....

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 6:00 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The UN Calls Water a Human Right

Activists around the world are raising a glass today — of clear, cold water — after the UN today declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a human right. Without water, the average person wouldn't last more than a handful of days (or less...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 12:55 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Why the U.S. Shouldn't Discriminate Against Immigrants With Tuberculosis

As if the debate over immigration reform wasn't tense enough, these days, U.S. public health officials are growing increasingly concerned about the possibility that undocumented Mexican immigrants are entering the U.S. with drug-resistant forms of...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 6:15 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Nigerian Activists Say Counterfeit Pill Peddlers Deserve the Death Penalty

You'd be hard-pressed to make the case that a street vendor hawking fake Gucci bags in any given Chinatown should face the death penalty. But one NGO in Nigeria is arguing that people who traffic in other kinds of counterfeit — specifically, counterfeit...

Published Wed, Jul 21 2010 10:51 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

In Mali, Using Cell Phones to Create Patient Records

Imagine that you're a mother in Mali, named Mme Magassa. When you go to visit a health clinic, you need to arrive with a big, pulpy pile of paperwork. These are your child’s clinical records, which you've shepherded through five different homes...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 10:33 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Unilever Builds a Facebook App To Help Indians Whiten Their Skin

If this was a joke, it'd be a pretty sick one. But yes, it turns out that the skin care company Vaseline (owned by multinational Unilever) has actually launched a Facebook application that will help India's social media mavens whiten their skin...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 10:39 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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