July 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

When Search Engines Deal in Fake Drugs

Who says Chinese state-run television can't run hard-hitting reports? This week, China Central Television (CCTV) turned heads when it aired a program accusing Baidu — China's primary search engine — of profiting by directing users to sites that...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 10:31 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

You, Too, Can Help Fight Niger's Famine

In poverty-stricken Niger, it comes as no surprise that drought is pushing the most vulnerable people to the brink of hunger. Right? But then you hear a statistic like this one, with the power to shock even the most cynical: right now, fully half of the...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 8:15 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

4 Lessons to Take Away From the Response to Haiti's Quake

Six months after the 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti, what can we learn from the response to the disaster? After the quake struck, the world quickly sprang into action, as rescue workers from 26 countries responded and donations flooded in from individuals...

Published Wed, Jul 21 2010 8:52 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A National Security Plan We Can Believe In

Depending on who you speak to, Dana Priest’s latest Washington Post exposé on the top-secret world of the government’s post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts is either a bombshell or a bust . But is it possible that our best protection against violent extremism...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 3:36 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A Gel That Puts HIV Prevention in Women's Hands

It's odorless, colorless and it comes in a demure plastic applicator. And according to a team of husband-and-wife researchers based in South Africa, it could revolutionize the way HIV/AIDS is fought around the world. The product is a gel — a microbicide...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 12:57 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How to Prevent HIV? Researchers Say, Try Treating It

Does treating HIV curb the spread of the disease or increase it? For years, that's the debate that has raged among scientists. Those that believe treatment decreases transmission usually cite the fact that treated individuals have fewer HIV viruses...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:01 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How to Start Rebuilding Haiti's Health System

A couple of weeks ago, I met a young woman named Marie outside the makeshift laboratory for the Hopital de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti (HUEH) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She was holding onto a napkin, on which were written some required lab tests. She said...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 4:11 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Haiti's Missing Green Jobs

When a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti this January, headlines stayed riveted on Port-au-Prince — the urban epicenter of rubble, chaos and maimed and lost lives. Once the immediate disaster subsided, though, it was plain that recovery efforts needed to...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 11:57 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How H3Africa is Changing Genetics Research in Africa

Right now, events are underway in African research that could revolutionize our understanding of how heredity affects certain diseases, such as high blood pressure. Recently, the National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust launched a program...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 6:30 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Making One Day's Wages Really Count

How much do you make in a day? If you’re the average American, you pull in somewhere around $50K a year. Maybe less and maybe more, but let’s pretend for a minute that that's your salary. Now guess what kind of per-day wage that translates into. If...

Published Sat, Jul 17 2010 6:53 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Making Developing World Inequality Matter Again

Recently, I spent two weeks in Cape Town for the World Cup. None of the pre-tournament fears I had heard were realized, at least not for me: it was safe, well-organised, beautiful and there was enough accommodation and transport to keep people happy....

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 12:39 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How Obama Backed Away From the Global War on AIDS

Dr. Paul Zeitz is the executive director of the Global AIDS Alliance , a position he's held since 2001. Over the past decade, he's led GAA to promote universal access to prevention, treatment and care, among other issues. As backlash against the...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 8:50 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Reports of North Korea's "Enviable" Health System Exaggerated

North Korea enjoyed an unlikely moment in the sun this year, when World Health Organization big cheese Margaret Chan decided to praise the pariah regime's health care system in May. As she noted — quoting North Korean officials — doctors and nurses...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 6:03 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The World's Missing Operating Rooms

When it comes to global health, talk of bed nets and anti-malarial drugs is common. But what about operating rooms? A new study from Harvard researchers (including surgeon and author Atul Gawande ) concludes that 2 billion people — or one-third of the...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 3:59 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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