July 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

$140 Million in U.S. Food Aid Wasted on American Ships

Wasteful and inefficient. That's how a new report by Cornell University researchers describes U.S. food aid. According to their research, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) wastes roughly $140 million a year because it ships U.S...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 5:56 AM 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

For Burma, Threat of "Black Death" Lurks

Look out for dead rodents. That's the warning that Burma's Health Ministry circulated last week among government departments, which urged civil servants to report cases to the nearest health office. A similar warning for civilians was published...

Published Wed, Jul 14 2010 11:57 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How Your Web Search Habits Can Help Fight Global Poverty

What if you could help fund poverty programs in the developing world, just by searching the Internet? These days, sites like Australia-based ripple.org are harnessing the power of online advertising to allow our everyday web habits to help those in need...

Published Wed, Jul 14 2010 7:25 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

Six Months Later, Recovery in Quake-Devastated Haiti Falters

As Bill Gates touches down in Haiti to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the country's devastating quake, it's hard to avoid evidence of how disappointing the overall relief effort has been. Even as Haiti's president hands out medals...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 8:13 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A Better Path For Haiti's Recovery

Ruth Messinger is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. It appears that Haiti's "15 minutes of fame" are up. With few exceptions, the journalists who flooded the zone following the...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 6:15 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A New Spotlight on Global Health's Unsung Heroes

It's a common set-up — every x seconds, y children die of <insert disease here> — but a new ad campaign by Save the Children inverts the message. The nonprofit knows that you know too many children are regularly felled by preventable diseases...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 3:37 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Solar-Powered Light Bulb Shines in the Developing World

In parts of the world where electricity is a). too expensive b). non-existent or c). always being cut off by power rationing, candles and kerosene light the way for everyday tasks such as cooking, schoolwork and cleaning. For those of us accustomed to...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 12:42 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Renewed Hope For an AIDS Vaccine

Have you heard the good news on HIV/AIDS? Last week, researchers announced that they've identified antibodies that kill more than 90% of all strains of the AIDS virus. It may be the best news in HIV prevention and treatment research since effective...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 7:29 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Resuming the Fight Against Child Slavery in Haiti

Normal 0 0 1 457 2607 21 5 3201 11.1280 0 0 0 When Ambassador Luis CdeBaca toured Haiti last Wednesday , he had only one goal. President Obama’s appointee on human trafficking hoped to prevent human exploitation from becoming yet one more challenge for...

Published Sat, Jul 10 2010 7:48 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Keeping Health Workers in Rural Communities

The case of the developing world's missing health care workers can be explained in many ways — some more contested (for e.g., brain drain) and complex than others. Now, the World Health Organization is trying to boil down such phenomena to help governments...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 3:21 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Millions of Hungry Families Are Not a "Market Opportunity"

This is a guest post from Josh Berkman, Associate Director of Media and Marketing at American Jewish World Service. There's been a lot of buzz lately about "business minded do-gooders," as Forbes editor Kerry Dolan describes them in a review...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 12:09 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

In China, Ideas of Mental Illness Move Beyond Class Struggle

During the 1960s and 1970s, to be schizophrenic or afflicted with any other mental illness in China meant you were someone who didn't fully comprehend Mao Zedong's little red book. That was the diagnosis people were given, anyway — and the remedy...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 8:18 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Making the East African Common Market More Than Just a Pipe Dream

Last week, members of the East African Community (EAC) — Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda — announced the launch of an idea that looks good on paper: the creation of a common market. The goal of the new agreement is to allow unrestricted...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 3:47 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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