July 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

An Ambulance That's a Bicycle

Locals call the contraption a Zambulance, or a Zambike. It's not much — just a mattress-outfitted trailer strapped onto a bicycle. But in a part of Zambia where a four-hour walk separates most villages from the nearest hospital, the hope is...

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 12:51 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

$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

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

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 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

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

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

Developing Africa's Best Apps, From the Bottom Up

Last week, Apps 4 Africa joined the growing ranks of online competitions geared at finding digital solutions to the world’s real-life problems. But this contest doesn't exactly fall into the traditional mold. What’s unusual about the contest is not...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 7:08 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Case of Naomi Campbell's Blood Diamond

You'd think getting called to testify about whether a man on trial for war crimes once gifted you a mammoth 'blood diamond' might cloud anyone's holiday. If so, supermodel Naomi Campbell gave no indication this past weekend — she spent...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 9:05 AM 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

A U.S. Image Consultant For Equatorial Guinea's Dictator?

Guess who's gone and hired an image consultant ? None other than Equatorial Guinea’s resident dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Apparently, his reputation as one of the worst dictators in Africa hurts his feelings. It's not enough that he's...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 4:30 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

Condoms That Fight Rape, With Teeth

When Sonnet Ehlers was a 20-year-old medical researcher, she was called to help a rape victim. "She looked at me and said, ‘If only I had teeth down there,'" Ehlers tells Kenya's Nation newspaper. And Ehlers thought, Good idea . Forty...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 7:52 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Developing World's Top 10 Ethical Destinations

As a world traveler and adventure-seeker, I'm always looking for the next hot spot. But as a student of global development and poverty, I've grown wary of many travel opportunities — especially in the Third World. It seems like the chances I'll...

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 5:57 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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