Global Health

The Global Carbon Offsets Scam

Carbon offsets were supposed to be The Next Big Thing, the have-your-cake-and-eat-it-to solution to global warming. They certainly are the next big business; the United Nations has predicted that the carbon offset market will be worth close to $100 billion...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 5:59 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Bono Stumbles Upon a Good Point on Microfinance

I’m not a big fan of Bono’s new gig as a contributing columnist over at the Times (mostly because I find him to be a much better singer than writer), though I will give credit to anyone who can use “doppelganger” and “Mike Tyson” in the same sentence...

Published Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:30 AM 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

When Did HIV Prevention Go Retro?

Any child of the 80s or early 90s should intuitively feel the improvement that’s been made on HIV/AIDS around the world. If you’re my age, or a little older, you remember Ryan White, and now you’re old enough to know why: He was the kid who got AIDS from...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 11:58 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Link Between Tax Reform and Malaria

When it comes to the fight against malaria, don't just think about white-robed scientists or larger-than-life figures like Bill Gates, the presidents of Tanzania and Uganda argue in a new Wall Street Journal op-ed . Consider, instead, the role of...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 2:17 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Should Sovereignty Get in the Way of Humanitarian UN Action?

With Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years just two months away, it's no wonder that the eyes of the humanitarian community are nervously focused on the country. Fears abound that Khartoum may yet again prevent a legitimate election...

Published Sat, Feb 27 2010 7:06 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Inside India's Sagging Health System, One State Shines

Normal 0 0 1 436 2488 University of Chicago 20 4 3055 11.1282 0 0 0 All is not right with India's health care system. Across the country, infant mortality and communicable disease rates are alarmingly high, and malnutrition stunts the growth of almost...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 7:20 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

U.S. Moves Toward a National AIDS Strategy...Finally

It's open season on the Obama administration, as the president gets pummeled for everything from mishandling health care to perceived wimpiness . But the White House deserves kudos for its reasoned, rational approach to developing a national HIV/AIDS...

Published Fri, Mar 05 2010 7:04 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The World's Missing Healthcare Workers

When it comes to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, health workers might not immediately come to mind. From bed nets to vaccines to anti-retroviral drugs, there are plenty of symbols in the fight for global health with more popular resonance...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 12:14 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Making School in Africa Free: The Good and Bad News

If you're part of a family forced to choose between meeting basic needs and paying school fees, what choice do you make? For most, the choice is clear. Survival is the first priority, regardless of what benefits education may confer on a child's...

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 8:07 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A Physician's Prescription for Foreign Aid in Haiti

When Paul Farmer speaks, people listen. Usually. The founder of Partners in Health , an organization famously depicted in Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains , over the past 30 years, Farmer has acquired more credibility than almost anyone on...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 8:43 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

A New Decade For Vaccines?

There's been a fantastic string of headlines on vaccines these past few days. On Tuesday, Bill Gates told the BBC that a partially effective vaccine for malaria -- which kills a child every 30 seconds -- could be developed in the next three years...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 3:37 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Americans Reject More Haitian Immigrants

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 What does it take to break through the partisan divide on immigration policy? Apparently, even a devastating earthquake that wiped out much of Port-Au-Prince and killed 150,000...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 10:46 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Hiring Earthquake Survivors in Haiti

It may sound callous to tell an earthquake survivor in Haiti, "Get a job." But that's effectively what the United Nations will do, says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- and, in fact, that's probably a good thing. Under its "cash...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 8:28 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Dispatch: Delivering Supplies to Haiti

Port-Au-Prince has always been a chaotic and dusty city, says Charles King. So when King, the executive director of Housing Works , drove inside last weekend after flying down from New York to deliver aid supplies, the outskirts of the city didn’t look...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 11:33 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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