Global Health

Where the Fight Against Malaria is Being Won

Anyone who's ever felt disheartened about the fight against malaria — the fact that a child dies in Africa every 45 seconds from the disease, to take just one statistic — would do well to turn their sights towards Rwanda. As recently as five years...

Published Fri, May 14 2010 9:14 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

For Many Children, Not Working Isn't an Option

Want to know the latest good news about child labor? According to the International Labor Organization, child labor actually declined by 10% among kids aged 5-14 between 2005 to 2008. And wait, it gets better. Even among child laborers, the number engaged...

Published Fri, May 14 2010 6:26 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The World's Future Megacities

By 2050, it's estimated that nearly seven out of 10 people in the world will be living in a New York City, a Tokyo, a Beijing or a New Dehli. Or any one of dozens of as-yet nameless megacities currently sprouting up around the world. The United Nations...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 4:22 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

A Tale of Two UNICEF Leaders

This month, Anthony Lake became UNICEF's executive director. He's the agency's sixth such figure, joining the agency — like his predecessor Ann Veneman — after an impressive career in the U.S. government. In fact, in many ways...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 12:34 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Wiring Africa's Internet Deserts

Would you pay $4,000 a month for a home internet connection? Marc Andreessen does . That amount, the Bay Area-based Netscape creator says, affords him an unbelievably zippy 100mpbs line. Which at $4,000, you'd expect. But what sort of speed would...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 11:22 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

FIFA Takes on World Cup, Poverty All at Once

On Monday, I published a piece on the contradictions that arise out of the fact that South Africa is hosting of the 2010 World Cup — namely, the contrast between the glitz of the competition and the extreme poverty of much of the host continent. One thoughtful...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 9:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

First World Problems, Third World Solutions

It's a smart, even snarky, reversal of conventional wisdom. For years, advocates in the West have been urging politicians to "do something" about "insert-developing-world-problem-here." Now, if the Design for the First World competition...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 6:46 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Senate is Ready to Ban Land Mines — Is Obama?

Savor this moment, please: on Friday, a whopping group of 68 U.S. Senators partook in the political equivalent of a kumbaya. After more than a decade of heel-dragging and harrumphing over the U.S. right to use what weapons it pleases, the Senate looks...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 1:04 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

3 New Directions for U.S. Global Health Strategy

Last week, Foreign Policy magazine got hold of a White House strategy document for U.S. global development, including global health. The document has gotten lots of attention in global development circles, mainly because of the juicy implications it holds...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 7:21 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Time to Recommit to Foreign Aid Funding

Ruth Messinger is part of Change.org's Changemaker network, a network comprised of leading voices for social change. "America, Thank You So Much" sings the Stigmaless Band, a group composed of HIV-positive Ugandan teenagers taking drugs...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 6:26 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The BBC Sends More Glamour Girls to Report on Poverty

It's getting very, very weird over there in the BBC's production studios. First, the U.K. broadcaster sends Lindsay Lohan (of Hollywood glam-girl fame) to investigate child trafficking in India. Now, the BBC has decided to fly Chantelle, Ellie...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 3:13 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

China Tries to Get Beyond the Smoke

As someone who's spent probably way too much time considering the smoking habits of the Chinese (on stupefying 42-hour train rides, as men skulking the corridors with lit cigarettes fill the air with sooty clouds; while reporting about counterfeit...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 10:16 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Paging Zambia's Government on the Country's Deadly Prisons

The Zambian prison system is a case study in the enormous complexity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. There, even as the virus proliferates among prisoners living in gross neglect, cultural issues and lack of resources are stymieing efforts to fight the disease...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 6:18 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What Sustainability For Global Health Really Means

It seems like every time I'm at a conference on global health or international development, "sustainability" is the buzzword on everyone's lips. I've often wondered, however, what does all this talk of "sustainability"...

Published Mon, May 10 2010 1:59 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

UNESCO Gets Chummy With Equatorial Guinea's Dictator

You wouldn't expect the United Nations to offer a Robert Mugabe Award for Presidential Distinction, would you? ( Motto : "If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.") Or a World Food Programme Than Shwe Humanitarian Medal? Of course...

Published Mon, May 10 2010 8:29 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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