Global Health

Countries Set to "Exceed" Goals on Clean Water Access

Here's a phrase you don't often hear in discussions about the Millennium Development Goals. It turns out that countries are actually on track to meet -- and, in fact, are " expected to exceed " -- the MDGs on securing access to safe...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 1:52 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

New Data Points on Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is an old, old disease. A chronic infection of the lungs, there are some Egyptian mummy samples that suggest it stretches back as early as 4000 B.C. It's also an incredibly lethal one: at one point, some estimate it was responsible for...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 12:33 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Today's Good News on Tuberculosis

On the brighter side of an earlier post , I also wanted to highlight some very good news on tuberculosis. Today, a collection of groups launched a public-private initiative to spur the development of drugs to treat the disease. It's backed by such...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 4:06 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Poor Countries, Poor Choices: An Arms Race to Nowhere

According to a new report , developing countries are spending more money than ever on arms. How bad is it? So bad that according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) , which produced the report, increasing orders of weapons...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 12:21 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Will a Patent on This Wonder-Food Save Lives?

When it comes to Plumpy'nut, opinions diverge on whether it's a complex wonder-food or basically just a glorified kind of Nutella. But there's no arguing over its curative properties: the peanut-laden concoction has saved thousands of lives...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 10:17 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What Sustainable Food in the Developing World Looks Like

A man in a kerchief plucks tomatoes off the vine in the basement of an abandoned Tokyo bank. In another image, he's bent ankle-deep in a paddy field — indoors — tending to muddy green shoots under ceiling lights. And no, these scenes weren't staged...

Published Mon, Apr 12 2010 12:16 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

In Haiti's Tent Cities, Unusual Schools Thrive

When you think of education, you might not think "tent city." Still, though, as Haiti's formal education system struggles to get off the ground, educators can learn a few tips from some unlikely role models: the temporary schools erected...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2010 6:48 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Urban Slums: A Millennium Development Success?

When the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000, the urban slum population was 767 million. Today, it's estimated that this figure has increased in absolute terms to 828 million in the last decade. My laptop calculator tells me this is...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2010 8:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How to Help Developing World Entrepreneurs

If you’re a private business in a poor country, where do you go to find the financing to get off the ground? Not to development agencies, which for years have withheld funding from private sector development. Governments and aid agencies believe they...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 7:39 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Haitian Hospital Left Standing

Tracy Kidder dropped a staggering statistic about Haiti this week. In a small country the size of Maryland, even before the earthquake, at least 10,000 private organizations were already on humanitarian missions in Haiti. And yet Kidder, who chronicled...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 8:57 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

What if Haiti's Earthquake Hit the U.S.?

A thought exercise. Now that a month has passed since the Jan. 12 earthquake shook Haiti, as agencies continue to assess the disaster's toll, it's worth considering: What would it look like if Haiti's 7.0 quake had hit the United States instead...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 8:33 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Climate Change Fuels Growth of Dengue Fever — Spreading to Florida Now!

A global rise in temperature of only four degrees would double the speed at which dengue fever develops in mosquitoes. Climate change is equipping mosquitoes with deadly diseases even quicker than before, explained NBC . It already infects 50 million...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 11:18 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The Situation in Darfur Deteriorates

If anyone was under any illusion that Darfur was more or less resolved or could simply be “managed,” recent developments there should be an abrupt wake-up call. A tense situation that continues to unfold in Kalma camp – one of the region’s largest with...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 3:23 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Porn Vs. Politics as Usual

Elected officials worldwide, and especially in the U.S., are notorious for being overly distracted, aloof and absentminded during routine and even special legislative sessions. In other words, they apparently believe that there's better things to...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 7:47 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Global Peacebuilding Debate In the United Nations: A Call to Action

The World Report on the Culture of Peace was recently submitted to the United Nation's Secretary General, highlighting the inspiring and pragmatic work of over 1,000 peace organizations globally. I am proud to say that a site I founded, One World...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 10:31 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

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