Global Health

Meet India’s "Lepers," Who Don't Even Have the Disease

Last week, I wrote a post about a curable disease that goes untreated due to social stigma. Those kinds of diseases are everywhere -- as in India, where the Global Post reports that an entire generation of young people is growing up sequestered in leper...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 12:46 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

A $2.2 Trillion Global Health Disaster

Here's a vision: in the future, the world's 3,000 biggest firms suddenly suffer a $ 2.2 trillion loss, forcing fully one-third of their profits to evaporate. This image of financial apocalypse is brought to you by none other than the United Nations...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 8:44 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

3 Reasons to Make Global Health a Social Justice Issue

Let's face it: notions of social justice are often absent in global health debates. Other frames -- global health as " foreign policy " or as " economic investment ," for example -- have far more powerful champions and advocates...

Published Sat, Feb 20 2010 1:28 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Angelina and Bono: Changing the World, One Celebrity at a Time

I'm not a fan of celebrity hype. I didn't watch the Grammies, I don't read entertainment gossip and I certainly don't keep track of who's dating whom. Still, though, when celebrities discuss humanitarian issues, even my ears perk up...

Published Sat, Feb 20 2010 6:37 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

How to Stop Stillbirths? Teach People How

How do you reduce the number of stillbirths in the developing world? This isn't a trick question. As it turns out, the answer happens to be fairly intuitive: you train health workers to stop them. That's the conclusion of a study published in...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 2:30 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

How Grassroots Activism in Uganda is Fighting HIV/AIDS

Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service , is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. I just returned from an extraordinary 10 days in Uganda and Kenya, where I joined a group of...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 10:44 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Rwanda Says No to Condoms in Prison

Rwanda would really like to fight HIV/AIDS in prison -- but not if doing so breaks the law. It sounds like a bizarre statement, and it is. But by continuing to deny prisoners condoms, that's what prison officials are effectively arguing. Across the...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 8:29 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

A $21 Billion Foreign Aid Gap

A gang of deadbeats. Okay, the latest report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development isn't titled anything quite so blunt, but the bottom line's about the same. In recent years, the OECD finds that the world's richest...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 2:15 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

WHO to Health Workers in Haiti: Please Don't Leave

In the aftermath of the devastating Jan. 12 quake, some 1,000 physicians descended on Haiti. They were joined by representatives from a whopping 396 national and international organizations, all working to secure survivors' health amid the rubble...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 12:17 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Will U.S. Trade Policy Continue to Support Haiti?

" Despite Years of Crushing Poverty, Hope Grows in Haiti ." In a grim kind of irony, that was the headline that PBS Newshour broadcast on Jan. 11. It was just one day before the 7.0 earthquake devastated the country, killing 230,000 and inflicting...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 9:57 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Fighting Bad Ideas About Male Circumcision

Let's be clear: There is no vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS. Furthermore, when you engage in risky behavior -- whether it's sexual intercourse or injection drug use -- there is no foolproof way to completely prevent the risk of transmission. I don't...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 7:02 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

In Haiti and Don't Know Creole? Here's a Way to Diagnose

It might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you're confronted with a picture of a U.S. doctor tenderly cradling the head of, say, a burn victim in Haiti. Still, though, at some point you have to wonder: as countless overseas doctors and...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 2:45 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

How Poor Women Will End Global Poverty

As CARE USA's Helene Gayle wrote over the weekend, the centuries-old debate surrounding how to eradicate global poverty finally has one clear, compelling solution: focus on women. Increasingly, the UN, NGOs and even some governments are increasingly...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 11:26 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Preventing a Second Silent Tsunami in Haiti

In 2008, even before the quake, Haiti underwent what the UN called a "silent tsunami." The tsunami killed at least six people, including a U.N. soldier, and injured dozens more. But unlike the earthquake, that particular crisis was no natural...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 9:54 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

These Clothes Can Actually Help Haiti

Following the apparently modern axiom that there is no crisis so deep that it can't also be made fashionable, an abundance of earthquake-themed T-shirts are now being sold. There's the "To Haiti, With Love" shirt, which retails for Read...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 7:19 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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