Global Health

Cancer Schmancer: Why Early Detection is the Key

Fran Drescher is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Change.org asked Ms. Drescher to respond to questions to provide context for her work and the causes she supports. Change.org: What cause or...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 6:41 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Haiti Rocked By Massive Earthquake

A catastrophic 7.0 earthquake has rocked the country of Haiti , striking 10 miles west of the country's capital, Port-au-Prince. Official casualty reports are still hours (maybe days) away, but by all accounts the earthquake has leveled one of the...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 9:24 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Can Hybrid Fundraising Save 11 Million Children a Year?

Can hybrid money-raising efforts by non-profits, foundations and governments help save the 11 million children under the age of 5 who die every year due to malnutrition and preventable disease? With increasingly imaginative fund raising efforts, the Economist...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 9:34 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Clinton Announces Development Will Be Central Pillar of Foreign Policy

In a high profile speech delivered yesterday, Hilary Clinton explained that development would be elevated to be a 'Central Pillar' of U.S. foreign policy. With the Obama administration not making its foreign policy thinking clear, it's unclear...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 12:33 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

China Rehabilitates Drug Users Through Beatings and Labor Camps

China has a problem with drugs. And I don't see their neighbours Pakistan, Burma, and North Korea leading an intervention to help them. Human Rights Watch explain that Chinese authorities are denying drug addicts the help they need. Instead, they're...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 9:39 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Five Success Stories in Global Health from 2009

We've had a lot of reasons to be optimistic about Global Health in 2009. There are still millions dying needlessly around the world, but it's important to remark on programs that are working, and build on schemes that give us reason to be optimistic...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 10:10 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Smoking Epidemic in Africa Could Contribute to 8 Million Worldwide Deaths

There are is no epidemic more easily preventable than smoking. And as it already kills 5.6 million people a year, especially hitting sub-Saharan Africa, now is the time to make a new years resolution to better monitor the threat and alert countries to...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 9:12 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Remembering the Tsunami Five Years On, And Creating Solutions for the Future

Five years ago, the second largest earthquake ever recorded, and a subsequent tsunami, hit the Indian Ocean killing more than 220,000 people. The world came together in the days following Christmas in 2004 and rallied to provide $7 billion in aid. Now...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 1:07 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

How Smallpox Eradication Led to a Tragedy: Interview with Laurie Garrett

This is Part II of an interview with Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Garrett has written widely — and passionately — about the importance of health systems development...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 8:59 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

Interview with Laurie Garrett on Status of H1N1; Obama's Global Health Plans

What has the power to change the health landscape around the world? HIV medication? Bed-nets to prevent children from getting malaria? Vaccines for diseases, like rotavirus or polio, which have long vanished from the public health landscape in the developed...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 9:44 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

H1N1 Likely to Rank as Mildest Pandemic Ever

Though they continue to advocate that everyone be vaccinated, and warn that the spread of flu remains entirely unpredictable, experts explain that things may not get as bad as first suspected. Leading epidemiologists explain that H1N1 Swine Flu could...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 7:38 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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