Global Health

Cancer is the New Malaria (How Can We Make Infrastructure Sexy?)

Ashton Kutcher battled CNN to be the first to get one million Twitter followers. He won, and bought 10,000 mosquito nets for Malaria No More as a victory prize. Colin Powell, Warren Buffet and Robin Williams have lent their stunning visages to Smile Train...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 1:46 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

On Misguided Faith in Haiti

Talk of God infused much of the immediate post-earthquake commentary on Haiti, from Pat Robertson's foul claims about the disaster's origin to moving descriptions of how Haitians' faith remained upright , even in the rubble. Now, the latest...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 8:40 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Can the "ShangRing" Make Circumcision More Attractive?

First the folding umbrella, then gunpowder, porcelain and movable type. And now from the annals of Chinese invention comes the latest entrant -- the male circumcision device. Dubbed the " ShangRing ," it's a set of plastic rings that grabs...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 9:42 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

In Haiti, One Month On

Tarps and toilets, shelter and sanitation. I don't know how intentional Reuters AlertNet is being in its alliteration here, but as a quick summation of the immediate challenges Haiti faces, the phrases seem pretty apt. Now that it's been month...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 1:22 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Next Generation of Terrorists Attacking Sources of Power, Not People

Welcome to the next generation of terrorism. You and your family are in luck, because when it becomes dominant, you'll be less likely to be the victim of a terrorist attack. In a strange synergy between 9/11 and Somali pirates, a tanker owned by a...

Published Tue, Aug 10 2010 8:21 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

The Catholic Church and Their Countdown to Zero Nuclear Weapons

At the 65 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon became the first Secretary to attend an official memorial service in Japan, speaking about the urgency to “free [the world] of weapons of mass...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 3:45 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

The Best Way to End Poverty: Empower Women

Helene Gayle is part of Change.org's Changemaker network, comprised of leading voices for social change. In an interview with Change.org, Ms. Gayle explains what makes her passionate, and what causes she most supports. Change.org: What cause or causes...

Published Sat, Feb 13 2010 9:21 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

For Sale: Lethal Malaria Drugs

Imagine that you head up a nonprofit working in Madagascar, Senegal or Uganda. You've got a great mission statement, an enthusiastic set of donors, and you're making great strides in fighting malaria on the ground. In your last year, you managed...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2010 9:49 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Water Lessons in Haiti

As efforts in Haiti turn from relief to recovery, Change.org sits down to talk with Karl Hofmann, President and CEO of Population Services International (PSI). A global health organization that works to harness market-driven solutions in the fight to...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 9:34 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Haiti, History and Debt

As has been well-remarked upon over the past week, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. (A quick news search from the past week pulls up 690 hits for the phrase.) But at Richard Kim writes eloquently in the Nation , to end the story...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 7:12 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Everybody's a Winner With Free Rice

Calling all online gamers, whiz-kids and humanitarians! Want to exercise your brain and feed the hungry, all with a simple click? I recently discovered my newest procrastination technique on the website Free Rice . Part online game, part IQ test and part...

Published Thu, Apr 01 2010 6:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Beer Makes People More Attractive...

...to mosquitoes. That's the finding of a new study that helps explain why mosquitoes seem so much more attracted to some people than others. Researchers -- who focused on a malaria-endemic area of Burkina Faso -- found that volunteers who'd drank...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 1:41 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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

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

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