Global Health

After 70 Years We Continue to Struggle To Make Aid Work

The Millennium Development Goals of 2005 identified international development goals essential to reducing extreme poverty. Amongst them: sprayed nets to deal with Malaria, more vitamin A, and stressing the importance of contour terracing to address soil...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 3:06 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Every Mecca Pilgrim Will Be Vaccinated Against Polio

Rumors that the polio vaccine is a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls has allowed the viral disease to persist, and it remains endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and regions of Nigeria and India. During the pilgrimage to Mecca this November, Saudi...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 12:38 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Smoking Bans Help West As Big Tobacco Eyes Developing World

Smoking bans in public places across Europe have proved surprisingly successful two reports conclude , helping to cut heart-attack numbers by almost a third. Tens of thousands of lives are being saved, but it's not such good news for the developing...

Published Mon, Sep 28 2009 7:28 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Working To Decrease Child Mortality in the Philippines

When you see news that says " child mortality down by two-thirds, but a long way to go " it's hard to relate. It's an abstract piece of great news, but it's hard to appreciate what's been done, and what's still to be done...

Published Sun, Sep 27 2009 4:50 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

China Begins Swine Flu Vaccinations, Denies Restricting Pork Imports

At the start of the week China began vaccinating its population against swine flu, hoping to inoculate 65 million by the year's end — prioritizing border guards, transit workers, the military and police. Funny that similarly strategies in the U.K...

Published Fri, Sep 25 2009 8:05 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

AIDS Vaccine's Partial Success Encourages Scientists

An AIDS vaccine has been tested, and it simply can't be called an unqualified success, nor even a breakthrough. But the progress is encouraging. A Thai trial is delighting and puzzling scientists. One of the backers explained , “if you have a product...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2009 3:26 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

U.S To Finally End HIV Immigration Ban

An official memo explains that immigration officials in the U.S will soon no longer be able to deny HIV positive immigrants "if the only ground of inadmissability is that the applicant has been diagnosed with HIV infection." Testing for HIV...

Published Wed, Sep 23 2009 11:12 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Genius Grants Winners Tackle Infectious Diseases, Child Health

Given five years and half a million dollars, how would you effect a change to global health? It's not all about the money of course, but wow — it can certainly help. The MacArthur Genius Grants have been announced for the year: 24 people who will...

Published Tue, Sep 22 2009 1:14 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Egypt's Swine Flu Fear and Pig Slaughter Proves Costly

Egypt's completely unnecessary cull of hundreds of thousands of pigs in reaction to swine flu (they thought it came from pigs) has come back to bite them, causing a health problem of another kind. Egyptian leaders may not have appreciated the importance...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2009 12:32 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Doctors Demand Climate Action To Prevent Biggest Global Health Threat

Doctors are repeating calls that climate change is likely to represent "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century" in the run up to a big UN conference in Copenhagen in December. Leaders will be hoping draw up a new treaty to replace...

Published Sun, Sep 20 2009 11:38 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Airline Tax To Fund Global Health Projects

A tax on airline tickets will soon help fight HIV/Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis in Africa. We initially heard about the scheme earlier this year when Bill Clinton put his weight behind the plan. Now the scheme that'll ask for a voluntary contribution...

Published Fri, Sep 18 2009 9:01 AM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

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