For the first time, the World Health Statistics compares the state of child health from the years 2000 and 2010, showing how global public health advancements have helped save children’s lives in the…
May 17 2012 / Read More »
A striking article published in The Lancet in April 2010 concluded that when governments receive international aid for healthcare projects, their own spending gets “crowded out”, or displaced. That is, when $1 of money gets delivered from…
May 16 2012 / Read More »
Operation ASHA is a community based nonprofit founded in the Delhi slums to fight the spread of antibiotic resistant TB. A key way they do this is by incentivizing counselors to…
May 15 2012 / Read More »
Back in 2001, a major ruling took place at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to increase access–at least theoretically–to generic pharmaceuticals for patients in poor countries. The WTO signed a pact known as “The Doha Declaration“,…
May 9 2012 / Read More »
Read the original here: In search of reluctant innovators…
May 8 2012 / Read More »
“Let go and let God.” It’s a mantra of the self-help group, Alcoholics Anonymous. After attending three conferences related to international aid in the last week, I’m wondering if it’s time for us…
May 7 2012 / Read More »
Read the articles In the editorials of this special theme issue on e-health, Najeeb Al-Shorbaji & Antoine Geissbuhler (322) discuss how to establish an evidence base for e-health, while JEWC van Gemert-Pijnen et al.…
May 1 2012 / Read More »
Health expenditure in lower- to middle-income countries tends to grow at a faster rate than GDP, according to a new paper from USAID. Lack of proper policies can likely lead to an…
Apr 30 2012 / Read More »
African stereotypes were all the rage on the interweb last week: ‘Africa’s image in the West, and Africa’s image to itself, are often crude, childish drawings of reality’ argues Binyavanga Wainaina. Others think…
Apr 30 2012 / Read More »
In my recent fieldwork with girls involved in intergenerational prostitution (prostituted by their husbands and in-laws), I have found it very difficult to find the answers I am looking for. Are these girls…
Apr 29 2012 / Read More »
65th #WHO #WorldHealthAssembly | 21–26 May 2012 »
Follow next week’s @WHO #WorldHealthAssembly via #WHA65. Time for #action on #NCDs! Sixty-fifth World Health…
May 17 2012 / Read More »Do TOMS Shoes actually help the poor? »
It’s not at all clear, Mother Jones reports, and many experts are concerned about the lack of accountability in…
May 20 2012 / Read More »Stanford attack of UW/Seattle study on global health funding itself under… »
Okay, this is a bit convoluted but see if you can follow. The gist here is about how best…
May 19 2012 / Read More »An Over the Counter HIV Test Clears Important Regulatory Hurdle »
Tuesday, May 15 2012, in a unanimous 17-0 decision, experts on the Blood Products Advisory Committee recommended to the…
May 19 2012 / Read More »Neglecting Trauma in the Developing World: More advocates needed »
In this PBS NewsHour feature, see Dr. Richard Coughlin of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) discuss…
May 19 2012 / Read More »
