In this video, Alex Briscoe, Alameda County Health Services Director, discusses the link between health and wealth in San Francisco’s Bay Area. Providing economic opportunities and giving hope for a bright future to young people of color in remain essential to reduce or eliminate racial disparities. Alameda County created the EMS Corps to provide youth [...]
Venues for professional public health exchange have traditionally included academic conferences and published literature. Until recently, few alternatives existed to gather researchers and implementers for meaningful and timely knowledge exchange. At the cross section of public health and health delivery, this need for a web-based, no-fee forum is paramount. Using online communities to promote health [...]
On April 4, one of the largest forceful slum evictions in Bangladesh’s history took place in Dhaka’s Korail bustee. Households and shops within twenty meters of the road were bulldozed, with approximately 2,000 structures affected. Homes lay in complete ruin, while those who could salvage some of their belongings camped on the local field or the road itself.
This is a simple video but an effective communication vehicle. It emphasizes the magnitude of the problem, and the simplicity of the solutions: vaccines and antibiotics; clean air to breathe, and good nutrition.
The Global Health Blog’s readership has increased since launching in January, but like many blogs we don’t have a good sense of our readership. Several excellent bloggers have created a survey learn more about their readers. It would be great if you could take a few minutes to fill it out here.
Awareness of bipolar disorder, the condition he lives with, is low and treatment is hard to get in Uganda because the country of 30 million people has only 25 psychiatrists.
The U.S. National HIV Prevention Conference is currently going on in Atlanta. This conference theme is “The Urgency of Now: Reduce incidence. Improve access. Promote equity,” and the program relates to implementation of the federal HIV/AIDS strategy at the state and local levels. This great blog post by Dr. Ronald Valdiserri, US Deputy Assistant Secretary [...]
Stealth editing can even make polio eradication look like fun and exciting. The Gates Foundation released this new video to announce its collaboration with Club Barcelona to raise awareness about the need to “reach the goal” and eliminate polio once and for all. We’re so close, and yet so far. But this video definitely [...]
The Global Health Hub was hacked. We didn’t transform overnight into a Viagra-selling operation, but if you Google us that’s what you might think. Hopefully, we fixed the problems and are preventing similar occurrences in the future. The Global Health Hub is a shoe-string operation run by a few committed and interested people who have [...]
In this episode of Fault Lines, reporter Zeina Awad travels to India to see what the clinical research practices look like on the ground. What role are the US regulatory bodies playing in overseeing the trials? Are participants aware that they are taking part in a clinical trial? Is the testing being held up against [...]
This infographic isn’t new, but I saw it today for the first time and was blown away by its impact. This provides a more powerful argument than any I’ve heard for why we shouldn’t lump African countries into one generic reference. The nation’s within its continental boundaries are diverse, just like those superimposed here.
How can the global achievements at scaling up HIV services be sustained for the long term and also be harmonious with efforts to address other diseases? Seventeen open-access articles in the latest issue of JAIDS address those questions. The supplement confronts the real and perceived “divides” between efforts to address HIV and other diseases. In [...]
By Ailis Tweed-Kent In the last decade, millions of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have been implemented worldwide. These simple and easy-to-use tests diagnose malaria from blood samples in about 15 minutes at all levels of the health care system. While the tests have enabled better access to malaria diagnosis, many challenges still remain. In [...]
