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By Kaiser GH Update
“There should be #NoControversy about a woman’s right to plan when and how many children to have, to have the opportunity to improve her own health and that of her children, to educate her children and to grow her family’s economic productivity,” Gary Darmstadt, head of the family health division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Wendy Prosser, a research analyst with the family health division, write in this post in the foundation’s “Impatient Optimists” blog. The authors highlight a recent TEDxChange talk by Melinda Gates, co-chair of the foundation, in which “she addresses the issues surrounding birth control and how it is literally life-saving for millions of women and children around the world.” They continue, “But of course, any time politics, religion, and sex are intertwined, controversy tends to emerge,” and discuss several viewpoints that have emerged in media coverage of the issue (5/14).
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Kaiser's Global Health Update,Politics | Read More »
By WhyDev.org
An article this week in the Times of Swaziland – “Corporal punishment to be phased out soon” – first filled me with encouragement regarding the progress Swaziland has made in its development issues in comparison to other countries. Then it whisked me down memory lane, making a pit stop at one of the mini crises I had dealt with in Ghana as Project Coordinator for an international volunteer organisation. It was the classic nightmare case: a 19-year-old boy from higher income country (HIC)-X imposed his beliefs and culture on another’s after two weeks on his project.Even with several hours of rigorous discussion courses specifically implemented to prevent circumstances such as this, he managed to do exactly what we instructed him to refrain from doing.Our organization placed him in a teaching assistant role with a primary school. This school, along with nearly every other primary school in Ghana, uses corporal punishment as its principal form of discipline.
May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Aid,HIV/AIDS,Hub Selects,Human Rights,MDGs,Mental Health,Microfinance,Politics,Technology,Uncategorized | Read More »
By WhyDev.org
Women Deliver recently came out with their annual “Women Deliver 50” list of inspiring ideas and solutions put forward by women and girls. The women and groups celebrated in the list cover a broad range of topics and programs, from midwives in Ethiopia to advocating for women’s voices in Libya.One that sparked my interest was “Africans feeding Africa” by Backpack Farm, which is a social enterprise that hosts trainings for small-scale farmers in East Africa and sells them green agriculture technologies and supplies– all in a backpack.I caught the founder, Rachel Zedeck, in the middle of the busy planting season in Kenya, but she managed to spare some time to tell me about their program and some of the challenges in pursuing the social enterprise model.Tanya Cothran: Where does your funding come from? What drew you to the commercial model as opposed to the donor-funded aid model?Rachel Zedek: I used my life savings to build the company, which is a registered LTD (limited company) in Kenya. In retrospect I think I was naïve.
May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Aid,Human Rights,MDGs,Mental Health,Microfinance,Politics,Technology,Uncategorized | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) — a new plan to help speed drug development by making abandoned experimental drugs available to researchers who can look for alternative uses — “is an indication that the Obama administration and the medical research enterprise are thinking out of the box,” Michael Manganiello, a partner at HCM Strategists, writes in a Huffington Post “Politics Blog” opinion piece. Manganiello — who says the drug AZT, which originally was developed to treat cancer, helped him live long enough to reap the benefits of new drugs developed in the mid-1990s to treat HIV infection — joined HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and NIH Director Francis Collins this week in launching the initiative, which he says “is a step in the right direction and it is critical that industry collaborate with patient groups and their constituents.”
May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Cancer,Kaiser's Global Health Update,Politics | Read More »
By Sanjay Basu
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“, indicating that intellectual property rights (patents) should not stand in the way of public health; that is, expensive brand-name drugs that were [...]
May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Featured Content,Hub Full-Length Features,Hub Selects,Politics | Read More »
By Humanosphere
By Jaclyn Schiff, special correspondent Originally posted at Devex, where it is available for free after registration —————————————————————————————————————————————— Twenty-twelve marks an important year for the Global Health Council — 40 years since it was founded. But instead of celebrating that milestone, GHC will shut its doors in the coming months and forgo its annual conference for … Continue reading →
May 7th, 2012 | Posted in Aid & Development,Hub Selects,Humanosphere,Politics | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
Original post: NGOs Welcome Announcement Of U.S., North Korean Nuclear Arms Agreement That…
March 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Kaiser's Global Health Update,Politics | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
Read the original: Blog Examines Use Of Medicine As Weapon Of War
February 29th, 2012 | Posted in Kaiser's Global Health Update,Politics | Read More »
By GHC
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February 10th, 2012 | Posted in #GHDjob,Politics | Read More »
By Humanosphere
In 2010, Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim used Facebook to coordinate a protest of the torture and killing of a man by dictatorial President Hosni Mubarak’s security police. It was the beginning of a revolution, the explosion of the Arab Spring movement in Egypt — a popular revolt which forced Mubarak out of office but … Continue reading →
February 8th, 2012 | Posted in Humanosphere,Politics | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
This post in the Ministerial Leadership Initiative’s (MLI) “Leading Global Health” blog “is the fourth of a series of perspective pieces on country ownership from the ‘Advancing Country Ownership for Greater Results’ roundtable organized recently by MLI, a program of Aspen Global Health and Development.” “This fourth piece covers the comments made by several senior U.S. government officials,” including Ariel Pablos-Méndez, USAID assistant administrator; Katherine “Kemy” Monahan, deputy executive director of the Global Health Initiative (GHI); and Amie Batson, USAID deputy assistant administrator for global health (Donnelly, 1/20).
January 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Kaiser's Global Health Update,Policy & Systems,Politics | Read More »
By ScienceSpeaks
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) joined with the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) last week to discuss the department’s first ever global health strategy, outlined in a new report. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the department’s burgeoning commitment to asserting its role in improving the health and well-being of people around the ( Read more…
January 14th, 2012 | Posted in Hub Selects,Policy & Systems,Politics | Read More »
By Humanosphere
John Donnelly, at GlobalPost, explores the Obama Administration’s goal of getting poor countries to take more ‘ownership’ of their health improvement programs. Sounds good, but what’s that really mean and how is it accomplished?
January 14th, 2012 | Posted in Hub Selects,Humanosphere,Policy & Systems,Politics | Read More »
By Humanosphere
Many of us depend upon the New York Times’ Nick Kristof’s compelling and heartfelt columns to gain perspective on the many forms of inequity and tragedy experienced by the poor and disenfranchised around the world. But some feel Kristof tends to over-simplify, or even caricaturize, these people and their problems. Here’s one such (extensive) view … Continue reading →
December 8th, 2011 | Posted in Humanosphere,Politics | Read More »
