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Invisible Children: Saviors or Sensationalists?
UPDATE: This was a really popular post this week with some interesting comments from readers. I thought people would enjoy the repost. Please weigh in with your thoughts. As I write, it looks like the...
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UN Conference on Trade and Development Launches in Doha
I am in Doha this week for the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Disclosure: UNCTAD’s PR firm covered airfare and lodging to allow me to participate in this conference. Doha, Qatar - UNCTAD,...
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UNCTAD XIII and Lawmaking
Doha, Qatar - I just came out of the UNCTAD Interagency Cluster Meeting on Trade and Productive Capacity. Toward the end of the session, the representative from UNCITRAL mentioned that development is...
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Malaria: Still Deadly
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that a disease we’ve been fighting as long as malaria is still serious. Malaria sounds like it should have vanished with the British Raj. But it hasn’t. On World Malaria...
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Home Testing for HIV – Not a Game Changer Just Yet
The US food and drug administration has approved an over-the-counter test for HIV. You can buy it in a drugstore, take it home, swab your cheek, and know if you’re HIV positive in the next 40 minutes....
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World Tuberculosis Report 2012 – Some Progress, Not Enough
The World Health Organization released the new 2012 World TB report today. There is a lot of interesting data to be found, but it summarizes easily: We’re making progress against Tuberculosis, but not...
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With Obama’s Re-election, “Global Health Diplomacy” Will Get Its First Test
President Obama’s re-election means that several recent international development initiatives from his administration suddenly have four more years bear fruit. These include the Feed the Future effort...
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Can we end AIDS?
Global poverty advocacy group ONE released a new report on AIDS this week. They start the report with the bold statement that “a new sense of optimism is beginning to take hold across the international...
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HIV is the Future of Global Health
As epidemics go, HIV is ideally suited to engage people’s attention. It affects people in poor countries, and in rich countries. It’s deadly if untreated. It’s infectious. It’s made worse by poverty...
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3 Reasons Why You Will Soon Feel the Pain From Global Biodiversity Loss
One of the biggest factors in our future is the extremely rapid global loss of biodiversity. We are losing plants and animals to extinction at unprecedented rates. We’re living through a mass...
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