NTDS Take the Stage at the Social Good Summit
; ; “We have a wonderful public-private partnership with the pharmaceutical industry who are donating all the drugs, and we have great technical experts that actually help to ensure that these drugs...
View ArticleBill Gates: Heres My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help | Wired...
Bill Gates: Heres My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help | Wired Business | Wired.com. Bill Gates talks about why he started The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and why he chose to...
View ArticleHow You Contributed to the Movement against NTDs in 2013 – and How We Can Do...
; As 2013 comes to a close, we have reason to celebrate. END7 supporters helped treat entire communities of people suffering from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Honduras, Myanmar, and Kenya,...
View ArticleGuardian Global Development made a list, but didn’t check it twice
When the Guardian published their list of global development Twitter All Stars to watch in 2014, the reverberation of #facepalms across the global north and south exposed the glaring holes of its...
View ArticleFeeling Optimistic on the 2nd Anniversary of the London Declaration for NTDs
; Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) – the largest coordinated effort against NTDs to date. Since its launch, governments across the...
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Scrambling for Africa – an Interview with Johanna Tayloe Crane
Johanna Tayloe Crane has a PhD in medical anthropology and is an assistant professor at the University of Washington-Bothell. Her research has examined urban health in HIV in the US as well as global...
View ArticleNew Support for NTDs to Drive Progress Forward
; This afternoon, global health leaders convened in Paris to discuss progress made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The event, titled Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical...
View ArticleWHO calls for access to drugs for hepatitis C
New guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C worldwide strengthens the arm of campaigners who want pharmaceutical companies to slash the prices of new drugs that can cure most...
View ArticleHealth Care Workforce Shortage=Failure to Meet MDGs
; Did you know 83 countries do not have enough health workers to meet the World Health Organization’s minimum standard to provide basic health services (No Health Without a Workforce, 2013)? The...
View ArticleNew and better drugs for MDR-TB on the horizon
A phase III trial of a novel combination of drugs for tuberculosis, including some drug-resistant strains, will launch within the year, the TB Alliance announcedA big new trial of a novel drug...
View ArticleTime to target the shocking neglect of stillbirths
Minnie Driver stars in a new film, Return to Zero, about a couple who suffer a stillbirth, said to be the first feature film on the subject. In rich and poor countries alike, stillbirths are airbrushed...
View ArticleLwL: A Life Worth Living
; This post was originally published on the Aspen Idea Blog. What makes a life worth living? For many of us, it’s our relationships with our families and loved ones, the ability to follow our...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Cash – NYTimes.com
Let Them Eat Cash – NYTimes.com A nice editorial from Chris Blattman building off of arguments he also made within Foreign Affairs about the utility of cash transfers as aid (the NYT piece is...
View ArticleReflections on two days in a ‘media silo’
I’m sitting in the old German parliament building listening to a plenary discussion on activism. It’s my second day at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, and I’m in Bonn to help mentor Ashoka...
View ArticleWhen the Right to Health Becomes a Battle for Recognition & Dignity
; The following post is an opinion piece from Jeanne Chauffour, a student at the University of Chicago* Health is a human right. This phrase is clearly stated in Article 25 of the Universal...
View ArticleIn global development, is the pen mightier than the sword?
I’m reading two books in parallel right now – Ben Ramalingam‘s ‘Aid on the Edge of Chaos‘ and Kentaro Toyama‘s ‘Geek Heresy‘. With both books I’m finding myself regularly pausing for a nod of approval...
View ArticleIs ‘fixing development’ the real Grand Challenge for Development?
“Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives” – Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I’ve got an idea for a...
View ArticleGlobal development R&D: Maintaining a balance
My first brush with technology-for-development, almost twenty years ago, wasn’t on the potential of the Internet, or how mobile phones were going to change, well, everything. To be honest, neither were...
View ArticleWhat Gets Measured Gets Counted
A man is disfigured and shunned by his community. A child is too tired and sick to go to school. A woman is blinded by an infection. These are just some of the effects of neglected tropical diseases...
View ArticleThe Global NGO Deworming Inventory: Taking Stock of Progress against NTDs
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 873 million children are at risk of soil-transmitted helminths (STH), including roundworm, hookworm and whipworm. In children, STH...
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