Pneumonia Kills More Children than AIDS, Malaria and TB Combined
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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 [...]
Non-communicable diseases are the global health cause of the moment. Apparently, they’re on the rise, but what I suspect is they’ve always been there and it’s actually the attention being paid to them that’s on the rise. Enough people are saying loudly enough that it’s no longer fair to have a Global Fund to Fight [...]
When Najima fell ill with tuberculosis, her husband sold 25 buffalo – his entire wealth – to pay for her health care. The treatment failed because Najima’s tuberculosis strain was resistant to the first-line drugs. Having nothing left in their village, the family moved to the city, where they heard free health care could be [...]
Crossing the street was the scariest thing I encountered on my first trip to India. Before I learned to weave with the traffic and dodge motorbikes and auto rickshaws, I hired a rickshaw to drive me to the other side of a road. People complain about Boston drivers, but at least they tend to stop [...]
