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Category: Health
There are 45 entries in this category.
Sep 07, 2007
Sex and Risk a Question of Location
The results from a recent Durex Global Sex Survey show no relationship between either gender, sexual orientation or marital status and how likely a person is to engage in unprotected sex with a casual partner.
Jul 27, 2007
An Outbreak of Truth About AIDS in Africa
A new generation of intelligent, well-informed literature about the AIDS epidemic in Africa is trumpeting the need to better “know your epidemic.”
Jul 06, 2007
In Global Health, Money Isn’t the Problem
A recent Economist article argues that there is more than enough money earmarked for world health initiatives, but that the available funds are not being dispersed.
Jun 27, 2007
The Challenges, and Opportunity, of Rapid Testing
In HIV/AIDS circles a false positive is a preferable evil to a false negative (which denies a patient treatment and creates the possibility that he or she will unknowingly spread the virus), but they still aren’t good, especially given the high stigma associated with the disease.
Jun 06, 2007
The Slum Opportunity
Despite their horrors, in slums there are jobs, access to markets, more developed roads and water systems and other civic infrastructure. And opportunity for the poor and donors alike.
May 30, 2007
Cheap Instead of Free: Lessons in Effective Aid
In an attempt to curtail the phenomenon in aid circles in which materials distributed for free are thrown away or never used, some groups are experimenting with making the poor pay for certain interventions, such as bed nets. The goal is to determine whether payment will increase use.
Apr 17, 2007
Malaria-Free Zones to Malaria-Free World
A Ghanian economist is setting up malaria-free zones in various countries in Africa in an attempt to stop the disease one town at a time.
Apr 02, 2007
One Thing Leads to Another, in AIDS Treatment Too
If there is a core truism to aid work it might be that all things are connected.
Mar 28, 2007
TB Rates Decline, But XDR-TB Lurks in the Wings
The World Health Organization has announced that worldwide tuberculosis cases as a percentage of the population held steady in 2006. Yet more cases of tuberculosis are identified as extensively drug-resistent (XDR-TB).
Mar 07, 2007
The Danger of Denial
An article in the March 12 edition of The New Yorker provides an overview of AIDS denial, and how it has influenced AIDS treatment practices in South Africa.