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Category: Health

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Oct 24, 2007

Misperception Breeds Misallocation

The New York Times recently reported on a study in which people were asked about the most common global causes of death in children under five. Respondents named AIDS and Malaria as the top two, yet the reality is that birth complications, respiratory illness and diarrheal disease are the real offenders.

Oct 01, 2007

Water: Our Greatest Decadence

UNESCO claims that annual funding for the millennium development goal of halving the number of people around the world who lack access to safe drinking water is short by at least $10 billion. Now imagine if we could decrease our bottled water consumption by two-thirds and use the money to bring safe drinking water to the water-scarce regions?

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.

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