Philanthropy Action

Sep 20, 2007

Environmentally-Friendly Projects Can Make for Good Development

Currently the bulk of the burden of environmental degradation is felt by people living in poverty, with negative impacts on economic development and health alike.

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.

Sep 06, 2007

Making Your Contribution

Difficult as it may be to believe, people living in top income brackets also worry about money: that they don’t have enough to sustain their lifestyles or to leave to their kids.

Aug 31, 2007

Revisiting Socially Responsible Investing

Activist investing might be far more productive as a strategy for bringing about change than boycotting, because as investors they want the company to make a profit and are realistic about how the company can best do that; but as activists they do not want the profit to come at the expense of others.

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 23, 2007

Local Knowledge is Key; Here Too

A case of failure to seek local knowledge was recently highlighted in a New York Times article describing the current conflict between US-based advocacy groups and local aid workers in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Jul 18, 2007

Celebrities, Influence, and Listening to Africans

The challenge for anyone looking to make a measurable difference is that the dynamics that help and harm in each country are so diverse. It is legitimately difficult to know who to listen to, because equally informed, stake-holding Africans have conflicting ideas about what will work in their respective countries or communities.

Jul 16, 2007

Simple Can Be Best

Much good can come from introducing new technologies into developing communities, but often the best of development comes when existing resources are put to mindful use.

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.

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