August 27, 2010 | 9:24 AM | By Tom Paulson
Global Health is More than Health
FILED UNDER: Basics, Health, Justice, Haiti, Partners in Health, social justice
Here’s a good description, in an interview with one of the program leaders of Partners in Health’s Haiti program, about why improving “global health” must include social, economic and human rights issues:
Good Health Means Justice and Rights: Huff Po interview with Loune Viaud.
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Highest levels ever of drug-resistant TB found, in Europe
People are always surprised by this one basic fact about tuberculosis: One out of every three people on the planet are currently infected with this airborne bacterium. That’s why the problem of increasing outbreaks of drug-resistant strains of TB is … Read More
- Study: Malaria death toll nearly twice the official count, kills many adults
- How Jimmy Carter became a serpent slayer and global health pioneer
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Land grab: Ethiopia boots 70,000; Brits displace 20,000 in Uganda
Aid organizations are trying to call attention to a little-noticed but massive plague spreading across Africa that is destroying communities, throwing many deeper into poverty and perhaps causing the deaths of many thousands. Not AIDS or malaria. It’s an outbreak … Read More
- Martin Luther King Jr explains why you should care
- More Fighting Over (the meaning and purpose of) Philanthropy
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Map of NGOs in Haiti
The organization Interaction, an alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), has worked with a number of other groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to create a detailed interactive map of NGOs in Haiti (go to link, below is … Read More
- A few (sour) views on the NYT's celebration of Sean Penn, Haiti relief worker
- Disaster in Japan ... and Haiti, Pakistan, Congo, Ivory Coast, Niger, Mali


