Posted By:  BethP Posted On:  Sep 26, 2008	Ramping Up: Africa and the MDGs
It’s been a historical week in international development as leaders worldwide have ramped up discussions around meeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.  Increasingly (though not exclusively) Africa-specific concerns, the MDG conversation has generated some significant news over...... [view]

Posted By:  rezznet Posted On:  Sep 8, 2008	Igor film joins forces with Against Malaria Foundation to fight disease
Exodus Film Group, Malaria.com, and the Against Malaria Foundation today announced their partnership to help rid the world of the disease with the help of Igor, the title character in Exodus’ upcoming animated feature Igor opening nationwide on September 19 distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 14, 2008	Interesting Links of the Week - August 15, 2008
This week for me has been about returning to normalcy. The political crisis has ended and I have started a new project. These links below were great for re-inspiring me. Social Change Links of the Week Collective Lens stimulates social change through visual means by aggregating...... [view]

Posted By:  ashleylynn Posted On:  Mar 21, 2008	Spreading the Net Is More Stressful Than I Thought It Would Be...
Dear world, I am stressed. Due to student council conflicts with other programs being launched in my school, my Spread the Net Soccer Tournament is being moved up to mid-may. Now I'm panicking. Doing this alone is hard. I need to a) write out a plan. Where? Will it be at my school? We...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Mar 17, 2008	"The CIA considers HIV/AIDS to be the greatest threat, estimating that by 2020 it will be responsible for over half of all deaths from infectious disease in the developing world…"
HIV/AIDS, This Real Terror: Bahama Journal Editorial - Nassau, Bahamas: While most of us sleep, HIV/AIDS continues its deadly course throughout the world. Hardest hit is Africa, south of the Sahara Desert. Thereafter, we find the Caribbean, inclusive of Haiti and our own Bahamas. The...... [view]

Posted By:  albertomz Posted On:  Oct 17, 2007	Down at the (social) market
The IHT writes about the current wave of scepticism over social marketing , a market-inspired strategy to get the poor to start using mosquito nets by asking them to pay a minimum price for them, which the WHO’s director Dr. Arata Kochi bluntly describes as a pointless approach to...... [view]

Posted By:  scoutbanana Posted On:  May 5, 2007	malaria awareness day
April 25th , the first US Malaria Awareness Day. An award winning photographer, Chien-Chi Chang, traveled to Uganda to give image to the story that is very often never heard, to give a face to the people who are never seen. This is not just another award winning privileged person traveling...... [view]

Posted By:  scoutbanana Posted On:  Apr 18, 2007	a phamaceutical not bent on profit
Do you see it there on the horizon? Hope is dawning and the situation seems to be less grim in this radiating light. Diseases run rampant in Africa, plan and simple, there is no health infrastructure to deal with the burden of preventable diseases. Meningitis for example can kill a child in...... [view]

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