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Tag Archives: global health
Solving development problems impaired by market failure
by Angela Rastegar Campbell Amid budget constraints, global development funders are increasingly pushing for higher overall aid effectiveness. In response, funders and program implementers alike are exploring novel approaches to develop solutions with limited funding. Over the past decade, “innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Finance, Global Health
Tagged Advanced Market Commitment, AMCs, business models, GAVI, GAVI Alliance, global health, innovative finance models, innovative financing, pneumococcal vaccine, PPP, public-private partnerships, publication, SSIR, Stanford Social Innovation Review, vaccine
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Saving lives efficiently with Community Health Workers
By Ya’ir Aizenmann Often, discussion on global health efforts focuses on the newest medicine or latest advanced device. However, Dalberg recently designed a framework for the MDG Health Alliance to analyze an approach that has been around for decades – Community Health … Continue reading
Posted in Global Health
Tagged Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, BRAC, CHW, development, Ethiopia, global health, Health, JHU, MDG Health Alliance, MDGs, Pakistan
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Finding solutions to hidden hunger
by Bhavana Chilukuri An estimated two billion people worldwide suffer from chronic micronutrient malnutrition. Also known as ‘hidden hunger,’ because its symptoms have few visible warning signs, micronutrient malnutrition results from consistently consuming foods severely lacking in vitamins and minerals … Continue reading
Is Obesity a Development Issue?
by Jasmin Blak The obesity epidemic is a growing threat to health and economic growth in developed and developing countries alike, and low income groups are the hardest hit. Development agendas should place greater attention on obesity, including healthy public … Continue reading
Posted in Global Health
Tagged global health, NCDs, non-communicable diseases, obesity, overweight
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HIV/AIDS: Looking Ahead
by Julia Shen and Angela Rastegar Despite the progress we’ve made in the past thirty years, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is far from over. There are currently 34 million people worldwide infected with HIV, and it is estimated that there are … Continue reading
Posted in Global Health
Tagged access to medicine, AIDS, AIDS 2012, ARVs, global health, HIV, HIV/AIDS, International AIDS Conference
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D. Talks: Paradigm-busting Advocacy Strategies
In the 1990s, global health advocate Dr. Paul Zeitz was living in Zambia on the “frontline” of the Global AIDS pandemic, working to implement HIV prevention programs on behalf of USAID. The disease was so visible that one day, he … Continue reading
Posted in Global Health
Tagged Act V, advocacy, advocacy strategy, AIDS, global health, HIV/AIDS, Paul Zeitz
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Why fund this, not that?
by Daniel Altman The following is an excerpt from “Fund This, Not That: Ideas for Improving Investments in Global Development,” a Dalberg Global Development Advisors compendium released this week, available here. In global development, good intentions are no longer enough. … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, energy, fund this not that, global health, human rights, impact, publications, social investment
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The New Global Health Agenda: Universal Health Coverage
In both developed and developing countries, even basic healthcare and medicine can be unaffordable for households that lack insurance. For these families, demand for insurance is high but extending health coverage can be expensive, making it tricky for emerging countries … Continue reading
Looking forward in the fight against malaria
by guest blogger Nicolas Theopold Last week was exciting for the fight against malaria: in Seattle, global health leaders came together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Malaria Forum to discuss the status and future of the fight against … Continue reading
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Tagged Gates Foundation, Geneva, global health, Health, malaria, medicine, vaccines
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Addressing the burden of non-communicable diseases
This week, the United Nations General Assembly is convening on a health issue for the first time since 2001, when world leaders came together to seek solutions to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, which was responsible for 22 million deaths in … Continue reading
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Tagged General Assembly, global health, Health, NCDs, non-communicable diseases, UN, United Nations
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