The Great Beyond, Nature.com The GAVI Alliance, which focuses on getting vaccines into low-income countries, has announced that it will suspend cash handouts to some programmes in Niger, Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon, while it investigates possible misuse of funds. Together with another investigation in Mali –...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk Lord Ashdown's review of how the UK responds to humanitarian emergencies points to a major shortcoming in today's humanitarian aid system: the absence of a systematic effort to assess whether beneficiaries are satisfied with the efforts made on their behalf by UN agencies...
Reuters (Reuters) - An epidemic of measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "spiraling out of control," the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday. Read more....
Devi Sridhar, DPhil, Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, JAMA In December 2010, Jack Chow, the former World Health Organization (WHO) assistant director-general, asked, “Is the WHO becoming irrelevant?” A month later, the WHO's executive board considered the agency's future within global health governance. After a year-long consultation...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk In the 20th century, increased production was a fairly successful response to absolute poverty, which had been the lot of most of the human race for most of history. But in the 21st century, that path has come to a dead end, as...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk Over the last 10 years I've been looking at the question of how the UK public engages with global poverty. I've done this research with a variety of NGOs, including Comic Relief, and have reviewed the evidence on public engagement for DfID on...
Todd Summers, ONE Blog A little while ago, we asked our friends on Facebook and Twitter to submit their questions on vaccines to me. We picked a few to answer, and here they are. Take a look: Ali Gohar Jamali from Pakistan (via Twitter) and Unimke Nawa from...
Ben Doherty, Brisbane Times The world's biggest philanthropist has urged Australia - now reviewing its foreign aid program and defending it against allegations of corruption - to put more money towards vaccinating Third World children. In an exclusive interview with the Herald, Bill...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk Does aid go on forever? Does global inequality carry on deepening? Crystal ball-gazing is never easy, but recently various development experts have been having a go. Next Tuesday, the Overseas Development Institute is hosting a debate on the future of development. I've come up...
Charissa Sparks, AllAfrica.com Most often caused by small businesses and mining, toxic threats are endangering the lives of 100 million people worldwide. These pollutants are largely overlooked, even though they cause significant harm to humans. "The global health impacts of toxic pollutants are much worse than previously...
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