Weekly Highlights May 17-23
Guest blogger Michael Keizer started off the week with a fascinating dissection of international treaties and agreements relevant to the question, Is Health a Human Right? Check it out to learn what the acronyms UDHR, ICCPR, and ICESCR mean for the right to health.
Did you know that Your Old Cell Phone Can Make a Difference to Global Health? An exciting cell phone collection campaign launched this week called Hope Phones. Donating your old Blackberry will give 3-5 cell phones to healthcare workers in the developing world.
Two interesting reports came out this week: Guest blogger Mara explores an IOM report on why the US should invest in global health and what's different between 2009 and the past, while Global Health Guide Alanna Shaikh provides the highlights of an amfAR report on Men Who Have Sex With Men.
Mara also wrote about HIV Prevention and Behavior Change, using the success of Uganda to illustrate that HIV prevention requires not just condoms or just abstinence programs, but both in combination. Sometimes, though, the necessary behavior change may be as subtle as changing perceived norms, as Alanna explores in her post on Child Nutrition and Shifting Baselines.
Last week, we learned that Paul Farmer is considering a job as the Director of US Foreign Assistance and Administrator of USAID. In response, Alanna wrote An Open Letter to Paul Farmer imploring him to not take the job, because foreign aid reform is going to be "a long, slow slog through a thicket of bureaucracy and entrenched interests."
For those who are in graduate school or considering that option, on career Wednesday Alanna wrote a helpful post on How Not to Waste Your Grad School Tuition.
And if this blog is not enough to satiate your global health appetite, check out Alanna's list of Recommended Reading for information on the World Bank's self-evaluation, PEPFAR's new coordinator, and a neat new HIV/AIDS monitoring tool.
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