Earlier this year, our friends at the mHealth Alliance launched a competition for mHealth entrepreneurs who are developing mobile phone technology to service the health needs in some of the most remote, hard to reach places on earth.
The UN Population Division projects the planet will see its 7 billionth person born today. I spoke to William Ryerson about what that kind of population growth means. Mr. Ryerson is the founder and President of Population Media Center, Chairman of Population Institute, fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and recipient of the 2006 Nafis Sadik Prize for Courage.
The Council on Foreign Relations just posted this interactive global map of outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases like measles, mumps, whooping cough since 2008.
A new study shows that TB and TB deaths are declining for the first time ever. But can this progress be sustained amid foreign aid cuts by donor governments?
Matt Bryden and Enough argue that Somalia's government and Islamist rebels should be held criminally responsible for region's famine. They may be right.
If a group like UNITAID can administer just a small sliver of that $57 billion pie, the fight against global diseases can not only hold its ground--but prevail.
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday at a packed reception in mid-town Manhattan. There were lots of notables in the room, but the real stars were the cookstoves. (Pictures)
