Putting Cancer on the Global Health Agenda
Most people who die from cancer, and most cancer cases, are in the developing world. Yet cancer is seldom included in any discussion about global health. Some powerful people — from the high-profile...
View ArticleThe Most Neglected Disease in Global Health
Is it Kala-azar black fever? Elephantiasis? African sleeping sickness? Guinea worm? How about mental illness? “Mental health is the Rodney Dangerfield of international health,” says Paul Bolton, an...
View ArticleWhat is a Neglected Disease?
One of the funny, maddening things about global health is all the terminology people use that seems to lack precise definition. Global health itself is fairly imprecise and debatable, as it turns out....
View ArticleFoot note: Millions suffer simply for lack of shoes
Millions of bare feet prove we still aren’t reaching the very poorest of the poor. The international community is doing a lot to help the world’s poor — spending billions of dollars (not enough, but...
View ArticleFoot note 2: Neglected “shoe” disease gets recognition by WHO
One neglected disease is a little bit less neglected today. The World Health Organization has decided to recognize that lack of shoes causes disease. A month ago, I wrote about Dr. Gail Davey’s...
View ArticleNPR: Using lay therapists to deal with mental illness in India
In the global health arena, mental health care is typically considered — or not considered at all, more accurately — as infeasible for poor communities compared to the more pressing disease burdens of...
View ArticlePATH acquires drug company to speed fight on neglected diseases
Seattle-based PATH announced today that it is acquiring the non-profit drug company OneWorld Health. OneWorld Health, which will continue to operate from its headquarters in San Francisco, was created...
View ArticleHow Jimmy Carter became a serpent slayer and global health pioneer
Former President Jimmy Carter is in Seattle, having spoken last night at the World Affairs Council’s 60th anniversary celebration and speaking today at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation about...
View ArticleAnother neglected disease: Cancer in the Developing World
Freelance (and former NPR) health journalist Joanne Silberner of Seattle is doing a series of reports on cancer in the developing world for a number of news organizations with funding from the Pulitzer...
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