Global vaccine action plan adopted

Source: Humanitarian News

The World Health Assembly today adopted a global vaccination strategy aimed at preventing millions of child deaths worldwide by continuing to expand access to immunization. Doctors without Borders has criticized the plan (largely supported and funded by ...
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“Toilet Team” director leaves Gates Foundation to lead CGIAR Consortium

Source: Humanitarian News

Less than two years after joining the Bill ...
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Still more criticism of Obama’s private-sector relief plan for African hunger

Source: Humanosphere

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Source: Education Week

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Two more views on renewing WHO

Source: Humanosphere

A trio of writers at Foreign Affairs says: “After 15 years of heralded progress on pandemic preparedness, tuberculosis control, tobacco regulation, and health metrics, the World Health Organization faces confusion over its future.” They suggest a n ...
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Technology in Tibet: Democratically disruptive

Source: Humanosphere

A good read, and a reminder of how technology can, in fact, by itself sometimes be a force for good. Knock, knock, knock. His guest flinched, but the monk calmly gestured to a desktop computer next to the rel ...
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Admit it: Kony 2012 has made a difference

Source: Humanosphere

The social media campaign aimed at capturing African warlord Joseph Kony has not succeeded in capturing the war criminal. And many of the criticisms aimed at this effort for its simplistic messaging, distortion of fac ...
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Doctors using ‘solar suitcase’ in poor countries

Source: Humanosphere

A doctor who worked in poor clinics has a husband who is a solar engineer. They put their heads together and came up with a clever solution for dealing with lack of power in clinics in hundreds of poor communiti ...
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News Rounds: Kenya’s reality TV show for farmers, Congress angry at Pakistan but not at CIA for undermining global health, Congo violence persists and more

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