Dignity in Development
By Duncan McNicholl
Last year, I began the Perspectives of Poverty photography project to demonstrate how carefully constructed images can lead us to very different conclusions about someone living […]
Critical and Conventional Perspectives on Global Health
Microbicides: Another “Silver Bullet” Needs Ongoing Socio-Cultural Analysis
Part I: Microbicide: a magic bullet in HIV prevention strategies for women?
By Veronica Noseda, Social sciences project officer, Sidaction, Paris
Every international Aids Conference needs a big announcement to go down […]
“When the Night Comes” film critique and discussion
By Cecelia Lynch
I sent the following email to the Directors of the UN Foundation (Timothy Wirth and Elizabeth Gore) after viewing a screening of the film, “When the Night Comes.” […]
The Double-Edged Gift: Sifting Through the Electronics Morass and Toxic Waste in Africa
By Dele Ogunseitan
“The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depend on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount […]
Forty Years of Pandemic Quiescence Ushers in New Questions about the Focus of Global Health
By Dele Ogunseitan
On Thursday 11 June 2009, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) invoked the highest level of global alert (level […]