This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Visiting Brisbane in November for the International Tropical Agriculture Conference for 2017, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute Dr. Jimmy Smith discussed with Devex a range of new and exciting programs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Helping children heal from abuse or neglect is rewarding but hard. Like the children in their care, kin and foster parents need to find ways of experiencing strong feelings without…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Marian Wentworth’s journey to leading Management Sciences for Health, the global health NGO that works in 36 countries, didn’t have a typical beginning. Her degree? Mathematics. Her first job after…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Unlike existing vaccines, Vi-TT could be used to protect very young children. Children are disproportionately affected by typhoid, but the currently licensed vaccines are not effective in young children. Typhoid…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Loan-buy downs is not a new concept, but most of its known usage is limited, and often in health. It usually involves three parties — the lender, the borrower, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Families have benefited from a health system that offers prematurely born and severely sick children a significantly better chance of survival than it did 10 years ago. The most important…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We see roughly 20 patients a day, mostly for STI (sexually transmitted infection) screening, family planning, and HIV treatment. We thought if we only offered HIV testing, patients might not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As many as 22,000 low-income people in King County will be eligible for same-day outpatient treatment for mental health and addiction services under an innovative new program announced today by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Global Fund on Wednesday announced its first debt-to-health, or D2H, swap since 2011, kicking off a strategy that aims to engage up to five new creditor countries in 2018. “Over the next…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. My history with HIV goes back to my training in the late 1980s and early ’90s, when we started seeing infants infected through mother-to-child transmission. Treatment was just beginning to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every day malaria kills almost 1,200 people, according to the World Health Organization. Twelve hundred people every day. The main step we can take to end this horrible disease is to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Theresa Chan is a doctor from the U.S. who has been working in an MSF / Doctors without Borders clinic in Cambodia. As she comes to the end of her…