http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog/ en 65@globalhealth.org Copyright 2010 2010-07-27T07:19:44+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/toilets_nepal/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/toilets_nepal/#When:07:19:44Z “I enjoy staying in the classroom where I can concentrate on studying,” fifth-grader Lalit Khatri told me when I spoke to him at the Pashupati Primary School in Dashera village, which is located in the Jajarkot District of Nepal. 2010-07-27T07:19:44+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/health_workers_mdgs/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/health_workers_mdgs/#When:19:55:19Z Progress on the health MDGs, particularly in maternal, newborn and child health, requires equitable access to quality, essential health services. Nowhere is this more evident than in fragile contexts, where levels of morbidity and mortality are highest and where progress on the MDGs is most off-track. This is a huge challenge, but one that must be met if we are to reach the millennium targets and realise the right to health for all. 2010-07-26T19:55:19+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/ipm/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/ipm/#When:15:46:31Z Today, at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, the Center for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) announced successful results of a clinical trial testing an antiretroviral (ARV)-based vaginal microbicide for its ability to prevent HIV infection in women. This announcement marks a turning point in efforts to develop safe and effective female-initiated HIV prevention methods. The trial, named CAPRISA 004, showed that women who used a gel containing tenofovir, an ARV commonly used to treat HIV, had a 39 percent lower rate of infection compared to women who used a placebo gel. 2010-07-20T15:46:31+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/pacific_health_summit/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/pacific_health_summit/#When:11:35:25Z By John Donnelly Jeremy Shiffman, a newly hired associate professor of public administration and policy at American University in Washington, wanted to compare the funding of maternal and newborn health in the developing world to something the Western world could understand. 2010-06-24T11:35:25+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/iavi_tech/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/iavi_tech/#When:15:40:06Z On September 8, 2000, then Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihar Vajpayee took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York - 26th in a line of 66 world leaders to take to the mic on the final day of a summit serious about starting the new millennium off right. 2010-06-23T15:40:06+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/early_detection_Jhpiego/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/early_detection_Jhpiego/#When:17:56:35Z More than 60 years ago, a doctor from Cornell University discovered that precancerous cells from the cervix could be identified before they turned lethal. The finding revolutionized the screening and treatment of cervical cancer. Dr. George Papanicolaou’s “Pap” test became routine for women and within two decades, deaths from cervical cancer in the United States decreased dramatically – a reduction of 74 percent. 2010-06-04T17:56:35+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/mdg_5_engenderhealth/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/mdg_5_engenderhealth/#When:17:33:44Z When Brenda Mensah, a petty trader in Accra, Ghana, was pregnant with her fifth child, she learned about family planning one day during a talk at her local health clinic. It was a talk Brenda wished she had heard years earlier.   2010-05-28T17:33:44+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/text_cash_food/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/text_cash_food/#When:14:23:58Z Niger is on the brink of what will be a major catastrophe if the world does not act now. As part of Concern’s Emergency Response Team, I am no stranger to crises: that is why I was sent to Niger on Jan. 10, just two days before the Haiti earthquake. 2010-05-28T14:23:58+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/delivering_immunization/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/delivering_immunization/#When:17:30:02Z “This will give mothers peace of mind.” “This will reduce my fear of my child dying of pneumonia.”“This will reduce the number of trips mothers make to the health center.”“This will save me money if my child doesn’t get sick.” “We need this, bring it quickly!” “This” is pneumococcal vaccine, and the speakers were mothers in Rwanda, giving their views on this new vaccine prior to its introduction there a year ago. Enthusiasm for a vaccine that helps protect against the most common cause of childhood mortality ran high. And with vaccine donated by the GAVI Alliance, cold chain equipment provided by USAID, and technical support from the USAID-funded IMMUNIZATIONbasics Project, Rwanda became the first country in Africa to introduce this vaccine. 2010-05-11T17:30:02+00:00 http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/mdg_2_aed/ http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/mdg_2_aed/#When:15:31:54Z The eight Millennium Development Goals, confirmed by 189 countries at a meeting of the United Nations in 2000, set out a comprehensive plan to halve extreme poverty by the year 2015. MDG 2 calls for universal primary education by 2015, ensuring that “children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.” 2010-05-11T15:31:54+00:00