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January 15, 2010
Ways to improve the wellbeing of girls and women in the developing world are expected to receive lots of attention at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City this week. CGD vice president Ruth Levine offers an advance look at her forthcoming report, Start with a Girl: A New Agenda fo...
January 15, 2010
Donor spending on global health has surged, yet for many poor people in developing countries even basic prevention and treatment remain elusive. CGD’s newest book, Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls, shows how modest payments in cash or kind can get more health from hea...
January 15, 2010
Last week’s presidential candidate forum on national service highlighted the theme of volunteerism common to the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama. Both promised to make service a priority and emphasized the value of expanding domestic and international service opportunities. CGD senior fell...
January 15, 2010
The increased availability of life-saving medicines worldwide is having a serious unintended side-effect: a wide array of diseases -- from malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS to pneumonia and acute diarrhea -- is becoming resistant to the drugs we rely on to overcome them. To address this critical challenge, ...
January 15, 2010
Some critics allege that IMF programs in low-income countries unnecessarily limit health spending, hurting poor people. The IMF responds that its programs are designed to ensure the fiscal stability needed for poverty-reducing growth and that the IMF merely sets targets for overall spending, with co...
January 15, 2010
According to the annual AIDS Epidemic Update released this week, the number of people living with HIV (about 40 million) and the number of new infections (about 4.3 million) were roughly the same this year as in 2001. So is the epidemic getting better, worse or staying the same? Mead Over, an expert...
January 15, 2010
In its first four years, the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has become one of the most important aid agencies in the world, committing some $5.5 billion in grants to more than 130 countries. Next week the Global Fund will select a new executive director. CGD senior fellow Steve R...
January 15, 2010
IMF critics allege that its programs unduly constrain health spending in poor countries. The IMF argues that countries set their own spending priorities while the Fund monitors overall spending and fiscal sustainability. The issue has become more pressing, as countries seek to utilize scaled-up aid,...
January 15, 2010
The sudden death of World Health Organization director general Lee Jong-wook at the start of the World Health Assembly has created a leadership vacuum at a time when the WHO faces immense challenges. Ruth Levine, who heads CGD's Global Health Policy Research Network, argues that the WHO leadership ...