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Blog Post
December 20, 2012
The global health legacy of 2012 will be twofold, a year of both increased commitments to health and flat lining budgets. Just look at this past summer: world leaders made a call to end preventable child deaths, the London Summit on Family Planning has resulted in $2.6 billion of commitments, and th...
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November 28, 2012
This is a joint post with Lawrence MacDonald.
What do the stalled climate talks getting underway in Doha, Qatar, this week and the partisan jousting in Washington over the impending “fiscal cliff” have in common? Not much if you get your information from the mainstream media, which has mostly...
Blog Post
November 19, 2012
This is a joint post with Alex Ezeh.
Maybe you missed it–but this past Sunday, November 18, was African Statistics Day.
It’s the 12th celebration of the day, and a good time to note that substantial gaps remain in the availability and quality of data on basic indicators of human well-b...
Blog Post
November 12, 2012
This week the Global Fund Board will determine whether to “expand, accelerate, terminate or suspend the Affordable Medicines Facility – malaria (AMFm).” Ideally, the Board would make an evidence-based decision. However, both the sufficiency and the relevance of available technical evidence have been...
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November 07, 2012
Ensuring better quality care within constrained budgets is an issue in developing and developed countries alike. In the US, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services new Innovation Center is tasked with helping transform Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program through impr...