Posted in health, wtf, tagged ad, advertising, aid, commercial, doctors without borders, msf, poverty on 21 November 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s hard to be against the efforts of Doctors Without Borders (aka Medecins Sans Frontieres/MSF): they work in difficult conditions providing excellent care to people who have few if any other options. But recent ad campaigns by MSF have gotten out of hand. Take the latest example, “Girl”:
Perhaps the economic downturn [...]
Posted in globalization, government, hiv/aids, research, tagged advocacy, aid, AIDS, funding, HIV, hiv/aids on 18 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Owen abroad discusses the lethal effects of development advocacy. His first example is of earmarked funding for HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia:
…we should also make sure that people have bednets and drugs to stop malaria, provide childhood vaccination to prevent easily preventable diseases, ensure access to contraception and safe abortions, and, above all, enough funding to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aid, charity, giving, humor, monty python, orphans on 20 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, aid, AIDS, health, health policy, HIV, hiv/aids, policy, stigma on 4 June 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last month, I presented a chapter from my dissertation about local demand for AIDS intervention. The findings are somewhat controversial in that there’s a serious misalignment in policy priorities: we in the West have spent a lot on HIV/AIDS, whereas ordinary Africans have stated preferences prioritizing other public policy problems. The discussion was lively to [...]
