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What if women women came first?

In the world of international health aid, countless individuals are turned away from specialized hospitals for not being HIV-positive. Why? Because the majority of health aid is funneled into just...

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Importance of Evaluating Corporate Motivations

In deciding whether or not to work with a particular organization it is important to evaluate the motivations and social position of the potential partner. Economist Milton Friedman argues that a...

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“Tackling NCDs: a different approach is needed”

Please read our comment on NCDs, published in the Lancet this past month. Tackling NCDs: a different approach is needed Authors: Jan De Maeseneer, Richard G Roberts, Marcelo Demarzo, Iona Heath, Nelson...

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A Problematic Advertisment

Nicholas Druar and I spent some time looking into Smile Train for our recent editorial with David Egilman and Fernando Mora. The information we found on the company put our entire team on Smile Train...

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Giving During the Holiday Season: A New Perspective

Each year around this time inboxes fill up with requests for donations to various organizations, people in stores asking us for a few extra dollars, and holiday letters from various organizations...

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What We Shouldn’t Be Learning from Corporate Marketing

In 2010 Coca Cola teamed up with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in an effort to increase the delivery of essential medicines to wherever Coca Cola products were delivered....

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Nigeria killings are not about vaccinations – they are about politics

I was surprised by a recent blog post from IntraHealth International, and a subsequent HIFA 2015 (Health Information for All) response, about the killing of nine health care workers in Nigeria. On...

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International Women’s Day: the beginning of a month of [re]thinking global...

Here at [re]think aid we occasionally chat about the ‘fourth wave’ of feminism and how it’s a global movement. In the past several years, it seems to us like we’ve seen an uprising – a kind of bubbling...

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Lancet Article Highlights Links between Corporations and Non-Communicable...

A few weeks ago, I posted an editorial about concerns with utilizing the methods of corporations such as Coca-Cola in health promotion. We are happy to report that recent research on behalf of the...

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a note from boston

On this past Friday April 19th, I was talking on the phone with a colleague as I sat in my bedroom under orders to stay in my house with the doors locked. By the time this phone call happened, the...

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Poo-Wars Poo-Wars, Read All About It!

After reading a recent BBC article, I turned to Tess, (our esteemed editor here at [re]think aid), and asked: “This is kind of problematic, right? I mean, yes poop is funny, but it’s a bit...

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Celebrating 10 years of PEPFAR? – rethinking approaches to combating HIV abroad

PEPFAR’s recent 10-year anniversary on May 27th was accompanied by a buzz of internet praise and support, some of which is summarized here. Ambassador Eric Goosby and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci daringly...

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The Insidiousness of Coke & Kool-Aid

The Community Tool Box is an excellent resource from the University of Kansas for implementing community-based initiatives with community input and support. I’ve been spending a lot of time on this...

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Bearded Old White Man Says…

We had this idea to start a new column a ways back called “Bearded Old White Man Says…” that humorously pokes fun of things Western know-it-alls say on the web about global health and development. In a...

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“Tackling NCDs: a different approach is needed”

Please read our comment on NCDs, published in the Lancet this past month. Tackling NCDs: a different approach is needed Authors: Jan De Maeseneer, Richard G Roberts, Marcelo Demarzo, Iona Heath, Nelson...

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