Turning Targets Into Action, Against the ClockJune 13, 2019 |
How do we make the transition towards healthy and sustainable diets for all? The EAT-Lancet Commission, including our Jessica Fanzo, was the first to set scientific targets. Are we running out of time to turn them into actions?
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James Toomey writes that the core argument—that unless Facebook’s suicide prediction algorithm is subject to the regulatory regime of medicine and operated on an opt-in basis it is morally problematic—is misguided and alarmist
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Just 15 years ago, in a historic act of global humanitarian leadership, President George W. Bush proposed in his 2003 State of the Union address the creation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Later that year, Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act
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HIV Drugs Cost $75 in Africa, $39,000 in the U.S. Does It Matter?September 19, 2018 |
In the United States, pharmaceutical companies have built a system which supports high costs for HIV drugs. But that may be starting to change
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‘Ethics Dumping’December 13, 2017 |
The dark side of international research. Knowingly inflicting severe harm on human beings for the purpose of research is one of the most serious human rights abuses possible. Cases of exploitation in research have been used to illustrate unacceptable practices since the mid-20th century
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Nourishing the SDGsNovember 6, 2017 |
Global Nutrition Report 2017 finds ‘significant burdens’ of malnutrition in all 140 countries studied. Urgent, integrated response needed if world to meet any of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The Global Nutrition Report’s Independent Expert Group is co-chaired by our Jessica Fanzo
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Why World Hunger Isn’t Going Away As Fast As We’d HopedOctober 17, 2017 |
But while at first glance the global trend lines still look promising, Vos says a closer look at the statistics reveal stubborn problems that threaten that rosy picture. Increasingly this year, he says, cracks are starting to show
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An Experiment Gives Cash Aid To The Poor. Is That Ethical?September 14, 2017 |
Many readers of this blog told us they were inspired by the first story in our series on #nostringscash aid — about a ground-breaking experiment in Kenya to test the benefits of giving poor people a steady stream of cash in place of traditional aid. But some questioned the ethics of studies like this
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