Global health
A health expert at the World Bank, a new horizon for Global Health?
Guest blog by SIPRI Zack Allal: Dr Jim Yong Kim was officially announced as the new president for the World Bank in April. Dr. Kim has an extensive background within the global health sphere, which could make a great difference in the World Bank's future investment in global health.
The use of health as a tool of repression in Syria
A recent report from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has highlighted the brutality of the Assad regime in its continuing attemt to curb the nationwide uprising in Syria.
Animal and human health, one health approaches
Davos, Switzerland initially seems an unlikely place for a conference on the relationship between animal and human health – but actually is quite a fitting venue. From the mid-18th Century onwards, the Swiss mountain air was recommended for patients suffering from lung diseases and many of the hotels were once tuberculosis sanatoria (Think Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain).
SCIENCE VERSUS SECURITY – WHOEVER WINS, LOSES
Special Guest Blog: Adam Kamradt-Scott, Senior Lecturer in International Security Studies, Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney. Correspondence to: adam.kamradt-scott@sydney.edu.au
China, HIV and the Global Fund
2 January 2012: World Aids Day at the beginning of December was a mixed occasion. With new HIV infections decreasing worldwide and more people with access to treatment, there was cause for celebration. At the same time, the Global Fund, which provides about 70 per cent of these medications has not secured sufficient donations for its next round of funding – and will not be receiving grant applications until at least 2014.
