Aid to Africa is “largely ineffective and often harmful”

Ineffective.

Harmful.

Those are the adjectives the Klein family uses to describe much of the aid that goes to the African continent. We were lucky, at Swarthmore College, to have Tim Klein present What Are We Doing Here? to an audience of over 200 people and answer questions from the audience after the showing. Read on to learn more about why aid to Africa needs to change.

Minus Malaria Week 2010

GHF IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE MINUS MALARIA WEEK, February 7-14, 2010. Swarthmore College’s GHF is spearheading the Minus Malaria Initiative’s kickoff to the new year, as college students come together to alleviate the burden of malaria.

During Minus Malaria Week, we hope to raise $5,000, the equivalent of 1,000 bednets and send 750 letters through the Give a Net, Get a Vote Campaign.

Students participating in MINUS MALARIA WEEK will do this in three ways: education, fundraising, and advocacy. Student organizations in support of the Minus Malaria Initiative (MMI) will host both an educational campaign and a fundraising campaign on their college campus. Through their campaigns, organizations will work to raise awareness about malaria in their communities and to advocate for malaria relief by participating in the Give a Net, Get a Vote campaign: for every $5 donated (the equivalent of one net), supporters of MMI will have the opportunity to sign a letter to Congress, expressing support for legislation that furthers the goals of MMI. All funds raised will be used to purchase bednets to be distributed in Malen chiefdom in Sierra Leone, a community where MMI has previously focused its efforts.

Join the movement! Read on to learn how.

Tags: advocacy, bednets, campaign, fundraising, global health, malaria, Minus Malaria, MMI

Top Ten Global Health Stories of 2009

Yes, the year has closed and so has the first decade of the 21st century. While many persons debate what to call this past decade - the one-ders, the double-Os, the M&M, the pre-teens, etc. - we reflect on more important things. Such as the top ten global health stories of the year (or, whichever stories we picked on a whim). A quick review…

Tags: aids, ebola, global health, guinea worm, hiv, immunization, malaria, medicine, nigeria, public health, uganda, vaccine, water, water sanitation