Category: Information and Social Media

Global Health TV Video: Central Role of Family Planning in Global Health

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Increasing access to family planning will play a central role in achieving UN targets for maternal health, eradication of poverty, education and gender equality, according to a major series on Family Planning published by The Lancet.

CGDev Video: Assessing the Los Cabos G-20 Summit and Rio+20 Earth Summit (panel discussion)

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Over the course of one week, world leaders convened in Los Cabos, Mexico, for the G20 Summit and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The outcomes of these two high-level meetings have potentially important implications for poor people in the developing world in three key areas: food security and agriculture, energy, and green growth. U.S. representatives to the Los Cabos G20 and Rio+20 summits, and other distinguished speakers joined us for an assessment of these summits and the road ahead.

MSF Videos: Neglected Tropical Diseases

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MSF recently released this set of videos on NTDs (neglected tropical diseases). On a related note, I am looking for someone to take over this duty for the blog (finding interesting/relevant YouTube videos and posting them here with some brief commentary), so if you are interested, please e-mail me!


Sleeping sickness is a fatal and much neglected disease that plagues parts of Africa.


Chagas is a parasitic disease found on the American continent, where it affects an estimated 8 to 10 million people and claims up to 12,500 lives every year.

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Kala Azar is a neglected tropical disease responsible for 50,000 deaths every year.

The Afridi Conviction (CSIS Video)

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Watch J. Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, discuss Dr. Shakeel Afridi’s conviction in Pakistan and what it means for global vaccine programs.