Humanosphere

• USAID declares water is critical to global development

  

  After fifty years in the game, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) unveiled its first ever water and development strategy. Some say it’s about time. “For many years in development work, water, sanitation and hygiene have been a … Read More

• Feed the World: Bugs
• Gates-backed vaccine alliance targets cervical cancer in poor countries - for a price

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• Fight erupts over scientists patenting a new virus

  Flickr, gainesp2003 In a bad sign for the world’s ability to work together to fight against bird flu or some other pandemic, a flap has erupted over some Dutch scientists applying for a patent on a newly recognized SARS-like virus … Read More

• Map of Africa's soil
• Online mapping of drug-resistant malaria

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• Ten disease burden stories from around the globe

  

  Flickr, Oliver Erdmann When Bill Gates and a gang of Seattle number-crunchers this week revealed the latest phase of the new Global Burden of Disease report – a massive survey of death and disability – news organizations focused on how … Read More

• Visualize Global Health
• The burden of a new global health agenda

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