Based on Facebook’s IPO filing, market analysts put the company’s total value at a high of $100 billion. Assuming it is worth that much, Mashable compiled a list of “giant” things that are less valuable than Facebook. The third spot on the list puts it into perspective for the health wonks out there:
The Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment for 6 Years
Breast cancer costs the U.S. $16.5 billion per year. Multiply that number by six years and you reach $99 billion.
The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases serves as a new generation Marshall Plan for the bottom billion, but with a priority on girls and women living in poverty to wipe out the 10 most common NTDs by 2020.
Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, describing a new partnership between 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K. and U.A.E governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other organisations.
I am proud to live in a world where a stranger’s suffering matters. Yet foreign aid, the best way to address that suffering, has a growing legion of critics. That is a contradiction we must remedy, and the best way to do it is to tell the truth about aid.
Science writer Carl Zimmer discusses a deeply personal story and profound realization on Radiolab. Do yourself a favor and listen to it!
One night 14 years ago, Carl Zimmer woke up in the middle of the night in a panic. He was in South Sudan to research a collection of terrible, deadly diseases—like sleeping sickness and a particularly virulent strain of malaria—that plagued the region. As he looked up at the moon, he noticed several holes in his mosquito netting, and his brain began to spin through the grim possibilities.
Without giving too much away, Carl goes on to tell the story of how he found himself in that tent with the torn netting in the first place. And he explains how what happened that night changed his life.
For the 10th anniversary of the Global Fund, and as part of the on-going improvements to our online platforms, the web site is seeing a number of changes. …
The updated design aims to improve the look and feel and functionality of our web site, with more changes to come in the weeks ahead.
As of today, the Global Fund web site will maintain a blog where you can find information we view as useful or interesting for our audience.
I hope that more charities will be joining tumblr’s ranks, so in an effort to raise awareness of different organizations and their missions, I’m creating a list of these groups & their tumblr presence!
“I think in order to be effective change agents and advocates for global health, we need to tell a story quite persuasively and we need to learn to do that through various forms of media, whether it’s TV, social media or investigative journalism,” Michele Barry, director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, said of the Stanford-NBC News Global Health Media Fellowship.
The first fellow is Joyce Ho, a Stanford med student who has worked in the communications office of the World Health Organization in Geneva. As part of the fellowship, Ho will spend time at NBC News in New York, work with a documentary photographer, and she’ll collaborate with Ning, the online social media group.
It’s a little weird that the Twitter account and blog associated with the fellowship (listed at the end of the story) both lead to dead links. But since the article is dated Nov. 21, I am thinking the links might be activated then.
