Health
Ever since human migrations began, germs have traveled with people and created
health hazards for other communities. In an interconnected world, diseases
such as HIV/AIDS and SARS bring about challenges unforeseen prior to the age of air travel.
But international cooperation through agencies such as the World Health Organization also allows
for quicker response times and collective responses to global health threats. Meanwhile, however,
large pharmaceutical companies seeking to maximize profit see little potential in developing vaccines
or treatments for diseases that mainly afflict people in poor, developing countries, contributing
to another level of global inequality made more visible through increased media exposure and
travel opportunities. The following articles have been assembled to shed light on these
and other related issues.
Nicholas Zamiska
The Wall Street Journal, 6 May 2008
An educated public expects regular government updates on any disease outbreaks
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Beat Balzli and Frank Hornig
Spiegel Online, 25 April 2008
Profit-takers in the commodities markets shrug about food riots and starvation
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Dominique Strauss-Khan
The Financial Times, 21 April 2008
Governments have a moral obligation to prevent widespread starvation
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Rüdiger Falksohn and Amira El Ahl and Jens Glüsing and Alexander Jung and Padma Rao and Thilo Thielke and Volkhard Windfuhr
Spiegel Online, 18 April 2008
A global and worsening food crisis thwarts globalization’s gains in the developing world
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Barry Malone
Reuters, 16 April 2008
Demonstrating IT prowess, India starts wiring Africa
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Aljazeera.net, 11 April 2008
Subsidized biofuels trigger food shortages and riots, while doing little to slow climate change
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Helen Nyambura-Mwaura
Reuters, 4 April 2008
Spending on health care reflects a society’s respect for the skill
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Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden
The Independent, 18 March 2008
Debris swirls in the Pacific Ocean, compromising the world’s water and food systems
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Nils Klawitter
Spiegel Online, 17 March 2008
Regulations can’t keep up with a booming organic-food industry
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Nature, 28 February 2008
In the business of health care, viruses become a valuable commodity
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