What We’re Reading 9/18/09
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: NGOs try to give poor a voice
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette discusses the various NGOs that will be present at the G20 next week, including a spotlight on ONE and its strong presence throughout Pittsburgh. The article mentions ONE’s push to hold the next G20 in Africa, as well as the slogan, “Africa is part of the solution.”
TIME: New Airline-Ticket Tax to Aid the Developing World
A new program is starting in January 2010 that will ask for a two-dollar donation to help fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB in Africa when buying airline tickets at a travel agency or online. The new program is the idea of a small U.N. agency and is backed by the travel industry and aid agencies such as CGI and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It will be formally announced in New York City on Sept. 23 at the U.N. General Assembly.
The Economist: Back from the dead
The IMF is working to strike a balance between being a credible lender of last resort and an effective policy policeman, after regaining its status as “a flexible and innovative crisis-responder,” according to The Economist. The article argues that “fixing the IMF’s governance and giving emerging economies more say are prerequisites if the fund is to build upon its newly acquired relevance,” tasks which are likely to be on the G20’s agenda next week.
Reuters: Merck, Wellcome launch vaccine project for poor
U.S. drugs group Merck & Co has teamed up with Britain’s Wellcome Trust medical charity to develop affordable vaccines for poor countries, a $148 million dollar venture over seven years, which marks the first time that a drugmaker and a charity have joined forces to create vaccines for the developing world. “The Merck-Wellcome venture is the latest effort to demonstrate “good citizenship” by the global pharmaceutical industry, which has been criticized for not doing enough to ensure people in Africa and other poorer regions have adequate access to medicine,” says Reuters.
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September 20, 2009 at 1:04 am
With the tobacco science denials that Big pharma uses to escape the harm that vaccinations have caused to Children ,autism,sids,and attention deficate disorders which have been studied for decades I am not comfortable with letting them use people in desperate need to futher there damage to them. There has been tremendous research on these problems and anyone fortunate enough to afford an attorney and have there day in court has been paid for the horrendous damage caused by them. how can they still say there is no link with Vaccines and these issues. I would say that affordable or free clean water and medicines yes but i would not say yes to the vaccinations as they do more harm than good.Please do your research more carefully before you unleash these nuro toxic enriched Vaccines on those who can least be able to withstand the damage they will cause.Please see Vaccine Nation, the truth about Vaccines ,and many others to reseachers in this field and then make up your minds