To Do: Fight World Hunger

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/ten_things
From the Nation:
1 Write letters to the editor and op-ed articles in your local paper calling on the government to cut or end subsidies that encourage large agribusinesses to overproduce grains and dump their surpluses on the developing world at sub-market prices. This ultimately places poor communities at the mercy of volatile global commodity prices. Learn [...]

Have HIV, will (not) travel

 
Call on governments to lift HIV travel restrictions
Introduction
In advance of the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York from June 10- 11, the World AIDS Campaign and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance urge organizations to sign onto a letter from civil society to the UN missions and Heads of State of countries that [...]

Do something!

Bring Life Saving Global AIDS Legislation to a Vote Now

The greatly improved and expanded version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is stalled in the Senate’s legislative process. The bill authorizes $50 billion in funding and largely focuses on evidence- and human rights-based treatment, prevention and care programs. It must be passed [...]

ARDC and PHR on TV

I was on the news last night representing ARDC (African Refugee Development Center). 

PLoS NTD

Check out the “featured expert commentary” on this link: http://www.plosntds.org/home.action Or rather after this week, it is here: http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000160 

ONE.org request

From an email from the one.org campaign:
On the Record Petition

As a member of ONE, I write to ask you to go on the record on where you stand on fighting extreme poverty and global disease that affect the one billion people around the world.
Alleviating suffering and tackling the root causes of global poverty will be [...]

African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007

I’m not sure how/when I decided to just dump action alerts on here, but I since I’ve been too busy in the real world to write something about life here–I just want to make sure that you’re keeping up with the latest needs in social action and activism!— As you may know, the African Health Capacity [...]

DO SOMETHING!

I think you should do something. I do not expect everyone to go off and spend time/their entire life living in a mud hut without running water and electricity (though you might be surprised how much you like it). You are not expected to quit your job and go and work for one of these [...]

Suggestion Box

Kisumu and Kisii, Western Kenya
HIV/AIDS care and treatment is free for all Kenyans who need such care. However, apparently it is a popular belief by the medical staff that manage the patients that the staff should be paid better–so they collect an “unofficial fee” from the patients that they then pocket. So officially there is [...]

Waiting in The Nyanza “Russian” Hospital

Kisumu, Kenya
Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya, but feels more like a sleepy town in the middle of no where. (I keep needing to redefine where “the middle of no where” is located, because once you’ve been to The Middle Of Nowhere, it is no longer a Nowhere but a Somewhere. Like since [...]