Daily Archives: 7 March 2012

Rethinking the use of the word ‘simple’ in global health (II) – asking the right questions

I am not saying this is going to be all-time best solution (ha! ors pun!) but it does seem to be the result of asking the right questions, which include, if this (ors(+zinc)) is such a ‘simple’ intervention (in this case, meaning low-tech and cheap), why is not being taken-up? It is not clear toContinueContinue reading “Rethinking the use of the word ‘simple’ in global health (II) – asking the right questions”

Contraception, women, society – why are we (still) having this conversation in the US???

Plenty has been said about this, so I am going to highlight the points of a few others. but the whole frame of the present national media and political conversation is infuriating. Forgetting all the convolutions involved in saying that, in proposing an insurance mandate, anyone is asking anyone to use their taxpayer dollars toContinueContinue reading “Contraception, women, society – why are we (still) having this conversation in the US???”