Fuente: Reuters U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will announce on Wednesday a $40 billion launch to a plan to save the lives of 16 million women and children over the next five years

Fuente: The Seattle Times (Seattle Time) The Business of Giving. Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation. A fresh look at the economy of good intentions.

Fuente: The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Philanthropy) A fledgling international health project backed by the world's richest man, the Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim...

Fuente: Adeline D, RAND; Xavier Giné; David McKenzie The majority of economic decisions are forward looking and thus involve expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health

Fuente: Health Affairs Health Affairs. December 2010 - Volume 29, Number 12

Fuente: RBF Interview with Amanda Glassman on Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs)

Fuente: London Health Observatory To support Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, the Association of Public Health Observatories and Department of Health have developed the Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit. This is designed to assist evidence-based local service planning and commissioning, including Joint Strategic Needs Assessments.

Fuente: NPR

Seven decades after public health officials thought they'd eradicated dengue fever, the disease has once again become a scourge in Florida. More than 90 cases have been reported there since 2009. The stakes are high: The same mosquito that carries dengue is also a vector for yellow fever. 

Fuente: Goni, Edwin; Lopez, J. Humberto; Serven, Luis income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into income inequality depends...

Fuente: NPR Scientists in Australia are using a bacterium to try to stop a deadly virus in its tracks.