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August 24, 2009

Reflections on NYT Magazine Special Issue on Gender: Three Questions to Guide the New Crusade

This is a joint post with Molly Kinder and originally appeared on the Global Development: Views from the Center blog.

This week The New York Times Magazine is dedicated to a single theme: women. The main attraction of this special issue is a stirring essay by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who write passionately about the great moral, national security and economic development imperatives of investing in the world’s women and girls. The “women’s crusade” they call for seems already to have begun. A few pages beyond, an interview with Secretary Clinton heralds the start of a “new gender agenda” at the highest reaches of the U.S. foreign policy. Also noted is the growing philanthropic attention to the cause of women and girls – a trend that will be further evidenced next month, when the issue headlines at the annual (Bill) Clinton Global Initiative meetings in NYC.

Ruth Levine
August 24, 2009

Reflections on NYT Magazine Special Issue on Gender: Three Questions to Guide the New Crusade

This is a joint post with Molly Kinder.

This week The New York Times Magazine is dedicated to a single theme: women. The main attraction of this special issue is a stirring essay by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who write passionately about the great moral, national security and economic development imperatives of investing in the world’s women and girls. The “women’s crusade” they call for seems already to have begun. A few pages beyond, an interview with Secretary Clinton heralds the start of a “new gender agenda” at the highest reaches of the U.S. foreign policy. Also noted is the growing philanthropic attention to the cause of women and girls – a trend that will be further evidenced next month, when the issue headlines at the annual (Bill) Clinton Global Initiative meetings in NYC.

Ruth Levine
August 4, 2009

Will a New NIH-Funded Study Tell Us Whether Immediate AIDS Treatment Slows HIV Transmission?

Each year in Sub-Saharan Africa there are about 2-million new cases of HIV infection, most of whom would not need antiretroviral therapy (ART) under current guidelines for 8 to 12 more years. Since donors have not managed to place on treatment more than about half of those needing it each year, the 8 to 12 year lag between infection and need for treatment has been seen as a breathing space.

Mead Over
August 4, 2009

Dire Straits: Money for Treatment, Prevention for Free?

Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released a report of a study on the state of HIV Prevention in the U.S. This week, Drew Altman of the KFF shared his thoughts on the sorry state of spending at scale on prevention in the U.S., “despite the fact that the CDC determined in August of 2008 that the number of new HIV infections in the U.S.

Nandini Oomman
July 31, 2009

“Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me?”

This is a joint post with Rachel Nugent.

A new report from the US Census Bureau offers the surprising fact that in the next 30 years, the human population over 65 will double. In ten years, there will be more over-65s than under-fives. Old news, you say? Yes, in Italy, Japan, and Russia this is old news. In developing countries, it is new – and somewhat alarming. In 2008, 62 percent of all those aged 65 and over (313 million people) lived in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania. The elderly population in developing countries is growing twice as fast as in developed countries (on a not very small base in India and China, as it turns out. Those two countries account for 1/3 of the world’s aged population and 37% of the total global population.)

Danielle Kuczynski

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