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Blogging For The Good Of The World

2 November, 2007 (15:39) | blogging, BlogHer, healthcare, NOW, SCHIP, women | By: Catherine Morgan

This is a post from cooper and emily at BlogHerBlogging for Good in the World

Here’s a question, “Why do some global health initiatives get LOTS of attention while others get so little?”  Put another way, why does so much of the world’s resources go to HIV/AIDS and immunizations, and so little go to maternal health, malnutrition or pneumonia?

Jeremy Schiffman answered the question in an article he wrote for The Lancet and in his presentation at the Women Deliver conference that caused a buzz when he determined why the safe motherhood initiative, at work since 1987, has gotten so little traction.

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