Recent Posts
- Illinois Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against HIV/AIDS Nonprofit
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Budget That Cuts $52M From HIV/AIDS Programs
- Efforts Underway In Namibia To Treat Pediatric HIV
- HIV/AIDS Education Project Targeting Pennsylvania Black Women Examined
- Also In Global Health News: Uganda Male Circumcision; Malaria Vaccine; Potential Global Fund Grant In Cambodia; PMTCT Of HIV In Botswana
Random Posts
- Only Drop-In Needle Exchange Center In Minnesota Closes Due To Lack Of Funding
- Baltimore Churches Participate In Program Providing HIV Testing To Residents
- Why Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk
- South Africa Launches HIV/AIDS Vaccine Trial
- Global Monitoring System Will Tell Whether HIV-Reduction Goals For 2015 Will Be Met
- Also In Global Health News: Children HIV Center In Rwanda; New Cholera Cases In Zimbabwe; Maternal Mortality In Pakistan
- Scientists Examine HIV's Effect On Immune System
- University Of Utah Researchers Testing Gel That May Help Prevent Spread Of HIV
- Nurse Researchers And Educators Reveal The New Faces Of HIV/AIDS
- No More 'Bottom' Of The Class Thanks To New THT Campaign, UK
Prescription AIDS Drugs
Contact Us
Foreign Policy Examines ‘Philanthrocapitalism’ Trend
March 20th, 2010
| Patient / Public: |  |
|
| Health Professional: |  |
3 (1 votes) |
| Article Opinions: | 0 posts |
Foreign Policy examines “a revolutionary idea for how to remake charity in the 21st century [that] is taking off: philanthrocapitalism.” The magazine writes: “Unlike their colleagues in government bureaucracies and tried-and-true NGOs, the philanthrocapitalists are a nimble, business-minded stock.”
According to Foreign Policy, “These new, entrepreneurial players … represent a chance to give a much-needed boost to the effectiveness of aid. They can take risks that governments cannot, breaking free from old orthodoxies and conventional wisdoms.”
The article reports on Bill Gates, “the leader of the pack,” and his work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund “research into diseases that have been neglected by the drug market for their zero-profit potential; conditions such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis are prevalent in impoverished regions where few can afford drugs or vaccines. Now, Gates is moving into agricultural research, poised to take on the global food crisis.”
Foreign Policy highlights the work of former President Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, “the world’s premier marketplace for philanthropy”; how microfinance is benefiting from “capitalism rethink”; and that “[p]hilanthrocapitalism is even making inroads in slow-moving Washington” (Bishop/Green, 12/09).
The magazine also published a list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers” featuring the “100 minds that mattered most in the year.” The list features several people involved in global health-related work, including: former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gates, CARE’s Helene Gayle, the State Department’s Anne-Marie Slaughter, the World Bank’s Robert Zoellick and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and others (12/09).
This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org.
© Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.
Related posts:
- CQ Examines House Foreign Affairs Committee Outline To Overhaul U.S. Foreign Aid Patient / Public: Health Professional: Article Opinions: 0 posts...
- Politico Examines Retraction, Resubmission Of HHS HIV Immigration Policy Patient / Public: Health Professional: Article Opinions: Under the...
- Africaid Welcomes The Launch Today Of The Foreign Policy Centre’s Report - Women And Children First: Leadership And The HIV & AIDS Crisis In Africa The report, which was launched by Development Minister Ivan Lewis...
- TIME Examines Voluntary Airline Tax That Aims To Fund Global Health Projects Patient / Public: Health Professional: Article Opinions: 0 posts...
- FY2010 State And Foreign Ops Bill Expected To Move On The Hill This Month Patient / Public: Health Professional: Article Opinions: 0 posts...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
No Comments »
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
Leave a comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.