Get AIDS and Survive? An Introduction to ReThinkAid
In November of 2010, at a conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, I sat absorbing the complexities of what I was hearing about the state of global health. I was new to the field – at twenty-four I had a...
View ArticleWhat if women women came first?
In the world of international health aid, countless individuals are turned away from specialized hospitals for not being HIV-positive. Why? Because the majority of health aid is funneled into just...
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The Complexities of Education: a conversation with our intern, Biva
Here at ReThink we are general advocates for education and, in particular, girls’ education world-wide. At times we can get pretty idealistic about our beliefs – literacy, women’s empowerment – these...
View ArticleGet AIDS and Survive? The “Perverse” Effects of Aid
Hello All, We are proud to announce that our editorial, which holds valuable information regarding the foundation for our initiative and the state of global health aid, has been published in the...
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A Problematic Advertisment
Nicholas Druar and I spent some time looking into Smile Train for our recent editorial with David Egilman and Fernando Mora. The information we found on the company put our entire team on Smile Train...
View ArticleGiving During the Holiday Season: A New Perspective
Each year around this time inboxes fill up with requests for donations to various organizations, people in stores asking us for a few extra dollars, and holiday letters from various organizations...
View ArticleWhat We Shouldn’t Be Learning from Corporate Marketing
In 2010 Coca Cola teamed up with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in an effort to increase the delivery of essential medicines to wherever Coca Cola products were delivered....
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International Women’s Day: the beginning of a month of [re]thinking global...
Here at [re]think aid we occasionally chat about the ‘fourth wave’ of feminism and how it’s a global movement. In the past several years, it seems to us like we’ve seen an uprising – a kind of bubbling...
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Lancet Article Highlights Links between Corporations and Non-Communicable...
A few weeks ago, I posted an editorial about concerns with utilizing the methods of corporations such as Coca-Cola in health promotion. We are happy to report that recent research on behalf of the...
View ArticleThe Insidiousness of Coke & Kool-Aid
The Community Tool Box is an excellent resource from the University of Kansas for implementing community-based initiatives with community input and support. I’ve been spending a lot of time on this...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 years of PEPFAR? – rethinking approaches to combating HIV abroad
PEPFAR’s recent 10-year anniversary on May 27th was accompanied by a buzz of internet praise and support, some of which is summarized here. Ambassador Eric Goosby and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci daringly...
View ArticlePeter Buffet challenges philanthropic colonialism
Peter Buffet, son of Warren Buffet and chairman of the NoVo Foundation, wrote a notable opinion piece for the New York Times on “The Charitable-Industrial Complex” this July. As someone who has grown...
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