Global health research is mired by inequities, some of which are linked to current
approaches to research funding. The role of funders and donors in achieving greater equity …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), once thought to be confined primarily to industrialized
nations, has emerged as a major health threat in developing countries. Cardiovascular …

The term 'social innovation'is used to describe a broad range of organizational and inter-
organizational activity that is ostensibly designed to address the most deep-rooted …

Executive summary Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution
of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health …

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor
and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the …

In recent years the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has emerged as this era's most
renowned, and arguably its most influential, global health player. A century ago, the …

Point of care (PoC) diagnostics are at the focus of government initiatives, NGOs and
fundamental research alike. In high-income countries, the hope is to streamline the …

Parasites found in the human gastrointestinal tract can be largely categorized into two
groups, protozoa and helminths. The soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides …

In 2006, an article in the Economist magazine introduced the term “philanthrocapitalism” to
describe a trend sweeping philanthropic institutions: the tendency for a new breed of donors …

Elite philanthropy—voluntary giving at scale by wealthy individuals, couples and families—is
intimately bound up with the exercise of power by elites. This theoretically oriented review …