Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown): Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health. From the IMF's Finance & Development, an article on governing global health: How better coordination can advance global health and improve value for money; here are three points of view on how the global health system can be improved; and a profile of Harvard economist Michael Kremer, who has helped pioneer the creation of a new instrument to boost the development of vaccines by securing advance promises to pay for them. The introduction Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival by Joao Biehl. The soul of a new vaccine: A controversial effort to stop malaria zeroes in on mosquitoes and the parasites that live inside themThe Times hears a WHO: An accidentally broken embargo causes the World Health Organization to engage in sanction overkill. When a spoonful of sugar won't do: Wanted — Medicine for a group whose voice is still too small to be hear. Is the U.S. population behaving healthier? A look at what has happened to the population's health behaviors over time and what the future may hold.
