Global Health Ideas is really coming along as a quality resource for any students of, appropriately enough, global health.  The principal contributors are Amar, Jaspal, Farzaneh, and Ben, all graduate students pursuing what seem like worthwhile and fascinating projects.

These four really pile it on, in a good way, with reporting on the the latest developments in healthcare.  My favorite section is the case study page of the site.  We have thought about creating a resource like this at Asia Health Care Blog but have never gotten around to actually putting it together.  A particularly stellar read on the case study collection is Base of Pyramid Case studies from Michigan University.

For another brisk read, check out an excellent article by Farzaneh on stock-outs of essential medicines across Africa.  Like Farzaneh, I too, got to see this unfortunate phenomenon first hand when I was abroad in Botswana.  The simple truth is that the black market is too tempting a target for people who live on meager sums of money -  being able to sell medicine for a dollar on the black market is enough of an incentive to empty the drawers of pharmacies.    Even internationally praised organizations like the Kenya-based Healthstores ran into  problems with its medicinal stocks.

Anyhow, go and click through to their blog and help make our website look important.