Chronic hepatitis is another example of huge health disparity with little funding. Globally, more than 500M people are infected by HBV or BCV, mostly in Asia and Africa. But, funding to chronic hepatitis is minimal compared to HIV and other high-profile diseases. It does not even get mentioned in this article. US HHS has issued action plan to fight chronic hepatitis this year. Hopefully, this new focus from HHS will help increase funding interest in this area from private foundations. The new National Partnership for Action to end health disparities has made a great start in forming public-private partnership, but it needs to reach out to the philanthropy community to make the disparity problem more visible and understandable.
A Great Article! And I applaud you beginning a discussion on this subject, long over due.
It is time we looked the “gift horse in the eye”. These mega global private family operating foundations such as Gates and Rockefeller, operate under the radar screen and draw less scrutiny that the average smaller 5013c ngos. They are, in fact, corporations operating under the guise of a 5013c. They have a corporate mindset and operate as such for control and domination with the associated pr spin. Their investments reflect their sentiments:
“Bill Melinda Gates Foundation Trust Portfolio - 2011 Stock Picks and Performances” http://ow.ly/7yLj7.
Hardly “Socially Responsible”, “sustainable” or CSR.
Additionally, their programs are often trojan horses for their large donors and corporate partners: BigPharma; BigAg; the pesticide/chemical industries; and governments.
“Bill Gates and His $10 Billion Vaccine Scam | Foreign Policy Journal “http://ow.ly/7yLt4
They promote and push Big Agriculture and genetically modified food farming into developing and emerging nations taking with the attending huge pesticide/herbicides needed to grow these crops via Monsanto and Syngenta, the ag machinery business; and here there is the issue of patenting of all agriculture seed:
“How Bill Gates, Syngenta and Rockefeller Became Custodians of the Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault” http://ow.ly/7yLom. I could go on…
“Bill Gates, Monsanto hijack ‘humanitarian aid’ efforts to push GMO agenda” http://ow.ly/7yLrc
It is time we seriously questioned the motives and strings attached when these mega “philanthropies” promote their programs as “humanitarian” They invest billions of dollars in research but for whom, and whose interest and whose ownership?
A frontal indepth investigation is needed of how “humanitarian”, “socially responsible” and locally concerned these mega global foundations really are. As I said earlier, I question their motives when they act as trojan horses for their corporate and government interests. And that’s the problem. They front for the USA Government to expand and penetrate markets of interest…#BigPharma, Big Agriculture and the USDA in particular. Who then, is going to exercise oversight and rein in the horses?
There are so many small ngos out there working at the local level with the local needs, doing great work and struggling for funds. I find the whole game rather sickening.
Again, Thank you for starting a discussion that is long overdue.
i completely agree with what the article says. Other issue is that any small project or any individual focusing on some X Y or Z protein of HIV which has absolutely no scope to be implemented practically gets funded. But if there is someone genuinely doing something great for what one may call as “Non-popular diseases” do not get anything even after a lot of struggle. That is what we call a real bad situation that needs to be changed.
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BY AJ Chen, National Partnership for Action to end he
ON November 17, 2011 12:44 PM
Chronic hepatitis is another example of huge health disparity with little funding. Globally, more than 500M people are infected by HBV or BCV, mostly in Asia and Africa. But, funding to chronic hepatitis is minimal compared to HIV and other high-profile diseases. It does not even get mentioned in this article. US HHS has issued action plan to fight chronic hepatitis this year. Hopefully, this new focus from HHS will help increase funding interest in this area from private foundations. The new National Partnership for Action to end health disparities has made a great start in forming public-private partnership, but it needs to reach out to the philanthropy community to make the disparity problem more visible and understandable.
BY Pam Jacob
ON November 19, 2011 01:26 AM
A Great Article! And I applaud you beginning a discussion on this subject, long over due.
It is time we looked the “gift horse in the eye”. These mega global private family operating foundations such as Gates and Rockefeller, operate under the radar screen and draw less scrutiny that the average smaller 5013c ngos. They are, in fact, corporations operating under the guise of a 5013c. They have a corporate mindset and operate as such for control and domination with the associated pr spin. Their investments reflect their sentiments:
“Bill Melinda Gates Foundation Trust Portfolio - 2011 Stock Picks and Performances” http://ow.ly/7yLj7.
Hardly “Socially Responsible”, “sustainable” or CSR.
Additionally, their programs are often trojan horses for their large donors and corporate partners: BigPharma; BigAg; the pesticide/chemical industries; and governments.
“Bill Gates and His $10 Billion Vaccine Scam | Foreign Policy Journal “http://ow.ly/7yLt4
They promote and push Big Agriculture and genetically modified food farming into developing and emerging nations taking with the attending huge pesticide/herbicides needed to grow these crops via Monsanto and Syngenta, the ag machinery business; and here there is the issue of patenting of all agriculture seed:
“How Bill Gates, Syngenta and Rockefeller Became Custodians of the Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault” http://ow.ly/7yLom. I could go on…
“Bill Gates, Monsanto hijack ‘humanitarian aid’ efforts to push GMO agenda” http://ow.ly/7yLrc
It is time we seriously questioned the motives and strings attached when these mega “philanthropies” promote their programs as “humanitarian” They invest billions of dollars in research but for whom, and whose interest and whose ownership?
A frontal indepth investigation is needed of how “humanitarian”, “socially responsible” and locally concerned these mega global foundations really are. As I said earlier, I question their motives when they act as trojan horses for their corporate and government interests. And that’s the problem. They front for the USA Government to expand and penetrate markets of interest…#BigPharma, Big Agriculture and the USDA in particular. Who then, is going to exercise oversight and rein in the horses?
There are so many small ngos out there working at the local level with the local needs, doing great work and struggling for funds. I find the whole game rather sickening.
Again, Thank you for starting a discussion that is long overdue.
BY Nimi Vashi
ON February 8, 2012 10:19 PM
i completely agree with what the article says. Other issue is that any small project or any individual focusing on some X Y or Z protein of HIV which has absolutely no scope to be implemented practically gets funded. But if there is someone genuinely doing something great for what one may call as “Non-popular diseases” do not get anything even after a lot of struggle. That is what we call a real bad situation that needs to be changed.