Unpacking Development

I meant to post this for a while, but didn’t get to it until now…it was still bike season when I read it! In her 2008 book, The Wisdom Of Whores, Elizabeth Pisani manages to piss everyone off.  The result is a compelling read about what she refers to as the “bureaucrats, brothels and the [...]

One of my favourite things about my apartment building is the informal recycling program in the lobby.  There’s a certain corner where you can leave behind slightly used goods for use by the next person, or find treasures of your own. In a weird coincidence, the other day, as I leafed through a pile of [...]

A recap seems to be the thing to do in the blogosphere, although I’m a few days too late.  I got my inspiration here: Blood and Milk and Global Health Report.  So, here are the top five most popular posts on my blog in its first year – its a surprising mix! Ethiopian Nativity of [...]

There is lots going on in Toronto this week, from a Fair Trade Holiday Shopping Festival to a Schools Without Borders music event to a Cafe Scientifique night on Gender Inequities in Health.  As well, in the lead up to World AIDS Day on December 1, there are a lot of AIDS-related events for you [...]

Today I was at the first day of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network’s 2008 Research Conference.  The organization is a big funder of AIDS research in Ontario and it was great to check out what people are doing to learn about the pandemic in my ‘hood. Sometimes I’m amazed at how broad the approach is [...]

The Student University Network for Social and International Health (SUNSIH) Conference started this Friday with a documentary screening of Angels in the Dust, a film about a group that supports orphans in South Africa.  I’ve seen several heart reandering call-to-action docs over the past few years, but this one stood out because of its focus [...]

At the AIDS Conference in August, one of the speakers in the Lancet Series on HIV Prevention Jeffrey O’Malley said something along the lines of “I’m amazed that the inventors of Safe Sex have yet to win a Nobel Prize.”  Well, it isn’t quite the inventors of safe sex, but it is exciting that some [...]

This weekend I joined two friends and walked in the Toronto AIDS Walk for Life.  Toronto has no shortage of runs for a cause — every couple of weeks I see one on my way to work on a Sunday morning.  There’s the CIBC Run for the Cure, the Super Cities Walk for MS…  Clearly, [...]

One of the questions that I keep getting asked is how the most recent AIDS conference was from the last one. I met some people at the conference who had been to the last 7 or 8, so they’d be better at describing the conference’s evolution, but here are a few thoughts from me. First [...]

Was anyone making condom brooches? I am alwasy a big fan of those! By katej on Sep 15, 2008 Yea! More details about the Condom Project here: http://www.thecondomproject.org/condomart-pins.html Post a Comment Name (required) E-mail (will not be published) (required) Website