Charlie Rose Science Series: Global Health

with Peter Hotez, Jeffrey Sachs, Tonya Villafana, Paul Nurse and Ann Veneman
in Science & Health, Current Affairs
on Monday, October 29, 2007 * * * * *

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Charlie Rose Science Series: Global Health. Improving global health is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. A panel of experts discuss the worst health crises in the third world and what we have to do to solve them.

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    1. aya9388  08/11/2009 12:16 AM Report

      We the Youths are watching! www.globemed.org

    2. Tukam Dixon  12/31/2007 05:08 AM Report

      Well great show~but this seems to simply appear like a show! If THE YOUTHS COULD WATCH THIS! Then Sir Paul Nurs's conclusion could be really supported! It needs to get an attention widely like any fun thing that takes YOUTHS watching PORN and stupid visions online the so called wellness!

      Devise means! I would be glad to HELP in a far reaching MOVE!

      THANK YOU!

    3. chads  11/06/2007 04:06 PM Report

      thank you.

    4. Marianne deJesus  10/31/2007 08:37 PM Report

      I comment as a lay critic interested in moving the global health agenda forward. First, have Nurse produce the series. Specific recommendations: add context so US (and other) audiences understand the implications of complicity; suggest timelines for scientific developments; and, most importantly, illustrate successful models for getting the science out of the lab/private sector and into communities on a sustainable basis.

    5. doyl  10/31/2007 05:57 PM Report

      how/where can I contribute to the purchase of bed nets to protect children in need?

    6. Alan Fenwick  10/31/2007 09:56 AM Report

      Great discussion, and to respond to Matt S., Jeff Sachs mnay be an economist but he sure has taken the issue of global health on board, and is a great advocate. Charlie and Sir Paul are right to be optimistic, thanks to the efforts of poeple like Peter Hotez and Jeff Sachs - Alan F.

    7. Matt S  10/30/2007 08:28 PM Report

      Mr. Sachs doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to antiretrovirals, and his statements are totally unfounded. The emergence and prevelance of HIV strains resistant to antiretroviral inhibitors is a real problem. Patient noncompliance and poorly designed/random antiviral regimens will result in HIV infections that are no longer treatable. Patient compliance can't be expected without strict medical supervision because antiretroviral side effects are nasty and painful. Regimens consisting of cocktail combinations of antiretrovirals are designed on and INDIVIDUAL basis involving the analysis of the viral genome isolated from patient samples. This guy is an economist, not a scientist or medical doctor. He really needs to consult an HIV expert before coming up with ideas on how he's going to solve the HIV problem, because what he proposes would only create new, worse problems.

    8. Bruce  10/30/2007 05:05 PM Report

      I was disappointed, but not surprised, to hear the pro-vaccine crowd pushing their agenda upon the world's poor. As a journalist, it would have been nice to see Mr. Rose ask the panel about any financial ties (i.e. conflicts of interest) to these vaccine companies they lauded.

      Where were the alternative health practitioners? Why were those groups opposing mass vaccination of their people given such short shrift? Where is their voice?

      I see that Pfizer provides financial support to the "CR Science Series"--so I guess I just anwered my own question.

      I feel like watching "Syriana" again.

    9. Kevin Gilson  10/30/2007 03:29 PM Report

      The show on global health was excellent, providing a variety of informed and expert views. I was struck by the fact that we seem to know what to do and we seem to have a path that was elucidated by our world leaders in 2000. We seem to have a vacuum of leadership which reminded me of Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan's book Execution, The Discipline of Getting Things Done. The more I look at business leaders and plans for business the more I agree with Larry (I was an AlliedSignal employee some years ago) that if we can't execute the plans then we will have no impact. You might get Larry to talk about this in relation to global health problems.

    10. Cheryl Thurber  10/30/2007 02:54 PM Report

      Outstanding program. I alerted several other people to watch this. I caught it in the middle of the night and I have watched additional broadcasts.

      It was nice to end this on an optimistic note.

      How about exploring the issue of population changes? You mentioned this near the end. IT is certainly impacted by health changes and is related to environmental pressures.

    11. mike archer  10/30/2007 01:35 PM Report

      i was truly delighted to watch the participation of a fellow Caricom native,Dr.Tonya Villafana,in

      today's Oak Table discussions. People of the

      Caribbean salute you, Charlie! to quote Harry

      Belafonte "there's goodness in it". and neither

      Oak nor the Work shall come to nought.

    12. Jacqueline Carroll, Amazon Promise  10/30/2007 10:36 AM Report

      Great discussion! Those of us working for the health of the poor in third world countries are grateful to the giants like the Gates Foundation. Many of us in the smaller organizations are working on the front lines every day to improve the health & education of the poor in order to break the cycle of poverty...by providing education and much needed medicines to those with no access.

      Thank you.

    13. Shannon  10/30/2007 04:15 AM Report

      I was so glad to have seen the conversation on global health. People take note on how one doctor's passion to save a small island village in the Mentawai Islands (which is located off the coast of Western Sumatra) has made a huge difference and is saving lives everyday from preventable diseases such as Malaria. Dr. Dave Jenkins founder of Surf Aid International, a non-profit, is the prefect example of how small organizations with minimal funds and man power can and do make a difference.

    14. Kathy  10/30/2007 12:21 AM Report

      Excellent program summarizing the key issues in global health. Time well spent in viewing.

      Thank you.

    15. Jeremy Jamros  10/29/2007 11:57 PM Report

      I know that the situation isn't no were near as bad as the rest of the world. However, you don't have to go far from home to see poverty and lack of basic nessecities(spelled wrong). When fellow Americans are so pasionate about the "third world" problems it makes the disadvantaged people in this country feel forgotten. And a bit bitter....do you blame them?