For some perspective on medical rationing in the US, we invited Dan Wikler. He’s an ethics professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and former staff ethicist for the World Health Organization. You can join the conversation with Dan Wikler and Sheri Fink at theworld.org/rationinghealth
The discussion is live through next week.
The rationing of health care is not always obvious or explicit. Implicit factors may determine who receives care and who does not.One such factor may have imposed a form of unintentional rationing on AIDS care in the Southern African nation of Zambia, as David Baron reports.
Mannasseh Phiri is a part-time DJ in Zambia. His selections for us today is a recent CD by Zimbabwean musician Oliver Mtukudzi. The album is called ‘Dairai.’
Some argue that the goal of medical rationing should be to focus resources where they will offer the greatest health benefit to the greatest number of people.That is the aim of the UK’s rationing plan but Britain’s plan is now under fire. Patrick Cox has part 2 of our series. (Photo: Mark Wessels)
In South Africa, the government puts limits on life-sustaining kidney dialysis, and that puts medical professionals in a difficult position. They have to decide who lives and who dies. Reporter Sheri Fink has the first in a four-part series on health care rationing around the world.
As medical costs rise and budgets tighten, some fear the United States will be forced to ration health care. Starting Tuesday, PRI’s The World will take a global look at the controversial issue with perspectives from four countries.
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For the Global Hit, Zambian deejay Manasseh Phiri tells us about “Witch” – a band from Zambia that was popular in the 1970′s and whose music is being reissued now on CD. Download MP3
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It looks like an ordinary cargo container. You know the kind they use for shipping. However, this one’s got a fully functioning, solar-powered Internet cafe inside of it. Computer Aid International will be field testing these cafes over the next few months. You can hear more about that story, and many others, in this week’s Technology Podcast. (Photo: Computer Aid International)
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A year ago, inflation in Zimbabwe was a mind-blowing 231 million percent. (And that was before the government stopped bothering to update the figure!) A new government came to power in February and life has much improved. The Zimbabwe dollar, or Zim dollar, is gone. But that has spawned problems of its own.
Stories from Zimbabwe and other parts of Africa, Bangladesh, India and Peru on Part II of this two-part podcast about econonics and business in the developing world.
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A company in Zambia is assembling bicycle frames made of sustainable bamboo for sale in the United States. Reporter Jo Fidgen has the story.
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Finally, Technology Podcast 251 is ready for your earbuds. We have a great line-up. First, we hear about the “beatniks and little old ladies” who, quite literally, wove together the Apollo 11 computer systems 40 years ago. We’ll also take an in-depth look at the undersea fiber-optic cables that went live in East Africa, and how it might affect Internet access on the continent. And we’ll end with bamboo bicycles from Zambia.
WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS DISTURBING SOUNDS AND DESCRIPTIONS. In the African nation of Zambia, abortion is legal, but few medical clinics offer the procedure and women therefore try it themselves. As a result, many women die from botched abortions. A hospital in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, aims to save women’s lives by making abortion safer and [...]
In the African nation of Zambia, abortion is legal, but few women realize it because abortion carries tremendous stigma and few medical clinics are prepared to offer the procedure. Rose Hoban visited a hospital in Lusaka. (contains graphic imagery)
