@AU_AMA_ In case helpful as additional context, I recently wrote about the African Medicines Agency for @indevmag, which you can read here: https://t.co/WJjoOEyTEc
When I started working on projects to support young people who inject drugs in India, I had so many questions about why we’ve made it hard to get on treatment when there’s decent evidence that what we know works.
Grateful I can now bug you all w the same Qs, thx to @indevmag!
Of the many crises that we hv*, we wrap up the first @indevmag issue with @akshaygn01 writing on opioid addiction in India.
https://t.co/7pDstcqzSg
The medical sol'n, as for many of these issues, is well known. Read to see what the adoption bottlenecks are.
*BGD: Ola, measles.
India has more people who misuse opioids than any other country in the world. Less than 2% of them receive evidence-based treatment.
@akshaygn01 explains how this happened - and how to fix it: https://t.co/Bat9XaLcqk
Is it nuts to give cash to the poor without strings attached?
That’s not a rhetorical question; it’s the headline the New York Times ran the first time they covered GiveDirectly.
Last month on VoxDev, we reposted @indevmag's first piece by @PaulFNiehaus: https://t.co/GiFla1TfQO
The US approved tenofovir for HIV treatment in 2001. It took another decade to be used in most of sub-Saharan Africa.
The African Medicines Agency is attempting to reduce delays like this. @EnlliMcA explains both the promises and pitfalls in @indevmag: https://t.co/eX0XJ76Th3
.@indevmag and the EA forum are hosting an AMA this week! Drop by, discuss the pieces so far, ask the authors (who will be around!) or me anything. https://t.co/RY6NxR0i9N
I think the current anti-migrant sentiment is a temporary one* and the long arc of history always bends toward more exchange of people.
Today's @indevmag piece reminds us why we need such exchange and ways to facilitate it.
*visit the Ellis island museum. we hv been here before.
Where’s My Ministry For Emigration?
Today on @indevmag, @charlesjkenny writes about the new age of mass migration we are entering, the opportunities that this presents to origin countries, and how they can take advantage of them.
Read here: https://t.co/A7YJVouw9L
This week in @indevmag: in 2014, Jakarta was crowned the world's most congested city. In the last decade, it has also added *ten million* new residents - a perfect recipe for yet more gridlock.
And yet the traffic has improved. Nithin Coca explains how: https://t.co/k49g0OsuII
Japanese investment into commuter rail and subways is underrated
Japan also funded the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and provided substantial technical expertise
Via @indevmag
Back in 2015-16*, in Dhaka, I used to take a 2-hr walk back from the office in the evening because it would have taken longer by any motorized transport.
So this is close to my heart; dropping tomorrow @indevmag.
*I hear it has probably gotten worse.
🌏 Why the best way of supporting developing countries is through export-driven entrepreneurship, global market integration and reliable payrolls
https://t.co/NyRzYjordn
This week, Daniel Yu - founder of Africa's largest B2B company - argues young people who are interested in development should consider starting a business instead of working in aid: https://t.co/AzazPr43vn