Pick three If I could suggest just one thing you could do that would transform how 2014 goes for you, it would be this: Select 'three' colleagues, bosses, investors, employees, co-conspirators or family members that have an influence over how you do your work. [Choose people who care about you and what you produce.] Identify three books that challenge your status quo, business books that outline a new attitude/approach or strategy, or perhaps fiction or non-fiction that challenges … [Read more...]
A Comprehensive Response to Rural Women and Girls’ Economic Empowerment
March 1, 2012 by
A Comprehensive Response to Rural Women and Girls’ Economic Empowerment Speech delivered by UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet’s at CSW Side Event on ‘Accelerating progress towards the economic empowerment of rural women’, co-organized by UN Women, FAO, IFAD and WFP, Tuesday 28 February 2012. Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Heads of Delegations, Colleagues and Friends, Let me start by thanking FAO, IFAD and WFP for co-organizing … [Read more...]
HHS, Models: Tools to Improve Decision Making about HIV
August 1, 2011 by
For those of us who work in the HIV/AIDS field, the month of July was dominated by exciting HIV prevention news coming out of the International AIDS Society meeting in Rome. Results from the HPTN 052 study showed that early, compared to delayed, antiretroviral treatment resulted in a 96% reduction in HIV transmission to uninfected partners. The TDF2 study conducted by CDC in partnership with the Botswana Ministry of Health, found that a once-daily pill containing two anti-HIV drugs … [Read more...]
