Things I Like.

Here are some interesting posts / articles / videos that recently wandered onto my radar. Some may make it into my permanent links / videos pages; some may not.

• African aid: helpful or hazardous? - A look at the current structure of aid to Africa, and how it needs to change.

• The “Developing Country” Double Standard - (Partly) humorous take on the doublespeak involving 'developing' countries vs. 'developed' countries.

• Private finance is key to aid efforts - In 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières donations summed $1.1bn. Were it a country, MSF would have been the 2nd largest humanitarian donor after the US.

• “You can’t come here with European eyes” - A letter from Richard Dowden to John Humphreys on his recent trip to Liberia.

• Simon Moss - Africa Is Poor and 5 Other Myths

• Why Africa must make its own drugs

• Global Health Service Partnership - A very interesting approach to capacity building coupled with health care supply.

• The avoidable crisis of maternal death. - A shocking infographic from MSF.

• Female African Entrepreneurship - A fantastic infographic from the World Bank (via other folks).

• Africa needs research HR strategy - Africa's health research capacity remains uncoordinated, small-scale and driven from outside the continent.