Comments on: Slanted bloggers and donors http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/slanted-bloggers-and-donors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slanted-bloggers-and-donors Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: john b http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/slanted-bloggers-and-donors/#comment-115092 john b Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:52:58 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=688#comment-115092 That’s nearly a great chart, but it’d be a lot more useful if you addressed the issue you raise above by normalising funding for population.

There are 3 million HIV+ people in Zimbabwe (so funding of $17 per head), 300,000 HIV+ people in Swaziland (so funding of $200 per head), 2 million in Kenya (so funding of $500 per head), and 6 million in Nigeria (so funding of $150 per head).

Taking out country size as a factor not only makes the chart more relevant (we don’t care about countries – we care about people) but also brings the Zimbabwe example into even starker contrast…

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