I just discovered the TED conference talks. Here are a few of the talks related to healthcare in the developing world:

Emily Oster: What do we really know about the spread of AIDS? - Mar 2007
(***informative talk! Oster looks at the epidemic from an economic perspective)


James Nachtwey: Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic - Oct 2008
(Nachtwey speaks about the photographs that appear on the awareness website XDRTB.org)


Kristen Ashburn: Heartrending pictures of AIDS - Oct 2008
(Photographs of AIDS sufferers in Zimbabwe, where the HIV prevalence rate is 35%)


Joe DeRisi: Hunting the next killer virus - Jan 2009
(Using nanotechnology to detect multiple viruses at once.. and understand viral evolution.. and find the next KILLER virus!)