CDC Continues To Support Global Efforts To Prevent Road Traffic Injuries November 21, 2016 News Summary CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: Choose the Road to Zero Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths Erin K. Sauber-Schatz, lead of the Transportation Safety Team in the CDC’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, recognizes the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims and highlights the CDC’s support of the U.N. and WHO’s…
New Report Tracks Progress On Global Health Commitments, Finds Most Funders Met Or Exceeded Targets November 21, 2016 News Summary Humanosphere: Report: Global health funders (mostly) following through on their promises Humanosphere journalist Lisa Nikolau discusses findings from Global Citizen’s recently released Global Citizen Health Accountability report, which “tracks the progress of 43 separate commitments, from efforts to eradicate polio to vaccinating against malaria. Thirty-four of the commitments have met…
Global Fund Board Launches Search For New Executive Director November 21, 2016 News Summary Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Global Fund Launches Search for Next Executive Director “The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has launched a search process to find an executive director to begin work in 2017. At a Board meeting held on 16…
Aidspan Publishes New Issue Of ‘Global Fund Observer’ November 21, 2016 News Summary Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 300 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter features articles on various topics including decisions that were made at last week’s Board meeting; a report by the Global Fund’s executive…
News Outlets Examine How U.S. Science Might Fare Under Trump Administration November 18, 2016 News Summary The Atlantic: Who Will Advise Trump on Science? “In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed physicist H. Guyford Stever as the first Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). … His current counterpart John Holdren, formerly a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University, has performed the same…
West African Countries Introduce Strategic Plans To Address Human, Animal, Environmental Health To Prevent Disease Outbreaks November 18, 2016 News Summary The Guardian: West Africa to target human and animal health together to fight Ebola and Zika “West African leaders have agreed a new approach to infectious diseases in an attempt to avert any repetition of the disastrous Ebola outbreak. Human, animal, and environmental health will all be considered together, and…
On World Toilet Day, Many Continue To Lack Access To Safe, Private Sanitation Facilities November 18, 2016 News Summary Devex: On World Toilet Day, what progress has been made on sanitation facilities? “Sanitation is not sexy. But World Toilet Day is an annual reminder of just how vital it is for health, human rights, and even economic development. … Some 167 of 183 countries do not have universal coverage…
With Funding Secured, Malaria Vaccine Pilots Set To Begin In Africa In 2018, WHO Says November 18, 2016 News Summary Reuters: WHO says funds secured for Africa pilots of world’s first malaria vaccine “Funding for phase one of pilot deployments of the world’s first malaria vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa has been secured and immunization campaigns will begin in 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday…” (Kelland, 11/17). U.N.…
Puerto Rico Expects 1K Fewer Births In 2016 Due In Part To Zika Virus, Official Says November 18, 2016 News Summary Wall Street Journal: Puerto Rico Births Projected to Decline “Puerto Rico is expecting about 1,000 fewer babies to be born this year than originally forecast, due in part to the Zika virus, a government official said Thursday. … Birth data offer potential clues about how women of childbearing age across…