U.S. Investments In Global Public Health Are ‘Smart Foreign Policy’ November 16, 2015 News Summary Forbes: Our Opportunity Where Health and National Security Converge Bill Frist, former U.S. senator from Tennessee and chair of Hope Through Healing Hands “[Last] week, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and I released a report recommending a policy of strategic health diplomacy, inspired and informed by the success of…
Indonesian Fires Spreading Toxic Fumes Harmful To Human, Plant Health, Experts Say November 13, 2015 News Summary Thomson Reuters Foundation: Scientists warn of health damage from Indonesia’s haze fires “Toxic fumes from the Indonesian fires that have spread a choking haze across Southeast Asia may be doing more harm to human and plant health than officials have indicated, scientists measuring the pollution say…” (Tang, 11/10).
Social Mobilization Critical To Ending Polio, UNICEF Director Says November 13, 2015 News Summary Devex: Ending polio one community at a time “Social mobilization was the backbone of polio eradication efforts with health workers, combating polio ‘community by community by community,’ UNICEF Executive Director Tony Lake told Devex Impact associate editor Adva Saldinger in an exclusive interview. Understanding the community structure was crucial to…
Price Of Pfizer’s Childhood Pneumonia Vaccine Too High, MSF Says In Protest November 13, 2015 News Summary Al Jazeera America: MSF protests price of Pfizer pneumonia vaccine “Children in poor countries are going without pneumonia vaccine because of the high price of the shots, manufactured by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, members of humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) said at a rally Thursday outside Pfizer’s headquarters…
Women’s Health Advocates Say Slow Progress In Reducing Maternal Mortality Shows More Efforts Needed To End Preventable Deaths November 13, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: Calls for action over maternal deaths as U.N. figures show slow recent progress “The number of women dying in childbirth has dropped by almost 44 percent over the past 25 years, according to the latest U.N. figures. But women’s rights activists said the figures were disappointing…” (Ford, 11/12).
Progress Being Made To Close Gap In Contraceptives Access Among Women But More Effort Needed To Reach Goals, FP2020 Report Shows November 13, 2015 News Summary News outlets highlight findings from a Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) report released on Thursday, titled “Commitment to Action 2014-2015.” BBC News: Push to meet ‘shortfall’ in global contraceptives target “Plans to get contraceptives to millions more women in the world’s poorest countries are behind track, a report by campaigners and…
17M Lives Saved From Measles Since 2000; More Effort Needed To Broaden Vaccination Coverage, Reports Say November 13, 2015 News Summary News outlets report on new data on measles immunizations released by WHO for the Measles & Rubella Initiative, and published in the WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Report and the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Agence France-Presse: Measles vaccines save 17 mn lives since 2000, but progress stalled: WHO “Measles vaccines…
2.3M People In Central America Will Need Food Aid Due To El Niño Weather Pattern Extending Drought, U.N. Estimates November 13, 2015 News Summary U.N. News Centre: El Niño: 2.3 million Central Americans will need food aid, U.N. warns in latest alert “Some 2.3 million people in Central America will need food aid as the current El Niño weather pattern, one of the strongest on record, exacerbates a prolonged drought, the United Nations warned…
Partnership, Cooperation Improve Donor Impact, Effectiveness, AidData Survey Shows November 13, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: Which are the best aid donors? Governments have their say Duncan Green, senior strategic adviser at Oxfam Great Britain “…For years I’ve been moaning about how no one ever asks developing country governments to assess aid donors (rather than the other way around), and how no one publishes…