Editorial, Opinion Piece Discuss Deaths Of Women In Indian Sterilization Program, Access To Family Planning November 17, 2014 News Summary Financial Times: India should empower, not sterilize, women Editorial Board “…The [sterilization] tragedy … goes far beyond a one-off mistake. It stems from an endemic failure in India to adequately address the issue of women’s empowerment, particularly when it comes to sexual relations and child-rearing. … India’s addiction to sterilization…
Investing In National Health Care Systems Can Boost Economies November 17, 2014 News Summary CNN: Why health matters to economies Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health “There’s a well-understood correlation that as the economy of a country improves, so the health of its citizens improves. What may be less obvious is that the opposite is also true — improving the health…
U.S. Should Rethink Cuban Medical Defection Program November 17, 2014 News Summary New York Times: A Cuban Brain Drain, Courtesy of the U.S. Editorial Board “…It is incongruous for the United States to value the contributions of Cuban doctors who are sent by their government to assist in international crises like the 2010 Haiti earthquake while working to subvert that government by…
Laws Not Enough To End Female Genital Mutiliation November 17, 2014 News Summary New York Times: Fighting Female Genital Mutilation Mona Eltahawy, author “…Many international treaties designate female genital mutilation a violation of the human rights of girls and women. On Oct. 30, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, announced a global campaign to end it within a generation. … Laws are…
Blog Posts Address Various Aspects Of Ebola Epidemic November 17, 2014 News Summary U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Welcoming the G20’s Commitment To Stop Ebola and Strengthen Global Health Security Gayle Smith, special assistant to President Obama and senior director at the National Security Council, writes, “[The G20] communique signals a commitment on the part of the world’s largest and most powerful countries…
FHWC Releases Policy Recommendations On Improving Health Workforce November 17, 2014 News Summary Frontline Health Workers Coalition: Building a Resilient, Sustainable Health Workforce to Respond to Ebola and Other Future Threats FHWC recently released policy recommendations to address the “urgent need for increased support for frontline health workers and the systems that support them in the [West African] region and around the world”…
India’s Vaccine Delivery Scale Up Shows Commitment To Future Generations November 17, 2014 News Summary Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: A Commitment to India’s Children Raj Ghosh, deputy director of India vaccine delivery at the Gates Foundation India, discusses the Indian government’s plan to scale up pentavalent vaccine delivery to all states and introduce several other vaccines by 2015. The plan “is a…
House Foreign Affairs Committee Holds Ebola Hearing; Administration Officials, Members Of Congress Comment On Epidemic Responses, Funding November 14, 2014 News Summary News outlets report on comments on the U.S. and international responses to Ebola in West Africa from Obama administration officials and members of Congress at a House committee hearing and other events, as well as possible legislation on and emergency funding for the epidemic. CQ News: USAID’s Ebola Request Gets…
U.N. Strengthens Ebola Efforts In Rural West Africa, Calls For Overall Response Scale Up To Defeat Virus November 14, 2014 News Summary News outlets report on the U.N.’s Ebola efforts in rural areas and their call for the overall scaling up of the on-the-ground Ebola response in West Africa. Agence France-Presse: U.N. bolsters Ebola response in rural West Africa “Efforts to beat back Ebola in West Africa are shifting from cities to…