Kaiser Family Foundation Data Note Assesses How Mexico City Policy Affects Provision Of Legal Abortion Services In U.S.-Assisted Countries May 4, 2017 News Summary Kaiser Family Foundation: What Is the Scope of the Mexico City Policy: Assessing Abortion Laws in Countries That Receive U.S. Global Health Assistance “On January 23, 2017, President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy requiring foreign NGOs to certify that they will not ‘perform or actively promote abortion…
‘Science Speaks’ Discusses Future Of Global Health Financing Event Hosted By KFF, CSIS May 4, 2017 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Future of global health funding uncertain during time of great need, panelists say Rabita Aziz, policy research coordinator at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses an event hosted last month by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies…
PLOS Blogs Features Interviews With WHO Director General Candidates May 4, 2017 News Summary PLOS Blogs’ “Your Say”: Where do the (3) candidates for the next WHO Director General stand on the most challenging global health issues of the decade? Anne-Emanuelle Birn, professor at the University of Toronto; Yogan Pillay, deputy director general in the South Africa Department of Health (writing in his personal…
WHO Releases 10-Year Review Report Chapter Focusing On HIV May 4, 2017 News Summary WHO: HIV: from a devastating epidemic to a manageable chronic disease This chapter of the WHO’s “Ten years in public health 2007-2017” report focuses on WHO’s role in the global AIDS response. “WHO’s standard-setting work helped make prevention and treatment more accessible, safe, effective, and efficient, and encouraged integrating HIV…
Global Community Must Do More To End ‘Impunity’ For Health Care Worker, Facility Attacks, Report Says May 3, 2017 News Summary Devex: ‘Staggering’ number of attacks on health care workers reported in 2016 “There was a ‘staggering’ — yet ultimately unknown — number of violent attacks on health care workers, patients, and facilities in 2016, stretching across at least 23 countries in conflict or states of political unrest, a new report…
31 U.S. Senators Send Letter To President Trump Urging Him To Cease ‘Despicable Attacks’ On Women’s Health, Rights May 3, 2017 News Summary Huffington Post: U.S. Senators Ask Trump To Stop Being Terrible For Women “A hundred days after an unprecedented number of women around the world marched to protest President Donald Trump, 31 U.S. senators penned a letter asking him to cease his ‘despicable attacks’ on women’s health and women’s rights. ‘Fears…
G20 Health Officials To Simulate Response To Potential Disease Outbreak At Upcoming Meeting May 3, 2017 News Summary Associated Press: Top Health Officials to Simulate Disease Outbreak Response “Top health officials from the 20 leading and emerging economies are planning to simulate their response to a possible global disease outbreak. A memo on the May 19-20 summit in Berlin states the meeting will include a four-hour ‘tabletop exercise’…
NIH To Receive $2B Increase Under Bipartisan Congressional Budget Deal May 3, 2017 News Summary Washington Post: Five big wins: Congress boosts medical science funding in key areas “Congress unveiled a bipartisan budget late Sunday that contains a number of welcome surprises for researchers who had been panicking since March, when President Trump proposed deep funding cuts for science and health. Under the deal, the…
HIV Researchers Discuss Prospect Of Ending AIDS At Fortune Brainstorm Health Meeting May 3, 2017 News Summary Fortune: Fortune Brainstorm Health 2017 Livestream “Our second Fortune Brainstorm Health conference is here! We kick things off on Tuesday, May 2 in San Diego, Calif., where we will convene a powerful community of leaders at the forefront of the revolution that is underway in 21st century health care…” (Nusca,…