Intergenerational Sex Among Older Men, Younger Women Driving HIV Epidemic In Southern Africa, Research Shows July 25, 2016 News Summary Agence France-Presse: ‘Sugar daddies’ and ‘blessers’: A threat to AIDS fight “…The man who infected [27-year-old Lebogang Motsumi] with [HIV] was a ‘sugar daddy’ or, in local parlance, a ‘blesser’ — an older man who ‘blesses’ a younger, often poorer girl with money and gifts and expects sex in return. The…
18M People In Southern Africa Expected To Need Food Aid By March Because Of El Niño’s Effects, WFP Warns July 25, 2016 News Summary NPR: The Race To Stop A Looming Food Disaster In Southern Africa “…[A] looming food crisis [is] expected to afflict at least seven countries across Southern Africa in the coming months. It’s projected that by next March as many as 18 million people will need food assistance. In Malawi alone,…
More Than One-Fifth Of U.S. Zika Cases Imported From Dominican Republic July 25, 2016 News Summary Kaiser Health News/PBS NewsHour: How a Caribbean island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases “…Visitors to the Dominican Republic account for more than a fifth of the confirmed Zika cases in the U.S. through mid-July, according to data from state health departments. New York, Florida, and California alone tally…
Children In Syria Most At Risk Among 5M People Without Sufficient Food, Water, Medicine; Government Airstrikes Hit 5 Clinics In Rebel-Held Areas July 25, 2016 News Summary Al Jazeera: As war rages on, Syrian children starving to death “…Hundreds of deaths have been reported from preventable causes in the area, and medics say there are around 40 children in a similarly perilous condition [of malnutrition]. Aid hardly reaches Hama, and when it does finally get through, products…
In Step Toward Africa Being Declared Polio-Free, Nigeria Marks 2 Years Without New Case Of Disease July 25, 2016 News Summary Agence France-Presse: Nigeria hails major step towards polio-free Africa “Nigeria on Sunday celebrated two years without a new case of polio, in a major stride towards Africa being declared free of the devastating disease. If no new case is reported by July 2017, Nigeria will be certified free of the…
Libyan Health System Collapsing Amid Conflict, Shortages Of Funding, Resources July 25, 2016 News Summary Reuters: Libyan health crisis sharpens as resources dwindle “…Libya’s health system [is] collapsing amid poor security, a funding crisis, and chronic shortages of staff and medicine. Problems only seem to have become more acute since a U.N.-backed government arrived in Tripoli in March aiming to end the armed conflict and…
CGD Blog Post Discusses 3 Key Takeaways From White House Global Development Summit July 25, 2016 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “Rethinking U.S. Development Policy”: My Three Takeaways on the White House Summit on Global Development Cindy Huang, visiting policy fellow at CGD, discusses three key takeaways from panelists who spoke at last week’s White House Summit on Global Development. She highlights the advancement of development as…
Global Health Community Should No Longer Ignore Mental Health, Especially Among Populations Affected By Conflict July 25, 2016 News Summary The Guardian: The global community is failing to address mental health Laila Soudi, researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of mental health at the Syrian American Medical Society, and Vikram Patel, Wellcome Trust principal research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-founder…
Cost Savings On Cancer Drug Could Enhance Colombian’s Right To Health, Long-Term Economic Development July 25, 2016 News Summary Huffington Post: Right To Health, Colombia And U.S. Congress Todd Howland, representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia “Recent memos allegedly leaked from the Colombian Embassy in Washington describe intense pressure by the pharmaceutical industry and its congressional allies to discourage Colombia’s efforts to half the…
Editorial, Opinion Pieces Discuss U.S. Congress’s Inaction On Emergency Funding For Zika Response July 25, 2016 News Summary Washington Post: The wrong way to fight disease Editorial Board “…It was irresponsible of Congress to leave town for the summer with President Obama’s $1.9 billion request [for emergency Zika funding] up in the air. It also underscores a larger problem: The system for financing public health emergencies is flawed. ……