FP2020 Releases Second Annual Progress Report November 3, 2014 News Summary FP2020: Progress Report 2013-2014 “Today, Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) released its second progress report detailing achievements since the landmark 2012 London Summit on Family Planning. The report, Partnership in Progress, shows the initiative is making steady progress toward its goal of enabling an additional 120 million women and girls in…
Bill Gates Says Malaria Can Be Eradicated Within A Generation November 3, 2014 News Summary Gates Notes: We Can Eradicate Malaria — Within a Generation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates writes in his blog, “…Based on the progress I’m seeing in the lab and on the ground, I believe we’re now in a position to eradicate malaria — that is, wipe it…
High-Level Meeting Examines Global Fund’s New Funding Model For TB Financing November 3, 2014 News Summary UNAIDS: High-level dialogue: making the Global Fund’s new funding model work for tuberculosis “…Greater commitment and resources are needed to mount an effective response to TB and a high-level round-table event examined how this can be done through the new funding model of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis…
World Bank Pledges Additional $100M For Ebola HCWs In West Africa October 31, 2014 News Summary Media sources report on a new World Bank pledge of an additional $100 million to help speed new health workers to West African nations affected by Ebola. Agence France-Presse: World Bank gives $100 mn for Ebola health workers in W. Africa “The World Bank said Thursday it was immediately providing…
Nations In Americas Agree To Coordinate Ebola Responses October 31, 2014 News Summary Associated Press: Nations in Americas join in battle against Ebola “Representatives of countries from around the Americas, including the United States, have agreed to work together in their response to Ebola, adopting similar procedures in such things as the establishment of epidemiological monitoring centers and coordinating the transport of biological…
HHS, Homeland Security Heads To Testify On Ebola At Senate Appropriations Hearing October 31, 2014 News Summary The Hill: HHS, DHS chiefs to testify on Ebola funding “Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson are among the witnesses expected to testify on the government’s response to Ebola at an upcoming Senate Appropriations Committee hearing…” (Shabad, 10/30).
U.S. States’ Policies For Isolating Ebola Workers Vary; MSF Says Some Policies ‘Chilling’ Its Work In West Africa October 31, 2014 News Summary News outlets report on U.S. states’ various isolation policies for Ebola workers returned from West Africa, and MSF’s comments on how some policies are impacting its workforce. New York Times: From Governors, a Mix of Hard-Line Acts and Conciliation Over Ebola “…As more doctors and nurses return from Ebola-stricken countries in…
U.S. Officials, European Consortium At Odds Over Ebola Drug Trials Lacking Control Arms October 31, 2014 News Summary Wall Street Journal: Europeans’ Plan to do Uncontrolled Ebola Trial Draws Fire “A consortium including European universities and medical groups plans to give experimental drugs to West African Ebola patients without assigning some to a placebo group, touching off an intense trans-Atlantic quarrel over what is ethical and effective in…
TIME Discusses WHO’s Response To Ebola Outbreak, Interviews Director-General Chan October 31, 2014 News Summary TIME Magazine discusses the WHO’s response to the West African Ebola outbreak and features an interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan. TIME: The World Health Organization Comes Under Fire for Failure to Stop Ebola “The agency has been missing in action at a critical time…” (Walt, 10/30). TIME: WHO Chief…