Advocates At IAS 2017 Express Concern Over Proposed U.S. Funding Cuts To Global AIDS Programs July 24, 2017 News Summary Agence France-Presse: ‘Draconian’ U.S. funding cuts would cost lives: AIDS meeting “Leaders in the fight against HIV on Sunday urged the U.S. government, the largest donor to global AIDS research and treatment, to reject ‘draconian’ funding cuts proposed by President Donald Trump. Any funding lapse, they said, will be counted…
Malaria Eradication Advocates Push For U.S. Congress To Maintain, Increase Funding For Efforts July 24, 2017 News Summary Devex: Making the case for malaria eradication in a tight budgetary environment “…[T]here has been a shift over the past decade from shrinking the malaria map to getting rid of the disease for good, and malaria eradication advocates say current funding levels cannot get us to that goal. The closer…
African Child Infected With, Treated For HIV As Newborn In Remission For 8.5 Years, Researchers Report At IAS 2017 July 24, 2017 News Summary CNN: Rare case of 9-year-old in HIV remission for years — without drugs “A 9-year-old South African child diagnosed with HIV when he was one month old has been in HIV remission for 8.5 years — without regular treatment. This is the first reported case of a child controlling their…
Scientists Report Encouraging HIV Treatment, Vaccine Research Findings At IAS 2017 Conference July 24, 2017 News Summary Financial Times: New vaccine enters the battle against AIDS “A new AIDS vaccine will begin large-scale trials in southern Africa at the end of this year, in what is hoped will be a breakthrough in the 30-year scientific battle against the disease. Promising early clinical data on the vaccine, developed…
Bipartisan Task Force Defends U.S. Foreign Aid, Proposes Giving USAID Seat On White House National Security Council July 24, 2017 News Summary Bloomberg: Senators Defend Foreign Aid in Fresh Pitch Against Trump’s Cuts “A bipartisan task force of U.S. senators and former diplomats is pushing back against the Trump administration’s effort to cut funding for foreign aid and development, urging instead that the strategy for overseas assistance should be revamped. Far from…
WHO Announces Prequalification For Hepatitis C Drug, HIV Self-Test July 24, 2017 News Summary Intellectual Property Watch: WHO Prequalifies First Generic Hepatitis C Drug And First HIV Self-Test “…[T]he World Health Organization has announced the prequalification of the first generic version of sofosbuvir, a ‘critical’ medicine for treating hepatitis C. Treatment for hepatitis C under patent has been notoriously priced at extreme high levels,…
Donations To She Decides International Family Planning Initiative ‘Still Coming In,’ Spokesperson Says July 24, 2017 News Summary Devex: She Decides fund for family planning takes shape “Six months after U.S. President Donald Trump’s reinstatement of an extended ‘global gag rule,’ the She Decides family planning movement launched in its wake is beginning to take shape. A spokesperson told Devex that donations ‘have risen substantially’ since the She…
IRIN Examines Donor Reporting Of In-Country Refugee Spending July 24, 2017 News Summary IRIN: Aid credibility at stake as donors haggle over reporting rules “The world’s rich countries spend billions at home but report it as ‘aid,’ exploiting a loophole that enables donors to mislead the public and cut vital development budgets. IRIN has dug into the data to reveal the worst offenders…
Yemen’s Cholera Outbreak ‘Worst Ever’; 600K Cases Expected By Year’s End, Oxfam Projects July 24, 2017 News Summary Al Jazeera: Yemen crisis ‘an absolute shame on humanity’ “International human rights organization CARE has denounced the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen, which is also suffering from a cholera epidemic, as ‘an absolute shame on humanity’…” (7/23). CIDRAP News: Yemen’s cholera epidemic called ‘worst ever’ by Oxfam “In just over…