Canada’s Foreign Aid Strategy Signals Commitment To Women, Gender Equity July 14, 2017 News Summary The Lancet: Canada’s feminist foreign aid agenda Editorial Board “…The announcement on June 9 of a CAN$5 billion annual aid plan for the next five years, directed at women’s organizations in the Global South, has now been welcomed as a feminist foreign aid strategy. Ninety-five percent of Canadian foreign aid…
G20 Lacks Concrete, Specific Actions On Global Health July 14, 2017 News Summary The Lancet: Offline: The G20 and health — platitudes and broken promises Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet “…The 15-page final Declaration from G20 leaders was full of platitudes. … Global health appeared on page eight. The G20 recognized that their nations had a ‘crucial role’ in pandemic preparedness. They…
Global Leaders Must Prioritize Development Strategies That Protect Environment, Public Health July 14, 2017 News Summary Project Syndicate: The Health Costs of Environmental Change Shaukat Aziz, prime minister of Pakistan from 2004 to 2007 “…Up to a quarter of the world’s disease burden is associated with human-caused environmental factors, the [Emerging Markets Symposium at the University of Oxford’s Green Templeton College] found. … Repairing the Earth’s…
Expanded Access To Medicine Allows Treatment Of 85M People For Trachoma, Improving Prospects For Disease Elimination July 14, 2017 News Summary WHO: 85 million people treated for trachoma through expanded access to medicine “New data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) show a remarkable 63 percent increase in the number of people treated with an antibiotic for trachoma during the period 2014-2016, considerably improving prospects for the global elimination of…
Honduras Passes Bill Making Child Marriage Illegal; Other Countries Should Follow, HRW Researcher Writes July 14, 2017 News Summary Human Rights Watch: Time to Get Serious about Child Marriage in Latin America Heather Barr, senior researcher at the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, discusses the passage of a bill making child marriage illegal in Honduras, writing, “For the many other countries in Latin America that need urgently…
Blog Posts Highlight Pledges Made At London Family Planning Summit, Next Steps For Donors July 14, 2017 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “Global Health Policy Blog”: Family Planning Summit Raises Much-Needed Funds. Now It’s Time for Donors to Stop Being Polite and Start Getting Real. Rachel Silverman, senior policy analyst with CGD, discusses her attendance at this week’s London Family Planning Summit, writing, “With significant new money raised…
Devex Highlights 4 Key Takeaways From London Family Planning Summit July 13, 2017 News Summary Devex: Highlights from the London Family Planning Summit “The London Family Planning Summit held in the United Kingdom on Tuesday has been heralded a major success — raising at least $2.5 billion in new funding commitments for reproductive health services, signing up new partners and countries to its 2020 targets,…
WHO Health Emergencies Program Executive Director Discusses Agency’s Involvement At G20 Summit In Devex Interview July 13, 2017 News Summary Devex: Q&A: WHO head of emergencies on getting health on the G20 agenda “Global health issues featured more prominently on the agenda of the recently concluded G20 summit than at any previous meeting of the rich country grouping. … [I]n WHO’s delegation was Dr. Peter Salama, who took over as…
Yemen’s Food Insecurity, Cholera Outbreak, Humanitarian Crisis To Worsen If Politics Continue To Fail, U.N. Officials Tell Security Council July 13, 2017 News Summary CBS News: U.N. warned “we should all feel deeply guilty” as Yemenis die “The cholera epidemic raging across war-torn Yemen — already the worst outbreak of the disease in the world — grew dramatically worse over the past month, United Nations officials warned the Security Council on Wednesday. … ‘Nearly…