Long-Term Investments In Development, Food Assistance Vital To Famine Response May 8, 2017 News Summary The Hill: Fighting famine is the right thing to do, but building resilience is equally important Judith Rowland, U.S. policy and advocacy manager for Global Citizen “Overcoming partisanship and ‘America First’ discourse from the White House, Congress voted [last] week to provide $990 million in emergency funding for famine response…
Values, Human Rights Central To U.S. Foreign Policy May 8, 2017 News Summary New York Times: John McCain: Why We Must Support Human Rights John McCain, Republican senator from Arizona “…In a recent address to State Department employees, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said conditioning our foreign policy too heavily on values creates obstacles to advance our national interests. With those words, Secretary…
Guttmacher Institute Policy Analysis Examines Impacts Of U.S. International Family Planning Assistance May 8, 2017 News Summary Guttmacher Institute: Just the Numbers: The Impact of U.S. International Family Planning Assistance This policy analysis examines the benefits of U.S. international family planning assistance and the impacts of decreasing or eliminating this funding. According to the analysis, “[E]ach decrease of $10 million in U.S. funding would result in the…
Health Affairs Column Examines Philanthropic Funding For AIDS May 8, 2017 News Summary Health Affairs Blog: New In The Journal: Are Foundations Still Interested In HIV/AIDS? Lee-Lee Prina, a senior editor at Health Affairs and the journal’s GrantWatch columnist, writes, “An update on philanthropic funding in the area of HIV/AIDS is the subject of the GrantWatch column in the May 2017 issue of…
FT Health Discusses Global Drug Pricing Reform, Features Interview With Former Rwandan Health Minister Agnes Binagwaho May 8, 2017 News Summary FT Health: Drug pricing must be reformed The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses access to medicines and global drug pricing reform, and features an interview with Agnes Binagwaho, “Rwanda’s former health minister and current vice chancellor of Partners in Health’s new University of Global…
CSIS Podcast Features Episodes On Roles Of Private Sector Engagement, Innovation In Women’s, Family Health May 8, 2017 News Summary Center for Strategic & International Studies’ “Take as Directed”: Task Force Member Steve Davis on Innovation and More Steve Morrison, senior vice president at CSIS and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, speaks with Steve Davis, president and CEO of PATH and a member of the CSIS Task…
USAID Publishes New Issue Of ‘FrontLines’ May 8, 2017 News Summary USAID: FrontLines The May/June issue of USAID’s FrontLines features several articles on various maternal and newborn health issues and an article describing how a Boston-based social enterprise provides lab and other health care equipment to universities in Ghana (May/June 2017).
PEPFAR Approves $483M Country Operational Plan 2017 Budget For South Africa May 8, 2017 News Summary U.S. Embassy & Consulates In South Africa: PEPFAR Approves 2017 Budget to Support South Africa’s Fight Against HIV/AIDS and TB “On April 25, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy Ambassador Deborah Birx approved PEPFAR’s $483 million Country Operational Plan 2017 (COP2017) budget for South Africa,…
POLITICO Examines Gates Foundation’s Funding Of, Influence At WHO May 5, 2017 News Summary POLITICO: Meet the world’s most powerful doctor: Bill Gates “…Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second biggest donor, second only to the United States and just above the United Kingdom. This largesse gives [Bill Gates] outsized influence over its agenda, one that…