News Outlets Highlight Humanitarian Crises, Hunger, Disease Outbreaks In Conflict-Affected Nations Of Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria April 19, 2017 News Summary Christian Science Monitor: As global famine aid comes up short, Somalis abroad step up “Every year, Somalis abroad send about $1.4 billion back home — almost a quarter of the country’s GDP. As organizations like the United Nations warn that famine could spread, those remittances are an especially vital form…
Bill Gates Expresses Hope U.S. President Trump’s ‘Pragmatism’ Will Inform Global Health-Related Policies, Foreign Aid Funding April 19, 2017 News Summary Bloomberg: Gates Says He’s Counting on Trump’s Pragmatism for Health, Aid “Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says he’s counting on Donald Trump’s pragmatism when it comes to the president’s policies on health spending and foreign aid. ‘I’ve talked to him about HIV and how the U.S. should be proud of our…
U.S. State Department, HHS Conduct International Inter-Agency Drill To Test Disease Outbreak Preparedness April 19, 2017 News Summary Associated Press: Feds practice Ebola evacuations despite past Trump criticism “Donald Trump railed against President Barack Obama’s decision to bring patients with Ebola to the United States for treatment in 2014. Now that Trump is president, his administration is preparing for similar, and possibly larger-scale, evacuations. The State Department and…
Financial Times Special Report Focuses On Vaccines April 19, 2017 News Summary Financial Times: FT Health: Vaccines “Vaccine research grows vigorously, propelled by rising world demand to fight existing diseases and to guard against new threats. Ebola and Zika have recently caused huge international alarm. Yet the Trump era may give voice to increased vaccine skepticism…” This special report includes eight articles on…
Two-Thirds Of Australians Say Nation’s Foreign Aid Budget Should Support Sexual, Reproductive Health Programming In Pacific Island Countries, Poll Shows April 19, 2017 News Summary BuzzFeed News: Aussies Don’t Want To Follow Trump By Banning Charities That Offer Abortion Services “…The Australian Christian Lobby urged [Australian] Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to … reinstate a ban on the use of foreign aid to terminate pregnancies in other countries. The ban, introduced by former prime minister John…
Some Experts Question Low Number Of Zika-Affected Infants Born In Puerto Rico April 19, 2017 News Summary STAT: ‘They’re just hiding’: Experts say Puerto Rico may be underreporting Zika-affected births “The number of babies born in Puerto Rico with microcephaly and other birth defects caused by the Zika virus appears to be unexpectedly low — so low that experts are beginning to question whether the actual count…
WHO Releases 10-Year Review Report Chapter Focusing On NTDs April 19, 2017 News Summary WHO: The neglected tropical diseases: a rags-to-riches story The next chapter in the WHO’s “Ten years in public health 2007-2017” report focuses on neglected tropical diseases. “Since 2007, WHO has helped streamline delivery of donated drugs. In the London Declaration of 2012, leading pharmaceutical companies agreed to billions of dollars’…
Proposed Cuts To NIH Budget Threaten Scientific Research April 19, 2017 News Summary Washington Post: Why slashing the NIH budget is indefensible Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine “…When news of the proposed NIH cuts broke, scientists expressed fear about the far-reaching implications. In addition to biomedical research conducted at NIH headquarters in Maryland, more than 80 percent of…
U.S. Should Continue To Invest In Preventing Female Genital Mutilation At Home, Abroad April 19, 2017 News Summary The Hill: Michigan case shows more needs to be done to confront female genital mutilation Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Democratic Caucus “…[D]espite politics, the U.S. should not weaken its investments in critical funding sources like USAID and the U.N. Population Fund that support the culturally appropriate…
Long-Term Partnerships Could Help Bridge Global Surgical Gap By Training Surgeons, Skilled Health Care Professionals April 19, 2017 News Summary STAT: I taught a non-MD to do brain surgery. This radical approach could solve the global surgeon shortage Dilan Ellegala, neurosurgeon and founder of Madaktari Africa “…Instead of focusing solely on treating those in need of medical care [during short-term medical missions], we need to build long-term partnerships in countries…