NPR Interviews Former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios About Trump’s Budget Outline, Proposed Cuts To State Department March 17, 2017 News Summary NPR: Former USAID Head Criticizes Trump’s Proposed Cuts To State Department “NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Andrew Natsios, the former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, about the Trump administration’s proposal to cut the State Department’s budget … Andrew Natsios headed USAID in the Bush administration. He was…
White House Releases FY18 Budget Blueprint March 16, 2017 News Summary The White House released its budget blueprint on March 16, 2017 providing initial information on its budget request for FY18 (the full budget request is expected in May). While detail on funding levels for most global health programs is not specified, the blueprint does include total funding for the U.S.…
New Kaiser Family Foundation Fact Sheet Provides Overview Of WHO, U.S. Engagement With Organization March 16, 2017 News Summary Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Government and the World Health Organization This new fact sheet provides information about the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. government’s engagement with the WHO.
U.S. President Trump’s 2018 Budget Outline Includes Significant Cuts For State, USAID, NIH, Other Agencies March 16, 2017 News Summary Devex: Trump’s ‘America first’ budget slashes foreign aid, multilateral funding “President Donald Trump’s first budget proposes … cuts to the United States Agency for International Development and the State Department and recommends slashing funding to the United Nations. The draft budget, which was released Thursday morning, reveals plans to stop…
U.S. Secretary Of State Tillerson Says State Department’s Current Budget ‘Not Sustainable,’ Accepts ‘Challenge’ To Reduce Spending Under Trump’s Proposed Budget March 16, 2017 News Summary Reuters: Tillerson says State Department spending ‘simply not sustainable’ “U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday the State Department’s current spending was ‘not sustainable,’ and he willingly accepted the ‘challenge’ President Donald Trump had given in proposing to cut more than a quarter of his agency’s budget. ……
Foreign Policy Examines Dutch Minister Ploumen’s ‘She Decides’ Initiative, European Uncertainty About Trump Administration March 16, 2017 News Summary Foreign Policy: If Trump Wants to End Legal Abortion, He’s Going to Have to Go Through Holland First “Lilianne Ploumen didn’t intend to be the face of the European resistance to Donald Trump. But the headlines she triggered by her efforts to counter one of Trump’s first decisions in the…
Tanzania’s Efforts To Shut Down AIDS Programs Offering Services To Gay People Incites Fear, Sparks Concern From U.S. Officials March 16, 2017 News Summary NPR: People With HIV Are Panicking Due To Tanzania’s Crackdown On Gays “…Last August, [Tanzania’s] justice minister suspended HIV prevention programs, funded by the U.S., that were aimed at gay men — and warned that any nonprofit that supports homosexuality would be suspended. Since then, there has been a continued…
Climate Change Must Be Addressed To Improve Health, Lower Risk Of Disease Outbreaks, Medical Consortium Says March 16, 2017 News Summary NBC News: Climate Change Needs to Be Tackled for Better Health, Medical Groups Urge “…Climate change is helping illness and disease spread and become more common, a new consortium of medical groups said Wednesday. It’s not just extreme heat and flooding, but more intense storms — including blizzards — and…
Agile, Innovative Polio Immunization Campaigns Help Pakistan Edge Closer To Eradication March 16, 2017 News Summary The Guardian: Polio’s last stand: frantic effort to eradicate Pakistan’s ‘badge of shame’ “…Here in Pakistan, home to almost all of the world’s polio cases just a few years ago, [a mobile population] require[s] a vaccination strategy as agile and stubborn as the virus itself. At hundreds of sites, teams…