Devex Examines Potential Impacts Of Cuts To U.S. Foreign Assistance March 15, 2017 News Summary Devex: What would deep cuts to U.S. foreign aid look like? “For U.S. aid advocates, last month’s news that the Donald Trump administration will seek massive cuts to U.S. foreign affairs funding came as an unwelcome, though not unexpected, blow. The intervening days have seen a flurry of speculation and…
U.S. President Trump’s Preliminary Budget To Include Proposed Cuts To State, USAID, U.N.; Final Numbers Could Change, State Department Spokesperson Says March 15, 2017 News Summary CNN: White House demands deep cuts to State, U.N. funds “The White House has instructed the State Department and the U.S. mission to the United Nations to cut their budgets for U.N. programs nearly in half, including U.S. peacekeeping and development assistance, two senior U.S. officials told CNN on Monday.…
Trump Administration’s 2018 Budget Proposal Might Ask For Smaller Cuts To State, USAID Than Expected; Could Request Cuts Of More Than 50% For U.N. Funding, Sources Say March 14, 2017 News Summary POLITICO: Cuts to State will be reduced in final Trump proposal “The State Department budget won’t be getting cut as deeply as President Donald Trump initially suggested after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson successfully pushed back with the White House, according to people familiar with the plans. The budget blueprint…
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Birx Addresses Potential Impacts Of Mexico City Policy, Budget Cuts On PEPFAR Operations, Highlights Importance Of Data March 14, 2017 News Summary Devex: Amb. Birx on PEPFAR in the Trump era “U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Deborah Birx played down the potential impact of the reinstated ‘global gag rule’ will have on PEPFAR programs. While the exact implications remain unclear, she told Devex that the agency’s focus on data has it well…
At CSW Opening Session, U.N. Leaders Call For Greater Efforts To Educate, Empower Women March 14, 2017 News Summary Associated Press/TIME: Women’s Rights Are Under Attack Worldwide, Warns U.N. Chief “Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that women are suffering ‘new assaults on their safety and dignity’ around the world, pointing to extremists subjugating women and governments curtailing women’s freedoms and rolling back laws against domestic violence. He told the…
Inaugural Access To Vaccines Index Ranks Companies Based On Efforts To Expand Immunization Coverage March 14, 2017 News Summary New York Times: Vaccine Makers Ranked on Pricing and Research “The pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi sell the most vaccines and earn the most money doing so, while the Serum Institute of India sells the most vaccines at a discount, according to the first Access to Vaccines Index, which was…
More Syrian Children Killed In 2016 Than Any Other Of 6-Year Conflict, Marking ‘Unprecedented Suffering,’ UNICEF Says March 14, 2017 News Summary CNN: 2016 was ‘rock bottom’ for children in Syria, says UNICEF “More Syrian children were killed in 2016 than in any other year of the six-year conflict, making last year the worst on record for children in the war-torn nation, according to children’s charity UNICEF…” (Perry, 3/13). Newsweek: 2016 Was…
U.N. Falling Short Of $400M For Haiti Cholera Fund, Raising 2% Of Goal So Far March 14, 2017 News Summary VOA News: U.N. Fund to Fight Cholera in Haiti at 2 Percent of Goal “Late last year, the United Nations promised to strengthen its fight against the spread of the deadly cholera disease. U.N. peacekeeping troops unknowingly brought the disease to Haiti seven years ago. But, so far, the U.N.…
Researchers Aim To Educate West African Residents About ‘Gene Drives’ Before Releasing Modified Mosquitoes In Effort To Reduce Malaria Burden March 14, 2017 News Summary STAT: In a remote West African village, a revolutionary genetic experiment is on its way — if residents agree to it “…It may be six years before the gene drive mosquitoes are actually released in Burkina Faso, but scientists are already working around the clock to prepare the community for…