Private Sector Investment Critical To Achieving SDGs June 23, 2016 News Summary Huffington Post: Let’s Make Global Goals Local Business Lise Kingo, executive director of the United Nations Global Compact “…[T]he [Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)] not only identify where we have to be in 2030 to create a sustainable world which leaves nobody behind, but they also outline new opportunities for companies…
Hospitals In Sierra Leone Continue Ebola Response Efforts Despite Health System Challenges June 23, 2016 News Summary The Conversation: Hospital life in Sierra Leone after Ebola Tom Solomon, director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit, and professor at the University of Liverpool “…Work led by my colleagues at the University of Liverpool, and others, has shown that Ebola survivors…
Lessons From HIV Prevention, Treatment In Kenya May Help Inform Response To Growing NCD Epidemic June 23, 2016 News Summary Huffington Post: A Christian Warrior For Health Takes On Chronic Disease After Battling AIDS David J. Olson, global health communications expert “…[M]any Kenyans are surviving AIDS only to live long enough to be killed by [noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)]. … Health programs, therefore, must turn their attention to this new pandemic…
PAHO Journal Special Issue Highlights Role Medical Regulatory Authorities Play In Global Health June 23, 2016 News Summary PAHO/WHO: Special issue of PAHO journal spotlights efforts to improve regulation of medicines in the Americas “A special issue of the Pan American Journal of Public Health published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) with the support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), provides the latest scientific…
Upcoming Habitat III Conference Provides Opportunity To Address Women’s, Girls’ Health, Development In Cities June 23, 2016 News Summary Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: In Cities, the New Battlefield for Sustainable Development, Women and Girls Need Help Daniela Ligiero, vice president of girls and women strategy at the United Nations Foundation, discusses the role of urban development in advancing women’s and girls’ health…
House Democrats Attempt To Force Vote On Zika Funding As July 4th Recess Approaches June 22, 2016 News Summary The Atlantic: House Democrats Try to Force Another Vote on Zika “Congressional lawmakers started formal negotiations last week on Zika funding, but things aren’t moving fast enough for House Democrats…” (Kelly, 6/21). CQ News: Zika Spending Talks Headed for the Finish Line, But No Deal Yet “…A Democratic Senate conferee…
NIH Announces Large Study To Follow Pregnant Women In Zika-Affected Countries June 22, 2016 News Summary Associated Press/PBS NewsHour: NIH launches massive study of pregnant women in Zika-hit regions “Researchers are beginning a study of up to 10,000 pregnant women in Puerto Rico, Brazil, and other Zika-hit parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, to better understand the virus’ threat. The U.S. National Institutes of Health…
Most MERS Cases In New Riyadh Outbreak Linked To Misdiagnosed Woman, WHO Says June 22, 2016 News Summary CIDRAP News: WHO details Riyadh hospital MERS outbreak as new UAE, Saudi cases noted “The World Health Organization (WHO) [Tuesday] released more details about a MERS-CoV outbreak at King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, triggered by a woman whose illness wasn’t detected until after she was admitted to a vascular…
More Than 700 Medical Workers Killed In Syrian War; Doctors, NGOs Develop Underground Hospital System June 22, 2016 News Summary Agence France-Presse: More than 700 doctors killed in Syria war: U.N. “Attacks on hospitals since Syria’s war broke out five years ago have left more than 700 doctors and medical workers dead, many of them in air strikes, U.N. investigators said Tuesday. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria also…