New Report Examines Observations On HIV Treatment Resource Allocation In Mozambique January 14, 2016 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Mozambique: Our report on an HIV treatment pivot examines what can happen Right Now Antigone Barton, senior writer and editor of “Science Speaks,” discusses a visit to Mozambique to observe how U.S.-funded HIV programs were redistributing resources and funds to treat the epidemic in…
National Action Plan Can Accelerate R&D Efforts, Progress Against MDR-TB January 14, 2016 News Summary Global Health Technologies Coalition’s “Breakthroughs”: Welcoming the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Important first steps, critical next steps “In this guest post, Dara Erck, vice president of external affairs at Aeras, discusses the new White House National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and how it could accelerate…
Suicide Bomber Targets Polio Center In Pakistan’s Quetta, Killing At Least 14 People; Most Victims Police Preparing To Protect Vaccinators January 13, 2016 News Summary Associated Press: Suicide attack on Pakistan polio center kills 15 “A suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday killed 15 people, mainly police who had gathered to escort health workers, who have been repeatedly targeted in recent years by Islamic militants, officials said…” (Sattar/Shahzad, 1/13).…
Group Of Indian Women Urging Government To Ban FGM, Calling Practice Child Abuse January 13, 2016 News Summary Thomson Reuters Foundation: India urged to ban FGM as women break silence on secret ritual “A group of Indian women who were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) as children are calling on the government to ban the ancient ritual, describing it as child abuse. … The campaign is led…
WHO To Declare End Of Ebola Outbreak This Week; West Africa Takes Stock Of Economic Damage, Assesses Preparations For Next Outbreak January 13, 2016 News Summary Agence France-Presse: WHO to declare Ebola outbreak over “The two-year Ebola epidemic which laid waste to communities across West Africa and killed more than 11,000 people is due to be declared over Thursday with Liberia expecting the all-clear…” (Dosso, 1/13). Agence France-Presse: West Africa counts economic cost as Ebola outbreak…
Philippines Health Department Will Be Able To Fund Contraceptives Despite Budget Cut, Senator Says January 13, 2016 News Summary GMA News Online: DOH still has enough funds for contraceptives, says Legarda “Speaking as the head of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Loren Legarda on Tuesday said that the Department of Health (DOH) still has enough funds to purchase contraceptives for its Family Health and Responsible Parenting (FHRP) program…”…
South-East Asia Region Marks 5 Years Without Wild Poliovirus Case, WHO Announces January 13, 2016 News Summary U.N. News Centre: Five polio-free years in South-East Asia Region, announces U.N. health agency “The United Nations health agency [on Tuesday] announced that the South-East Asia Region has completed five years without any case of wild poliovirus … [The WHO] is underlining that completing half a decade without any case…
Aid Workers, U.N. Officials Describe Desperate Situation In Besieged Syrian Town Of Madaya January 13, 2016 News Summary CNN: Starving Syrian town: How did Madaya get so desperate? “Help has finally reached the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, and experienced aid workers were reduced to tears by what they saw when they arrived. Children stood around trucks in freezing weather, ‘so polite and civilized, asking if we had…
Southern African Governments Under Pressure To Subsidize Food, Provide Aid As Drought Kills Crops January 13, 2016 News Summary Bloomberg Business: Hunger Stalks Southern Africa as El Niño Decimates Harvests “…Vast tracts of farmland across southern Africa have been decimated by the worst drought in almost two decades, raising the specter of a regional famine. Governments that are strapped for cash due to the commodity price rout are facing…