U.N. Expected To Approve Sustainable Development Agenda During Weekend Summit September 23, 2015 News Summary Nature: U.N. approves global to-do list for next 15 years “On 25 September, Pope Francis will address the United Nations just before a three-day meeting that will set the agenda for international development efforts over the next 15 years. At the Sustainable Development Summit in New York, global leaders will…
Weaker Global Economic Growth Challenges Efforts To Meet SDGs, IMF’s Lagarde Says September 23, 2015 News Summary Reuters: IMF’s Lagarde: weaker global growth complicates development goals “Downside risks to global growth have increased and the weak economic outlook will make achieving world development goals more difficult than in the past, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. … ‘It would be a lot easier…
Social Scientists Can Work With Policymakers To Formulate, Implement, Measure SDG Targets, Conference Hears September 23, 2015 News Summary SciDev.Net: Social scientists urged to help with development goals “Policymakers and social scientists must team up to help achieve the global development agenda and help measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a meeting has heard. Social scientists can help formulate the goals, implement policies, and measure their effects,…
Some In Global Development Community Calling For More Integrated Approach To Achieve SDGs September 23, 2015 News Summary Devex: Pivoting to post-2015: Proving the promise of integrated development “As the Millennium Development Goals come to a close at the end of the year, many in the global development community say that historic top-down development approaches have missed the mark and need a big overhaul. … When it comes…
Guinea Officials Expect Country’s Ebola Epidemic To Be Declared Over By November September 23, 2015 News Summary Bloomberg Business: Guinea’s Government Expects an End to Ebola Epidemic by November “…One confirmed and one suspected case of the hemorrhagic fever were being treated as of Sept. 17, Guinean National Ebola Response Coordinator Sakoba Keita said in an interview in the capital, Conakry, on Sept. 18. The authorities will…
USA TODAY Examines U.S. Outbreak Preparedness After Ebola, Effectiveness Of Airline Passenger Screening September 23, 2015 News Summary USA TODAY: Some health experts say the USA hasn’t learned key lessons from Ebola experience “One year after doctors diagnosed the first Ebola patient in the USA, some experts question whether the country is prepared to deal with the next outbreak of a serious infectious disease…” (Szabo, 9/22). USA TODAY:…
South Africa Expected To Release White Paper Outlining National Health Insurance Plan, CNN Reports September 23, 2015 News Summary CNN: After a 70 year wait, is universal health care finally coming to South Africa? “…South Africa is on the brink of overhauling its health care system — and it’s a plan 70 years in the making. … [W]ith the imminent release of a government white paper outlining a new…
UNFPA Stresses Need For Reproductive Health Care Among Migrant, Refugee Women In Europe, Appeals For $4.2M In Aid September 23, 2015 News Summary U.N. News Centre: Thousands of women on the move in Europe need reproductive health care — U.N. “The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today stressed the need to ensure women refugees and migrants moving across Europe have access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health care, as it appealed for $4.2…
Europe On Track To Meet Reduction In Premature Mortality Goal But Tobacco, Alcohol Use, Obesity Mar Progress, WHO Report Says September 23, 2015 News Summary News outlets highlight findings from the WHO’s European Health Report 2015. Deutsche Welle: Smoking, alcohol, and obesity blemish Europe’s progress in reducing premature mortality “The World Health Organization (WHO) reported its European region to be on track to hit targets set in 2012 to reduce premature mortality by 2020. But…