If Effective, Experimental Hookworm Vaccine Could Help Lower Morbidity, Mortality From Iron-Deficiency Anemia February 20, 2015 News Summary Health Affairs Blog: Vaccinating Against Iron-Deficiency Anemia: A New Technology For Maternal And Child Health Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and Remko van Leeuwen, HOOKVAC project director at the Amsterdam Institute for Global…
WASH, Nutrition Programs Can Be Effectively Integrated February 20, 2015 News Summary Defeat DD: “Put ‘Em Together, It Just Makes Sense!” Successes and Challenges in WASH & Nutrition Jordan Teague, program associate at WASH Advocates, examines barriers to integrating WASH and nutrition initiatives, as well as action steps to enable effective integration (2/19).
NPR Reviews Rajiv Shah’s Tenure As USAID Administrator February 19, 2015 News Summary NPR: From Haiti’s Earthquake To Ebola, He Had Five Busy Years At USAID “…[A]sk [Rajiv] Shah to name the most important thing he achieved as head of USAID, and he points to the strong bipartisan support that he gained for American aid. ‘And because of that bipartisan support,’ he says,…
WHO Urges Governments To Scale Up Investment In Efforts Against NTDs February 19, 2015 News Summary Media outlets discuss a new WHO report, titled “Investing to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases.” Agence France-Presse: WHO urges billions to fight neglected tropical diseases “The World Health Organization on Thursday urged countries to invest billions of dollars to tackle 17 neglected tropical diseases — including dengue…
Ebola Cases Down, But Challenges Remain, Vigilance Must Be Maintained, U.N. Says February 19, 2015 News Summary Agence France-Presse: SLeone hunts infected as Ebola crisis hits ‘turning point’ “Sierra Leone launched a door-to-door search Wednesday for ‘hidden’ Ebola patients as the head of the United Nations announced the world was at ‘a critical turning point’ in the crisis…” (Johnson, 2/18). New York Times: Ebola Risks Linger, Officials…
U.N. To Release Accounting Report On Ebola Funding Distribution February 19, 2015 News Summary Agence France-Presse: U.N. to issue first report on Ebola funds “The United Nations will this week publish a first report on funding for the Ebola response, a top official said Wednesday, after Sierra Leone lost track of more than $3 million donated to fight the epidemic. … U.N. Ebola coordinator…
Sex Discriminatory Laws Still Prevalent In Many Countries, Violating International Conventions, Declarations, Report Shows February 19, 2015 News Summary Inter Press Service: Sexist Laws Still Thrive Worldwide “A rash of sex discriminatory laws — including the legalization of polygamy, marital rape, abduction, and the justification of violence against women — remains in statute books around the world. In a new report … the New York-based Equality Now has identified…
Progress Against Global Obesity Slow; Health Experts Call For More Policy Measures February 19, 2015 News Summary Reuters: Global progress against obesity “unacceptably slow” “Global progress toward tackling obesity has been ‘unacceptably slow,’ health experts said on Wednesday, with only one in four countries implementing a policy on healthy eating before 2010. In a series of studies published in The Lancet medical journal, researchers said that in…
The Guardian Examines Global Gains On MDGs To Reduce Extreme Poverty, Hunger February 19, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: What is the Millennium Development Goal on poverty and hunger all about? “…The target to reduce extreme poverty by half was reached by 2010, when the global poverty rate dropped to 22 percent, making it one of the first targets across all the goals to be met. ……