Drug May Offer Public Health Benefit For Women Seeking Abortion In El Salvador September 24, 2014 News Summary NPR: Even When Abortion Is Illegal, The Market May Sell Pills For Abortion “…[The] illicit trade in misoprostol has cut the rate of maternal deaths in El Salvador significantly, says Sofia Villalta Delgado, with the Salvadoran Ministry of Health. … Delgado says the Ministry of Health doesn’t endorse the use…
Children Are Main Victims Of War, UNICEF Reports September 24, 2014 News Summary VOA News: UNICEF Says Children Main Victims of War “The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports children are the main victims of war, with many suffering mental stress that will last a lifetime…” (Schlein, 9/23).
Thousands Of Young Children At Risk Of Dying From Malnutrition In S. Sudan, UNICEF Warns September 24, 2014 News Summary U.N. News Centre: Thousands of children at risk of starvation in South Sudan, UNICEF warns “Thousands of children under the age of five are at risk of dying from malnutrition in South Sudan, and 1.5 million people will be in crisis and emergency food insecurity levels from September through December,…
Political, Financial Investments Critical To Keeping Up Momentum On MDGs September 24, 2014 News Summary Devex: Ending poverty through sustainable development and leaving no one behind Amina Mohammed, U.N. secretary general’s special adviser on post-2015 development planning, and Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International “As two African women and development leaders deeply involved in efforts to irreversibly end poverty and set the world on…
International Community Testing Its Luck By Not Adequately Responding To Ebola September 24, 2014 News Summary Financial Times: A ravenous Ebola epidemic that the world could have stopped Anjana Ahuja, science journalist “…A lack of leadership has been almost as terrifying as the [Ebola] virus, turning an avoidable crisis into a man-made catastrophe. … We have survived globe-threatening ailments such as bird flu and severe acute…
Climate Should Not Be Top Priority Compared With Other Development Issues September 24, 2014 News Summary National Post: Bjørn Lomborg: Global warming is hardly the world’s biggest problem Bjørn Lomborg, adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre “U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is meeting the world’s leaders for a climate summit today, ‘to make climate change a top priority for all…
Community Health Programs Can Work With Governments To Improve Family Planning Access September 24, 2014 News Summary Devex: Kindling family planning change in urban slums Gita Pillai and Anju Dadhwal Singh of the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) in India “…Improving equitable access to family planning services and supplies as well as reducing the gap in unmet need for family planning services between the poor and the nonpoor…
State Department, USAID Preparing New QDDR September 24, 2014 News Summary Center for Strategic & International Studies: Lessons for the 2014 QDDR In an essay, Gerald Hyman, a senior adviser and president of the Hills Program on Governance at CSIS, discusses the U.S. Department of State and USAID’s work on preparing a new Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), “intended to…
U.S., Netherlands Partner To Address Water, Climate Issues September 24, 2014 News Summary U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote” blog: U.S.-Netherlands Partnership Addresses Water and Climate Issues Timothy Broas, U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, discusses the U.S.-Netherlands partnership to address water and climate issues with clean energy technology (9/23).
USAID Asking ‘Right Questions’ To Reach Goal Of Ending Extreme Poverty September 24, 2014 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “Rethinking U.S. Development Policy”: USAID’s Frontiers in Development Asks More Questions than It Answers … and That’s a Good Thing CGD Senior Policy Analyst Casey Dunning discusses her experience at USAID’s Frontiers in Development conference, “a two-day smorgasbord of keynotes, panels, roundtables, and an Innovation Marketplace…