Devex Interviews Head Of USAID’s Bureau For Resilience And Food Security About Meeting Nutrition Needs Amid Pandemic October 2, 2020 News Summary Devex: Q&A: ‘We cannot wait’ — USAID sees urgency in pandemic hunger response “Jim Barnhart returned to Washington from his post in Jordan to head the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security in the middle of a pandemic that threatens to push hundreds of millions…
Media Outlets Continue To Cover Global Efforts To Provide Future Coronavirus Vaccines To Poorer Countries October 2, 2020 News Summary AP: Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble “An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration, and vaccines themselves — and is running into skepticism even from some of those it’s intended to…
President Trump Tests Positive For Coronavirus October 2, 2020 News Summary New York Times: Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus “President Trump revealed early Friday morning that he and the first lady, Melania Trump, had tested positive for the coronavirus, throwing the nation’s leadership into uncertainty and escalating the crisis posed by a pandemic that has already killed more than 207,000…
More COVID-19 & Global Health News October 2, 2020 News Summary Borgen Magazine: 3 Economic Benefits of International COVID-19 Relief (Messina, 9/30). Devex: How to move the needle on health worker safety (10/2). Devex: Q&A: Islamic Relief CEO on faith-based fundraising during COVID-19 (Igoe, 10/2). Financial Times: Pfizer chief hits out at politicization of Covid-19 vaccine (Kuchler, 10/1). Forbes: Trump Is…
Study Examines Impact Of Mexico City Policy On Health Services In Kenya October 1, 2020 News Summary The Conversation: Insights into how the U.S. abortion gag rule affects health services in Kenya Boniface Ushie, associate research scientist at African Population and Health Research Center, and colleagues “…Kenya relies heavily on foreign aid to finance its sexual and reproductive health services. … The African Population and Health Research…
More COVID-19 & Global Health News October 1, 2020 News Summary Al Jazeera: ‘Humanity waging war on nature’: U.N. chief (9/30). AP: Auditor general: Kenya to lose millions in COVID-19 response (Odula, 9/30). The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic (Tufekci, 9/30). Devex: Partnering for health: Advancing resilient health systems (10/1). Devex: Q&A: The need for flexibility…
Opinion Piece Outlines Recommendations On How To Reform, Strengthen USAID October 1, 2020 News Summary The Hill: There is hope for the future: Create USAID 2.0 R. David Harden, managing director of the Georgetown Strategy Group “…USAID needs a hard reset. USAID 2.0 will have to build dynamic global climate and health surveillance systems, unleash private capital and talent, innovate, and partner more effectively. ……
Global Health Community Applauds Updated Version Of Heroes Act Released By House October 1, 2020 News Summary AVAC: Global AIDS Policy Partnership Statement in Support of Heroes Act 2020 “The Global AIDS Policy Partnership (GAPP) applauds and strongly supports the provision of much-needed funding to global health efforts as part of the next COVID-19 relief package, led by the House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey and House…
Blog Posts, Releases Address Various Topics Related To COVID-19, Including Impact On AIDS, TB, Malaria Efforts; Importance Of WASH; Global Vaccine Access; Other Global Health Topics October 1, 2020 News Summary Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: How COVID-19 is affecting the global response to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (9/30). Global Citizen: The U.K. Is Set to Become the Largest State Donor to the WHO to Help Fight COVID-19 Helen Lock, content writer at Global Citizen (9/30).…