Blog Post Examines Progress, Potential Of ‘Power Africa’ July 23, 2015 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “Rethinking U.S. Development Policy”: Sputters or Sparks from Power Africa? Todd Moss, chief operating officer and senior fellow at CGD, and Beth Schwanke, director of policy outreach at CGD, respond to a New York Times article published on July 22 and discuss Power Africa’s progress and…
World Needs ‘More Serious And Energetic’ Commitment To Eliminate TB July 23, 2015 News Summary Center for Strategic & International Studies’ “Smart Global Health”: Successes in HIV Overshadow Failures in TB Todd Summers, a senior adviser to the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, argues the world needs “a more serious and energetic global commitment to TB elimination.” He writes, “…There’s been progress in reducing [TB]…
MSF Helping Improve Access To HIV Services For Men In South Africa July 23, 2015 News Summary Center for Strategic & International Studies’ “Smart Global Health”: Leaving No Man Behind: Improving HIV Services for Men Sahil Angelo, program coordinator and research assistant for the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, examines Médecins Sans Frontières’ and others’ efforts to improve access to antiretroviral therapy for men living with HIV…
Re-Analysis Of Global Deworming Study Shows Strategy Has Little Benefit July 23, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: New research debunks merits of global deworming programs “Deworming children, once ranked by Nobel laureates as the fourth most effective intervention to solve the health problems of the whole world, offers very little benefit despite the millions of dollars spent on it, according to a re-analysis of evidence.…
Global Health Researchers Lack Data On Faith-Based Organizations’ Health Care Services, Lancet Series Says July 23, 2015 News Summary SciDev.Net: Faith-based care invisible to health researchers “Christian, Islamic, and other faith-based organizations provide extensive health care in the world’s poorest places, but are invisible to global health researchers, according to a series of papers published this month in medical journal The Lancet. The result is a dearth of data…
‘Science Speaks’ Reports On Presentations Made At IAS 2015 Conference July 23, 2015 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: IAS 2015: HIV self-testing promoted as new tool to reach first 90 of 90-90-90 UNAIDS targets Christine Lubinski, executive director of the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses research findings presented at the International AIDS Society conference showing the potential value of using…
Global Health Experts Propose Creation Of $2B Vaccine Development Fund July 23, 2015 News Summary Reuters: Health specialists call for $2 billion global fund for vaccines “Global health experts called on Wednesday for the creation of a $2 billion vaccine development fund to feed a pipeline of potential new shots against priority killer diseases like Ebola, MERS, and the West Nile virus. The fund would…
Water Supplies Threatened In War-Torn Yemen, Compounding Humanitarian Crisis, UNICEF Says July 23, 2015 News Summary U.N. News Centre: As temperature soars, UNICEF helps children threatened by water cuts in Aleppo “The restoration of water supplies to the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo has come as a welcome relief to residents whose taps have run dry in recent weeks due to the fighting and frequent power…
Associating SDGs’ Benefits With Costs Could Lead To More Effective Investments In Human Development July 23, 2015 News Summary New Yorker: How to Write the World’s To-Do List Michael Specter, staff writer at The New Yorker “…[Bjørn Lomborg, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center] argues that the U.N. is diluting its power by attempting to eliminate all problems [through the proposed SDG targets]. He is undoubtedly correct. Costs…
Many Young South African Women, U.S. MSM, Thai Transgender Women In Study Adhere To Daily PrEP Regimen July 23, 2015 News Summary New York Times: Daily HIV Drug Regimen Is Effective in African Women, Study Says “…The study, called ADAPT, found that wide majorities of young women in Cape Town, South Africa — as well as [transgender women] in Bangkok and younger gay men in Harlem — were willing and able to…