Drug-Resistant Malaria Threatens To Spread Out Of Southeast Asia July 9, 2015 News Summary Huffington Post: Resisting Resistance: What’s Next in the Fight Against Malaria? Cameron Conaway, author “It’s been described as a crisis in the anti-malaria community. Resistance to ACTs (artemisinin-based combination therapies), the oft-described super drug in efforts to combat malaria, have reached a tipping point. … Professor François Nosten, Director of…
Experts Discuss Possibility Of Woman U.N. Secretary General In The Guardian July 9, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: Will the next U.N. secretary general be a woman? “Mary Robinson, Nicholas Kristof, and other global experts share their thoughts on the potential repercussions of a female U.N. secretary general…” (Soussane, 7/9).
Global AIDS Risks Rebounding If Current Momentum To End Epidemic Not Accelerated July 9, 2015 News Summary The Hill: Global AIDS report showed risks of abandoning progress Kenneth Mayer, physician and director of prevention research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, medical research director at the Fenway Institute, and co-chair of the IDSA Center for Global Health Policy “…The [Lancet report on the global AIDS epidemic] emphasized…
Devex Examines Tobacco Taxation As Potential Innovative Funding Stream For NCDs July 9, 2015 News Summary Devex: Can tobacco excise taxes be a boon for NCD financing? “…Only 33 countries have so far raised taxes on a pack of cigarettes to the suggested more than 75 percent of retail price, according to a new WHO report launched this week … [This] dashes hopes for greater supplemental…
More Than 4M Syrian Refugees Have Fled Country; 7.6M Internally Displaced Within War-Torn Nation, U.N. Says July 9, 2015 News Summary News outlets highlight the findings of a UNHCR report on Syrian refugees. Agence France-Presse: Number of Syrian refugees tops four million: U.N. “More than four million Syrians have fled the civil war ravaging their country to become refugees in the surrounding region — a million of them in the past…
North Korean Children’s Lives Can Be Saved With Swift Action On Drought, Food Supplies, UNICEF Says July 9, 2015 News Summary U.N. News Centre: With fast action to rescue staple crops ‘we can save lives’ in DPR Korea, UNICEF says “Children are already suffering as a result of drought in some parts of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK), where deaths of young children attributed to diarrhea have increased seriously…
ONE Campaign Calls On Australia To Refocus Aid Goals, Allocate More To Poorest Countries July 9, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: Australia under pressure to boost aid spending on poorest countries “Less than one-quarter of Australia’s aid money is going to the world’s poorest nations, new analysis by aid organization ONE has revealed. … Nearly all jurisdictions received a cut to funding, as outlined in the 2014-15 May budget,…
Loss Of HCWs To Ebola In West Africa Could Increase Region’s Maternal Mortality, World Bank Warns July 9, 2015 News Summary News outlets report on a World Bank study published in The Lancet Global Health examining the potential impacts of the West African Ebola epidemic on maternal deaths in the region. Agence France-Presse: World Bank warns of rising maternal deaths post-Ebola “The World Bank warned Wednesday that the loss of health…
ICRC Head Says Organization Reassessing Humanitarian Operations Under Growing Burden Of Global Crises July 9, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: Spread of global conflict transforming humanitarian work, says Red Cross chief “The world’s inability to deal with the proliferation of conflict driven-crises is forcing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to shoulder an ever-larger burden and reassess the way it works, the organization’s president has warned…”…
Shortages Of Money, Staff, Trust In Officials Challenging Efforts To End West African Ebola Epidemic July 9, 2015 News Summary Agence France-Presse: Sierra Leone extends Ebola curfews indefinitely “Ebola-hit Sierra Leone said on Wednesday it will extend curfews placed on its worst-affected communities last month until the deadly virus has been eradicated…” (7/8). CIDRAP News: Two more Liberia Ebola cases as Guinea, Sierra Leone log 27 “Two more Ebola infections…