Independent Investigation Needed Into U.S. Airstrike On MSF Hospital October 6, 2015 News Summary New York Times: The Aftermath of a Deadly Airstrike in Afghanistan Editorial Board “…Gen. John Campbell, who commands American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, acknowledged at a news conference on Monday that the airstrike [on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, run by Médecins Sans Frontières] by an American gunship on…
Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded To 3 Scientists For Work On Parasitic Disease Therapies October 5, 2015 News Summary News outlets report on the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, awarded this year to three researchers of parasitic diseases. CNN: 3 scientists share Nobel Prize for medicine for work on parasitic diseases “…Half of the award goes to Ireland’s William Campbell and Japan’s Satoshi Omura,…
Mexico Becomes 3rd Country In World To Eliminate Onchocerciasis October 5, 2015 News Summary Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases’ “End the Neglect”: Adiós! Goodbye, oncho! Mexico joins two other countries in ending onchocerciasis in LAC Mirta Roses Periago, director emeritus of PAHO/WHO and special envoy for the Global Network, discusses progress made by the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region in ending…
Less Than 10% Of World’s Population Will Be Living In Extreme Poverty By End 2015, World Bank Predicts October 5, 2015 News Summary News outlets discuss a new report from the World Bank forecasting global poverty trends based on the latest available data. BBC News: World Bank: Extreme poverty ‘to fall below 10%’ “The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10 percent of the world’s population will be…
Melinda Gates Speaks About Health, Development Issues In AllAfrica Interview October 5, 2015 News Summary AllAfrica: Africa: We Can Defeat Poverty — Melinda Gates “…Before traveling to New York for events connected with the U.N. General Assembly and the new Global Goals, Melinda Gates spoke to AllAfrica by phone from Seattle, where she is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…” The interview includes…
Teachers Receive Training On Malaria Diagnosis, Treatment As Part Of Malawian Program October 5, 2015 News Summary Financial Times: Malawian schools teach malaria a lesson “In the Zomba district of Malawi, dozens of teachers have received training over the past four years [through the Malaria Treatment Programme for Schoolchildren] in how to diagnose and treat malaria, as part of a pioneering response to a disease that has…
Blog Post Discusses Opinion Piece Criticizing SDGs October 5, 2015 News Summary Development Policy Centre’s “DevPolicy Blog”: Easterly on the SDGs: utopian and worthless Ashlee Betteridge, research officer at the Development Policy Centre, discusses a Foreign Policy opinion piece written by William Easterly, economics professor at New York University, on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Betteridge notes Easterly “slams the goals for…
Negotiators Reach Deal On TPP; Congress To Analyze, Debate Pact October 5, 2015 News Summary New York Times: Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached “The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations on Monday agreed to the largest regional trade accord in history, a potentially precedent-setting model for global commerce and worker standards that would tie together 40 percent of the world’s economy, from…
Ebola Workers Remain Resilient, Continue To Respond To Disease In Sierra Leone October 5, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: Ebola in Sierra Leone: ‘Friends died from the very virus they fought against’ Isaac Bayoh, Ebola quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone, now working with Médicos del Mundo “Many things have changed here in Sierra Leone since I last wrote at Easter, when three-day lockdowns were…