Trump Administration Issues Guidance On Mexico City Policy Implementation For Family Planning Assistance; Application To Other Global Health Assistance Expected Later, PAI Reports March 7, 2017 News Summary PAI’s “Washington Memo”: One Down, the Rest to Go: Global Gag Rule Reimposed on Family Planning In this newsletter, PAI describes the publication of the new “Mexico City Policy (March 2017)” section in the guidance governing USAID funding to overseas nongovernmental organization (NGO) partners. The section “is ‘applicable to all…
White House To Propose ‘Fairly Dramatic Reductions In Foreign Aid,’ OMB Director Says; Secretary Of State Tillerson Suggests Making Cuts Over 3 Years March 6, 2017 News Summary Associated Press: Officials: Tillerson eyes State Dept budget cut over 3 years “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has agreed in principle to a White House proposal to slash foreign aid and diplomatic spending by 37 percent, but wants to spread it out over three years rather than in one dramatic…
Trump Administration Releases First Official Guidance On Mexico City Policy Implementation March 6, 2017 News Summary Devex: Trump issues first guidelines on ‘global gag rule’ implementation “The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has issued the first official guidance for implementation of the Mexico City policy, also known as the ‘global gag rule.’ The roll-out of the standard provisions, issued Friday … effectively make the global…
Vox Examines Reasons Trump Administration Unprepared To Address Disease Outbreaks March 6, 2017 News Summary Vox: Trump has set the U.S. up to botch a global health crisis “…[T]he chances of the U.S. being hit with some kind of pandemic in the next four years is high. (The U.S. is already fighting Zika within its borders …) Based on what we’ve seen from President Donald…
Devex Interviews UNFPA Executive Director About Family Planning’s Role In SDGs, Future Of Funding March 6, 2017 News Summary Devex: Q&A: UNFPA’s Babatunde Osotimehin on family planning in the face of uncertainty “…Among those speaking [last week at the She Decides conference] was Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund and former minister of health of Nigeria. He told Devex that the conference and fund was…
More Than One Quarter Of Child Deaths Worldwide Attributable To Polluted Environments, WHO Says March 6, 2017 News Summary CNN: Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children each year, WHO says “Each year, environmental pollutants cost an estimated 1.7 million lives among children under five, according to World Health Organization reports released Monday…” (Senthilingam, 3/5). Reuters: Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children a year: WHO “A quarter of all global…
Secretary Of State Tillerson’s Memo To OMB Asking To Restore Some Cuts To State, USAID Signals ‘He Intends To Fight For His Department’s Mission’ March 6, 2017 News Summary Washington Post: Tillerson pushes back on White House’s proposed cuts to State Department and USAID Josh Rogin, columnist for the Washington Post’s Global Opinions section “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is pushing back against the White House’s proposal to drastically slash funding for diplomacy and development, a sign he intends…
WHO Should Revise ‘Priority Pathogen’ List To Include Tuberculosis March 6, 2017 News Summary Financial Times: Letter to the editor: A baffling omission from the ‘priority pathogen’ list Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership; Mel Spigelman, president and CEO of the TB Alliance and co-chair of the Working Group on New Drugs at the Stop TB Partnership; and José Luis Castro,…
2016 Cures Act, FDA Reforms Could Help Streamline, Strengthen R&D Efforts To Find New Antibiotics March 6, 2017 News Summary Wall Street Journal: The Superbug Dirty Dozen Editorial Board “…[T]he superbug problem has been well understood and managed since the George W. Bush administration. CDC surveillance, physician education, and infection-control protocols have led to more prudent use of antibiotics. … Still, a study in the Journal of the American Medical…