Marie Stopes International Official Discusses Mexico City Policy Reinstatement With Global Health NOW February 7, 2017 News Summary Global Health NOW: The Trumped Up Gag Rule and Women’s Health “One of U.S. President Trump’s first moves in office was signing an executive order to bring back the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule. … Trump took the gag rule a step further: he expanded…
U.N., Experts Call For End To FGM On International Day Of Zero Tolerance February 7, 2017 News Summary Thomson Reuters Foundation: “Medicalization” of female genital mutilation is serious threat — experts “A growing trend for midwives and nurses to carry out female genital mutilation (FGM) is undermining global efforts to eradicate the internationally condemned practice, experts have warned. Morissanda Kouyate head of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices…
Perpetuation Of FGM Based On Cultural Evolution, Researchers Say; Understanding Could Be Important For Prevention Efforts February 7, 2017 News Summary Agence France-Presse: Female genital cutting has ‘evolutionary’ drive: study “The widely condemned practice of ceremonial genital mutilation among girls and young women follows an evolutionary logic, according to a provocative study published Monday. Understanding this logic — which the researchers described as ‘cultural,’ not biological — may help fulfill the…
New York Times Examines Innovations In Cholera Treatment, Vaccination, Spearheaded By Bangladesh’s ICDDR,B February 7, 2017 News Summary New York Times: Turning the Tide Against Cholera “…[Cholera] is a continuing threat in nearly 70 countries, where more than one billion people are at risk. Now, thanks largely to efforts that began in cholera’s birthplace, [Bangladesh,] a way to finally conquer the long-dreaded plague is in sight. A treatment…
Petition From Venezuela Urges Global Fund To Bend Rules On Funding For High-Income Countries February 7, 2017 News Summary ScienceInsider: Venezuela is running short on HIV meds — and places to turn for help “On top of its currency being in free fall for three years running, empty shelves at supermarkets, and electricity rationing, Venezuela has a serious shortage of medicines, including life-saving anti-HIV drugs. This led a network…
U.N. Secretary-General Guterres Urges U.S. To Maintain Funding For U.N. Agencies February 7, 2017 News Summary Wall Street Journal: U.N. Chief Presses U.S. to Keep Up Its Support “Secretary-General António Guterres urged the U.S. not to scale back its support for the United Nations, saying that any move to defund or disengage from the world body would pave the way for other nations to fill in…
Global Fund Partnership Aims To Address Obstacles To Malaria Elimination February 7, 2017 News Summary Thomson Reuters Foundation: Failing drugs and superbugs: the race to eliminate malaria Izaskun Gaviria, senior fund portfolio manager at the Global Fund-supported Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative (RAI) “…[D]espite a general downward trend for malaria, antimalarial drug resistance is getting worse quickly, now with resistance to both artemisinin and the partner drug…
Rachel Carson’s Criticism Of DDT Focused On Industry’s ‘Indiscriminate’ Use Of ‘Biologically Potent Chemicals’ February 7, 2017 News Summary Los Angeles Times: Rachel Carson, ‘mass murderer’? A right-wing myth is poised for a reappearance Michael Hiltzik, columnist at the Los Angeles Times “Rachel Carson has been both a hero to environmentalists and the bane of the chemical and pesticide industries … ever since the 1962 publication of her seminal…
‘Science Speaks’ Profiles New Members Of U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittees February 7, 2017 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: 115th Congress and Global Health: New Democrats for House State and Foreign Operations, Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittees Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” profiles the new members of two House Appropriations subcommittees including Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) and Rep.…