Blog Posts Look Back On 2016’s Top Global Health, Development Stories, Predict Top Stories Of 2017 January 3, 2017 News Summary Global Health Technologies Coalition’s “Breakthroughs”: A year in review: The top stories in global health innovation that shaped 2016 “…As the year comes to an end, GHTC is reflecting on the top stories in global health innovation that made news in 2016. Here are seven of those top moments…” (Kelley,…
CGD Blog Post Discusses Considerations For Donor Funding For Family Planning January 3, 2017 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “Global Health Policy Blog/U.S. Development Policy”: Global Family Planning Funding — What Should Funders Be Thinking About Now? Rachel Silverman, senior policy analyst at CGD, discusses donor funding for family planning, examining how potential U.S. funding cuts could affect global family planning efforts and suggesting questions…
Media Sources Examine Top Health, Development Stories Of 2016, Look Ahead To 2017 January 3, 2017 News Summary Devex: A year in review: Global development in 2016 “In development policy circles 2016 was branded a ‘year of action.’ With big global agreements in place, this was a year for implementation, for attention to the nuts and bolts of getting things done. There has been plenty of action –…
News Outlets Examine Potential Impacts Of Trump Administration On Women’s Health, Rights Worldwide January 3, 2017 News Summary Cosmopolitan: Trump’s Presidency Could Be Life-Threatening to Women All Over the World “…For women around the world, a Donald Trump/Mike Pence administration spells a policy of active hostility to reproductive rights and using U.S. dollars to hold other countries hostage to American abortion politics. For women who aren’t American and…
Zika Remains Threat To Pregnant Women, More Work Needed On Virus, CDC Director Says January 3, 2017 News Summary Reuters: More work lies ahead to fight Zika, other threats: CDC chief “A year ago, the mosquito-borne Zika virus was only beginning to reveal itself as a threat to pregnant women and their unborn babies. Since then, U.S. officials have issued 60 travel alerts along with guidance for athletes and…
PolitiFact Examines Global Development Efforts Of U.S. Congress January 3, 2017 News Summary PolitiFact: Fact-checking global development efforts in Congress “…An upbeat video from the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a network of hundreds of businesses and nonprofits, trumpets the bipartisan work of lawmakers on major pieces of legislation, from human trafficking and poaching to supporting power generation and small farmers. … We scrutinized…
WHO Needs Additional Funding To Implement New Pandemic Preparedness Plan January 3, 2017 News Summary Quartz: The WHO has a plan to save the world from the next pandemic — but it doesn’t have the money “…As a new year begins, the WHO is beginning to implement a new pandemic preparedness plan, so that countries around the world are ready for the next Ebola or…
G20 To Discuss Global Health Security, Outbreak Preparedness At Upcoming Summit January 3, 2017 News Summary Devex: Health is on G20’s agenda. Now what? “Concerns over disease outbreaks — and the threat they pose to international security — will for the first time feature prominently on the agenda of the upcoming Group of 20 summit. A coalition of development and relief agencies is using the opportunity…
More Cooperation Among Wealthy, Developing Nations Needed To Prevent, Stop Infectious Diseases Outbreaks, Bill Gates Says January 3, 2017 News Summary CNBC: We are vulnerable right now to a flu epidemic: Bill Gates “…Speaking to the BBC’s Today program, Bill Gates said that despite technological improvement, ‘we are a bit vulnerable right now’ to diseases that spread quickly. ‘There’s a lot of discussion right now about how we respond in an…