400K Children Face Severe Acute Malnutrition In Northeast Nigeria, UNICEF Says; One-Third Of Health Facilities In Region Destroyed, WHO Says December 15, 2016 News Summary Associated Press: UNICEF: 80,000 children will starve to death in Nigeria “Nearly a half million children will face starvation in northeastern Nigeria next year and 80,000 will die if they don’t get treatment in the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising, the U.N. children’s agency warned Tuesday…” (Faul,…
Zika Affected Fetuses, Newborns Of About 6% Of Infected Pregnant Women In U.S., Study Shows December 15, 2016 News Summary Reuters: Birth defects seen in 6 percent of Zika pregnancies: U.S. study “Roughly six percent of women in the United States who were infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy had fetuses or babies with birth defects, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. Of the 442 women in a U.S. Zika…
Deutsche Welle Profiles Indonesian ‘Eliminate Dengue’ Project’s Efforts To Control Mosquitoes December 15, 2016 News Summary Deutsche Welle: World in Progress: Fighting Dengue fever with mosquitoes “Dengue fever is spreading fast around the world — cropping up in countries where it has never been seen before and infecting 30 times as many people as it did half a century ago. A new method to prevent the…
Nature Profiles Data Expert Hans Rosling’s Efforts On Global Health, Poverty Reduction December 15, 2016 News Summary Nature: Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world “…[Hans] Rosling, a physician and epidemiologist, … is still trying to arm influential people with facts. He has become a trusted counselor and speaker of plain truth to United Nations leaders, billionaire executives such as Facebook’s Mark…
Unwavering Political Commitment Vital To Continued Progress Against Malaria December 15, 2016 News Summary The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Securing gains against malaria in uncertain times Editorial Board “…Despite the striking achievements [against malaria] so far, this is not the time for wavering political commitment — a risk given recent events. The outcome of the U.S. presidential election has created some nervousness about the future…
Republicans Must Carefully Assess U.S. Health Funding In Light Of Zika, Other Disease Outbreaks December 15, 2016 News Summary Los Angeles Times: The Zika disaster will test the GOP’s capacity to manage serious health care emergencies Michael Hiltzik, journalist and author “The Zika crisis, which seems to have faded from memory since it became a big news item this summer, has roared back with a vengeance, thanks to a…
New Report, Briefing Examine Impact Of Global Health Security Agenda’s Early Investments December 15, 2016 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Global Health Security Agenda measures early advances toward readiness to contain outbreaks Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” reports on a December 13 Capitol Hill briefing that examined the Global Health Security Agenda annual report, which summarizes progress and impacts from…
CGD Podcast Discusses Global Development With Outgoing CGD President December 15, 2016 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “CGD Podcast”: Development and the New Politics — Nancy Birdsall’s Final Podcast as CGD President In this podcast, Rajesh Mirchandani, vice president of communications and policy outreach at CGD, speaks with Nancy Birdsall, who is stepping down at the end of December as CGD president and…
Blog Examines Findings Of WHO World Malaria Report December 14, 2016 News Summary Humanosphere: WHO: Malaria control has improved for world’s most vulnerable Humanosphere journalist Lisa Nikolau discusses findings from WHO’s recently released 2016 World Malaria Report, noting that “the populations most vulnerable to malaria — pregnant women and children in sub-Saharan Africa — have seen markedly greater access to effective malaria control…