Multilateral Health Programs Receive Top Ratings On U.K. Aid Agency Report Card December 13, 2016 News Summary New York Times: British Officials Issue a Report Card on Aid Organizations “In a ‘value for money’ assessment released this month, Britain’s foreign aid agency gave top ratings to three organizations to which it donates: the World Bank; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and Gavi, the…
On 70th Anniversary, UNICEF Says Conflict Reversing Gains For Children In Middle East, North Africa December 13, 2016 News Summary U.N. News Centre: Conflict threatens decades of progress for children in Middle East, North Africa — UNICEF “Although countries across the Middle East and North Africa have made major strides in protecting children’s rights and wellbeing since the inception of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 70 years ago, conflict…
2.2M Children Need Urgent Care In Yemen, With 462K At Risk Of Starvation, UNICEF Report Says December 13, 2016 News Summary Al Jazeera: UNICEF: One child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen “More than 400,000 children are at risk of starvation in Yemen, with nearly 2.2 million in need of urgent care, according to the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF…” (12/12). Deutsche Welle: U.N. agency reports 2.2 million Yemeni children hungry and…
U.N. Inaugurates Water Capture, Distribution System In Haiti As Part Of Cholera Efforts December 13, 2016 News Summary U.N. News Centre: U.N. inaugurates water project in Haiti benefiting 60,000 people as part of fight against cholera “Sandra Honoré, the special representative of the secretary general (SRSG) for Haiti and head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), inaugurated on 8 December a water capture and distribution…
Africa Must Break Complacency, Invest In Agriculture To Feed Its Population By 2050, Report Says December 13, 2016 News Summary Thomson Reuters Foundation: Africa must act now if it is to feed itself in 2050: scientists “Africa will be able to grow enough cereals to feed its growing population by 2050, but only if it breaks a culture of complacency and starts now to invest more in agriculture, scientists said…
Scientists, Experts Working To Catalog Unknown Viruses In World December 13, 2016 News Summary STAT: Finding the world’s unknown viruses — before they find us “…[T]he Global Virome Project … has proposed cataloging nearly all of the unknown viruses lurking in nature around the world. In a nutshell … experts want to search out mystery threats before they find us. The idea has been…
U.N. Must ‘Take Concrete Steps’ To Eradicate Cholera In Haiti, Compensate Affected Families, Communities December 13, 2016 News Summary Washington Post: The United Nations comes clean(ish) on cholera in Haiti Editorial Board “More than six years after a brigade of U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal introduced cholera in Haiti, triggering an epidemic that has killed at least 10,000 and sickened many more, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has finally uttered the…
USAID Supports Ebola-Affected Communities In Rebuilding Health Centers December 13, 2016 News Summary USAID’s “Frontlines”/Medium: After Ebola, Health Centers Rebuild Trust with Their Communities – Literally and Figuratively Beatrice M. Spadacini, senior communications adviser in USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, discusses USAID’s efforts to help Ebola-affected communities in Guinea and Sierra Leone rebuild their health centers “while encouraging communities to take ownership of…
WHO Official Urges President-Elect Trump To Expand Obamacare, Improve Access To Health Care For All Americans December 12, 2016 News Summary Reuters: WHO urges Trump to expand Obamacare, ensure health care for all “The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to expand Obamacare and ensure all Americans have access to health care. The real estate magnate takes office next month after promising to repeal outgoing President…