Global Community Must Integrate TB, HIV Efforts, Not Treat As Separate Diseases December 6, 2016 News Summary Huffington Post: Why Tuberculosis And HIV Have To Be Combated Together Rajesh Deshmukh, HIV-TB program officer with India’s National AIDS Control Organization “India has the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden and [is] the third highest HIV burden country in the world. … National and international studies indicate that an integrated approach…
Special Issue Of Global Health Governance Available Online December 6, 2016 News Summary Global Health Governance: Special Issue: Political Science in Global Health This special issue of Global Health Governance features articles on various topics, including political science research in global health politics and policy, framing global health as a human rights issue, and international relations and the global politics of health (12/5).
U.S. Military’s HIV Prevention Program Responds To Disease In American Troops, Assists Other Militaries December 6, 2016 News Summary Defense Video Imagery Distribution System: The U.S. Military’s Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Spreading Cooperation While Stopping the Spread of Disease Rick Shaffer, director of the U.S. Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP) at the Naval Health Research Center, discusses the U.S. military’s efforts to respond to HIV in U.S.…
Global Philanthropic Funding For HIV/AIDS Reaches Highest Level Since 2008, FCAA Report Says December 6, 2016 News Summary Funders Concerned About AIDS: New Funders Concerned About AIDS Report Shows Highest Philanthropic Funding Point Since 2008 “Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA), the leading voice on philanthropic resources for the global AIDS epidemic, [last week] released its 14th annual Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS report. This year’s findings indicate that…
Progress On HIV Viral Load Testing In 7 Sub-Saharan African Nations; Challenges Persist, Require International Support December 6, 2016 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: HIV viral load testing capacities progress, require global support, multiple partners to reach 90-90-90 goals Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses a report recently published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that examined the implementation of and…
Sub-Saharan African Political Leaders Must Commit To Effective, Constructive Communication Regarding HIV Prevention, Treatment, Blog Post Says December 6, 2016 News Summary PLOS Blogs’ “Translational Global Health”: A Call for Courage in Uncertain Times: Curbing HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa through Political Leadership Abraar Karan, an MPH candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a graduate of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and Thomas J. Coates, director…
U.N. Office For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs Appeals For Record $22.2B For 2017 December 5, 2016 News Summary Associated Press: U.N. humanitarian aid agency: Record $22.2B needed in 2017 “The U.N.’s humanitarian aid coordination agency says it and partners require a record $22.2 billion next year to help people hit by conflict and disasters around the world, a 10 percent increase from this year…” (Keaten, 12/5). The Guardian:…
DfID Releases First Multilateral, Bilateral Aid Reviews Since 2011 December 5, 2016 News Summary Devex: Winners and losers in DfID’s new Multilateral Aid Review “The Department for International Development has released its first Multilateral Development Review since 2011, outlining priorities for future multilateral spending and identifying strengths and weaknesses among its 37 multilateral partners. Multilateral organizations the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,…
Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $360M Over 5 Years To Implement Anti-Tobacco Initiatives In LMICs December 5, 2016 News Summary Wall Street Journal: Bloomberg Expands Effort to Curb Tobacco Use Worldwide “Former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his fortune over the past decade fighting tobacco use in the developing world. Now, with cigarette use declining globally, he is…