Pledges For Syrian Humanitarian Aid Fall Short Of Target April 2, 2015 News Summary Inter Press Service: Pledges for Humanitarian Aid to Syria Fall Short of Target by Billions “…[United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s] appeal for a hefty 8.4 billion dollars in humanitarian aid fell short of its target — despite great-hearted efforts by three major donors: the European Commission (E.C.) and its member…
Media Focused Too Much On ‘Doom And Gloom’ Message Of U.N. Water Report, Author Says April 2, 2015 News Summary Inter Press Service: U.N. Water Report Not “Doom And Gloom”, Says Author “The lead author of a United Nations water report has spoken out about media depictions of his findings, denying the report lays out a ‘doom and gloom’ scenario. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2015, released on Mar.…
CDC, State Department Blog Posts Discuss Ebola, Response Efforts April 1, 2015 News Summary CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: Working collaboratively to support Ebola response efforts in Sierra Leone Bao-Ping Zhu, CDC Epidemiologist and Uganda FETP resident adviser, discusses his trip to Sierrra Leone and the CDC’s response efforts to work collaboratively with other partners to end the Ebola outbreak (3/31). U.S. Department of State’s…
State Department, USAID Blog Posts Discuss Humanitarian Response To Crisis In Syria April 1, 2015 News Summary U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Syria: ‘The Greatest Humanitarian Crisis in a Generation Demands the Response of a Generation’ The blog post discusses U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power’s comments at the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria (3/31). USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: Why You Should Still Care About Syria…
Mapping Health Facilities Accurately Saves Lives April 1, 2015 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Mapping health facilities supports accountability, saves lives Anita Datar, senior policy adviser for the Health Policy Project at Futures Group, discusses the importance of using accurate data for mapping health facilities (3/31).
Humanosphere Provides Roundup Of Recent Global Health News April 1, 2015 News Summary Humanosphere: News in the Humanosphere: Syria humanitarian pledging conference kicks off in Kuwait Humanosphere reporter Tom Murphy provides a roundup of recent global health news, including the start of a pledging conference for humanitarian aid to Syria (3/31).
GHTC Provides Roundup Of Recent Global Health Research News April 1, 2015 News Summary Global Health Technologies Coalition’s “Breakthroughs”: Research Roundup: clinical trials for experimental Ebola vaccines, genetic traits that affect malaria risk, and progress toward a hookworm vaccine Kat Kelley, senior program assistant at GHTC, highlights some of the past week’s news in global health research (3/30).
Special Issue Shares Experience Of Scaling Up Maternal, Newborn Health Care In Uganda April 1, 2015 News Summary Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: How to Bend the Curve on Newborn Mortality — Key Learnings from Uganda Peter Waiswa, Ugandan medical doctor and health systems researcher; Stefan Swartling Peterson, public health physician and professor of Global Health at Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, and Makerere University; and Mariam…
Vigilance Needed To Prevent Polio Re-emergence In Ukraine April 1, 2015 News Summary GlobalPost: In the midst of conflict, Ukraine’s children are vulnerable to polio outbreak John Hewko, general secretary of Rotary International “While the global health community has been rightly focused on containing West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak, a potential health crisis involving another infectious virus — polio — worries many of…