Warmer Temperatures, Increased Rainfall Threaten Expansion Of Mosquito-Borne Diseases To U.K., Study Suggests March 24, 2015 News Summary Thomson Reuters Foundation: Deadly mosquito-borne diseases could threaten U.K. within decades, experts warn “Mosquitoes carrying deadly diseases including dengue fever and West Nile virus could become widespread across Britain within decades due to climate change, health experts said on Monday…” (Guilbert, 3/23).
Parliamentarians Play ‘Critical Role’ To Increase Funding For, Focus On TB Prevention, Control March 24, 2015 News Summary Thomson Reuters Foundation: Spread of drug-resistant TB must be stopped to avoid catastrophe Kalikesh Singh Deo, a member of the Indian parliament, and Nick Herbert, a British lawmaker and co-chair of the U.K. All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB (APPG TB) “…There is an urgent need for increased funding…
Providing Access To Clean Water In Villages Can Reduce Burden On Women, Girls March 24, 2015 News Summary Huffington Post: The Most Important Women’s Issue You’ve Never Heard of Richard Stearns, president of World Vision “…In developing countries, women and children — usually girls — spend 140 million hours each day fetching water, equivalent to a workforce of 25 million working eight hour days. That’s why I think…
New Blog Series Explores Impacts Of WASH On Achieving MDGs March 24, 2015 News Summary Huffington Post: WASH and the MDGs: The Ripple Effect Needa Malik, research assistant at WASH Advocates, and Jordan Teague, associate director for WASH Integration at WASH Advocates “2015 is an important year in the global development arena. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will expire at the end of this year,…
CDC Blog Posts Discuss Issues Surrounding TB, MDR-TB March 24, 2015 News Summary CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: A Consequence of Conflict: The Spread of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Nadine Sunderland of the CDC discusses issues surrounding multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Somalia, including preventing, diagnosing, and treating the disease (3/23). CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: An Ounce of Prevention: Why we must strengthen basic TB control to…
Collaborative Efforts Of U.S. Response To Ebola In West Africa Will Help End Epidemic March 24, 2015 News Summary U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: A Collaborative, Unified Ebola Response Steven A. Browning, the State Department’s special coordinator for Ebola response, discusses his role and the collaborative efforts of the U.S. response to Ebola in West Africa. He concludes, “To effectively end this crisis means each day we have to…
‘Risk-Informed Investments’ Vital To Ending Extreme Poverty March 24, 2015 News Summary USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: From Hyogo to Sendai: A New Action Plan for Resilience Thomas H. Staal, acting assistant administrator for USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), discusses his participation in last week’s Third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan. He highlights three themes of…
Real Transformation Through Aid ‘Takes Broad-Based Institutional Development’ March 24, 2015 News Summary Center for Global Development’s “Rethinking U.S. Development Policy”: Wiping Out Poverty with a New (Old) Aid Strategy Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, writes about different development aid strategies, arguing real change does not come “from handing out free bed nets or providing fifty-cent transfers…
‘Global Fund News Flash’ Special Edition Highlights World TB Day March 24, 2015 News Summary Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Global Fund News Flash A special edition of the Global Fund News Flash highlights World Tuberculosis Day with articles focusing on efforts to detect and treat TB in Latin America, Asia, and Africa (3/24).