WHO Calls For Global Action To Reach Goals Of ‘End TB Strategy’ March 23, 2015 News Summary WHO: WHO calls on the world to “Gear up to End TB” “As countries mark World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, WHO is calling for ‘global solidarity and action’ to support a new 20-year strategy, which aims to end the global tuberculosis epidemic. … WHO’s End TB Strategy, adopted by…
IHME Director Discusses Health Metrics In Humanosphere Podcast March 23, 2015 News Summary Humanosphere: Transforming global health with metrics: Chris Murray Humanosphere correspondent Gabe Spitzer notes Humanosphere founder and lead journalist Tom Paulson spoke with Chris Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, in last week’s podcast. “An institute of health metrics may sound to some like a…
USAID’s Chief Innovation Officer VanRoekel Steps Down, Agency Confirms March 20, 2015 News Summary FedScoop: Exclusive: Steven VanRoekel steps down from USAID role “Steven VanRoekel, the chief innovation officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development, has left his role with the agency, FedScoop has learned…” (Otto, 3/17). Washington Post: Steven VanRoekel steps down from USAID “…VanRoekel led an effort to bring technology into…
Food Aid To Cyclone-Hit Vanuatu Slow As PM Appeals For Assistance; UNICEF Dispatches Aid To Nearby Tuvalu March 20, 2015 News Summary Australian Associated Press: ‘Officials holding up Vanuatu food aid’ “No food aid packages have been distributed in Vanuatu, seven days after Cyclone Pam struck the island nation. It’s understood huge quantities of emergency food and other aid are sitting idle in the Vanuatu Mobile Force barracks in the capital Port…
Women’s Rights Groups Concerned Renegotiation Of Some SDGs Could Renew Debate Over Inclusion Of Reproductive Health Rights March 20, 2015 News Summary The Guardian: Women’s rights activists alarmed by U.K. unease over development targets “…The U.K. is understood to be unhappy with some of the targets contained in the proposed set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and wants to reopen negotiations. Women’s rights groups said on Thursday that renegotiating the targets at…
Improving WASH Access For Women Would Benefit Global Productivity, Economy, Report Says March 20, 2015 News Summary Forbes: Water Access Improvements Will Improve Global Productivity “The Water For Women report released [Friday] written by a private-public partnership for the United Nations World Water Day highlights how very much global productivity can rise if the access of the poorer half of the world’s population to water improves. ……
Threat Of Global Water Crisis Fuels Need To Better Manage Water Supply, U.N. Says March 20, 2015 News Summary News outlets report on findings from the U.N. World Water Development Report 2015. Deutsche Welle: U.N. calls for action as global water crisis looms “The U.N. has warned that the world will soon face a crisis of huge dimensions if water management does not improve. Population growth and climate change…
Emails Show WHO Senior Staff Delayed Declaring Ebola As Global Emergency, AP Reports March 20, 2015 News Summary Associated Press: Emails: U.N. health agency resisted declaring Ebola emergency “In a delay that some say may have cost lives, the World Health Organization resisted calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a public health emergency until last summer, two months after staff raised the possibility and long after a…
Guinea Struggles To Control Ebola Outbreak, Reports Highest Weekly Number Of Cases So Far This Year, WHO Says March 20, 2015 News Summary Reuters: Guinea says number of Ebola patients more than doubles since Feb “The number of suspected Ebola patients in Guinea has more than doubled from last month, the health ministry said on Thursday, highlighting a ‘fourth phase’ of the epidemic after a dip in cases in early 2015…” (Samb/Farge, 3/19).…