Sierra Leone To Implement 3-Day Lockdown In Ebola Hotspots, Affecting Close To 2.5M People March 20, 2015 News Summary BBC News: Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone lockdown to hit 2.5m people “Sierra Leone is to enforce a three-day lockdown of key parts of the country to try to contain the Ebola epidemic. … A three-day curfew in September, keeping people at home under quarantine, was hailed as a success by…
Liberia To Pay $5K To Families Of HCWs Killed By Ebola March 20, 2015 News Summary Associated Press: Liberia: Families of health workers killed by Ebola get $5k “Liberia’s government has begun making payments to the families of health workers who died of Ebola in the world’s worst ever outbreak, an official said Thursday. … Ebola has killed 180 health workers in the country, according to…
News Outlets Discuss Various Aspects Of Ebola Recovery, From Disease Preparedness To Hunting For Virus’s Origin March 20, 2015 News Summary Devex: The case for EOCs post-Ebola “Emergency operation centers have been critical in stemming potential Ebola outbreaks in several West African countries like Nigeria and Mali, but there remain doubts about whether countries would keep them post-Ebola…” (Ravelo, 3/19). The Economist: Pandemic disease: Never again “…The [Ebola epidemic] suggests that…
Organizations, Media Should Keep General Public Engaged, Informed On Global Health Issues March 20, 2015 News Summary PLOS “Speaking of Medicine”: Engaging the Public on Global Health Blog contributor Sara Gorman “discusses the need to keep the general public engaged and informed on global health issues.” She cites the findings of a 2012 Kaiser Family Foundation survey of Americans on the U.S. role in global health and…
Series To Examine How Accountability, Country Ownership Can Advance U.S. Aid To Achieve Better Development Results March 20, 2015 News Summary Devex: Advancing U.S. foreign aid reform for better development results George Ingram, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Carolyn Miles, president and CEO of Save the Children; and Connie Veillette, senior fellow at the Lugar Center, and all co-chairs of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) “…[T]he Modernizing Foreign Assistance…
World Leaders Should Include Global Health Security In SDGs March 20, 2015 News Summary The Lancet: We need a sustainable development goal 18 on global health security Ilona Kickbusch of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva and colleagues “…The increasing recognition of global health security needs to be integrated into the post-2015 development agenda and SDGs. We propose to add…
Iranian Bills Aimed At Increasing Population Growth Use Women’s Rights As ‘Political Tools’ March 20, 2015 News Summary The Lancet: Family planning in Iran Editorial Board “Last week, Amnesty International published a report in response to changes in Iranian law, which they say ‘pose a major threat to the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls in Iran.’ … There are two bills currently under consideration.…
European Leaders Should Take ‘Concrete And Immediate Steps’ Against TB In Eastern Europe March 20, 2015 News Summary EurActiv: Political action is needed to stop Tuberculosis Evan Lee, vice president of global health programs at Eli Lilly and Co. and a member of the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board “On 30-31 March, Latvia will take advantage of its Presidency of the Council of the European Union to convene…
Longer Breastfeeding Associated With Higher IQ, Better Socioeconomic Status, Study Shows March 20, 2015 News Summary Humanosphere: Breastfeeding longer may contribute to later success, study finds “A new study from Brazil shows that children who breastfed longer had higher IQs and overall improved socioeconomic status,” Humanosphere reporter Tom Murphy writes about a study published this week in The Lancet Global Health, noting, “The big news is…
TB Patients In Swaziland, Surrounding Nations Should Undergo Further Testing To Determine Drug Resistance, Study Suggests March 20, 2015 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: MSF: More than a quarter of MDR-TB cases in Swaziland not caught by ‘front line of defense’ in fighting the disease Antigone Barton, writer and editor of “Science Speaks” and senior communications officer at the Center for Global Health Policy, reports on the…