Kaiser Family Foundation Releases Analysis Of FY16 Global Health Budget Request March 12, 2015 News Summary Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Global Health Budget: Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis examines President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget request, which “proposed $9.9 billion in specified funding for global health programs. If enacted by Congress, this would represent a…
U.S. Supports Gender Equality, Empowerment Of Women, Girls As Part Of Development Agenda March 12, 2015 News Summary U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Our Next ‘Beijing Moment’: Achieving Gender Equality by 2030 Catherine Russell, ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues; Tony Pipa, the U.S. special coordinator for the post-2015 development agenda; and Daniella Ballou-Aares, the secretary of state’s senior adviser for development, discuss U.S. support for gender equality and…
USAID’s Report To Congress On Health-Related R&D Shows Progress, Challenges March 12, 2015 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: USAID report and launch show varying degrees of progress on global health research goals Antigone Barton, writer and editor of “Science Speaks” and senior communications officer at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses highlights from the launch of USAID’s Health-Related Research and…
Third Blog Post In Series Examines China’s History Of Artemisinin Drug Development March 12, 2015 News Summary Council on Foreign Relation’s “Asia Unbound”: Artemisinin’s Rocky Road to Globalization: Part III In part three of his series on anti-malarial artemisinin drugs, Yanzhong Huang, CFR senior fellow for global health, explores China’s efforts to increase its market share of artemisinin-based combination therapies worldwide. “…To sum up, China has come…
USGLC Highlights Public-Private Partnership That Supports Refugees In South Sudan March 12, 2015 News Summary U.S. Global Leadership Coalition: A Public-Private Partnership that’s Saving Refugees and Rescuing Aid Workers David Stein, policy associate at USGLC, marks Global Partnership Week and discusses how “forward-thinking businesses and nonprofits have been working with the U.S. government in innovative ways to tackle some of the toughest challenges in global…
Ketamine Is ‘Essential Medicine,’ Should Not Be Restricted Under U.N. Conventions March 12, 2015 News Summary Global Health Hub: Ketamine is an essential medicine: an update from the frontline Jason Nickerson, a clinical scientist with the Bruyère Research Institute, discusses a Chinese proposal to the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs to place “restrictive controls” on ketamine, an anesthetic used in many low-resource settings. He writes, “…While…
2.5M Lives Saved Since 2010 Under U.N.’s Every Woman Every Child Partnership March 11, 2015 News Summary Reuters: Child and maternal deaths tumble, East Africa leads the way: U.N. “Maternal and child death rates fell in every one of the poorest 49 countries in the world between 2010 and 2013, largely as a result of a U.N. initiative launched in 2010, the world body said on Tuesday…”…
WHO Announces Formation Of Independent Panel To Assess Agency’s Ebola Response March 11, 2015 News Summary Associated Press: WHO creates independent panel to assess its Ebola response “The World Health Organization says it has created a panel of independent experts to assess its response to the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak in history. … The panel will be chaired by Barbara Stocking, a former chief executive of Oxfam…
Researchers Hit Snags In Testing Ebola Treatments, Vaccines March 11, 2015 News Summary Al Jazeera America: Why we’re still waiting on an Ebola vaccine “Since Ebola hit [Freetown, Sierra Leone,] last summer, nurses at Connaught Hospital have put their lives on the line by working with patients at risk of the deadly disease. Now researchers aim to recruit them as well as ambulance…