Collaboration, Partnership Among Many Sectors Can Improve Health Access Worldwide March 11, 2015 News Summary Huffington Post: Hurdling the Health Access Barrier Cassie Chandler, global manager of microfinance and health protection at Freedom from Hunger “…Whether in Asia, Latin America, or Africa, one of the most significant barriers to good health is being able to access health services in a timely manner. There are a…
Universal Sex Education Agenda Not Compatible With Global Diversity March 11, 2015 News Summary Foreign Affairs: Can Sex Education Be Universal? Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of education and history at New York University “…Since the 1960s, Americans have split into two camps on sex education: one side wants to teach kids how to make choices about sex, and the other wants to teach them to…
USAID’s DART Arranges Ship Transport Of Ebola-Killing Chlorine To Guinea, Sierra Leone March 11, 2015 News Summary USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: USAID Takes to the High Seas to Bring Reinforcements to Guinea’s Ebola Fight Carol Han, strategic communications leader at USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, discusses efforts by USAID’s Ebola Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to safely deliver high test hypochlorite (HTH), a substance used “to kill…
Accurate Maternal Health Indicators Critical For Measuring Progress March 11, 2015 News Summary Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: Measuring Maternal Health in a Post-MDG World Linnea Bennet, an intern with the Environmental Change and Security Program, recaps a December Wilson Center panel discussion examining the challenges around determining, collecting, and evaluating maternal health data to accurately measure…
Learning From PEPFAR’s Investment In HIV Treatment March 10, 2015 News Summary New York Times: Letters to the Editor: Strategies to Fight HIV Eran Bendavid, assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University “The article ‘U.S. Push for Abstinence in Africa Is Seen as Failure Against HIV’ (Feb. 27) suggests that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) dismissed invitations to perform…
High-Level U.N. Meeting On Gender Equality Opens, Adopts Declaration Reaffirming 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference Outcomes March 10, 2015 News Summary U.N. News Centre: Adopting political declaration, U.N. urges world to ‘step it up’ to ensure gender equality by 2030 “As women thrive, so will humanity but if girls are held back, the whole world will feel the pain, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the high-level opening of the United Nations body…
U.N. Women Official Discusses Progress, Challenges In Achieving Global Gender Equality In PBS NewsHour Interview March 10, 2015 News Summary PBS NewsHour: Can we achieve global gender equality by 2030? “Twenty years since the U.N. announced a major effort to reduce global gender inequality, women and girls today are far from getting equal treatment and participation in society, while violence against females is commonplace. Lakshmi Puri of U.N. Women joins…
‘No Ceilings’ Report On Women Shows Progress Made On Gender Equality, Health Access But More Remains To Be Done March 10, 2015 News Summary News outlets discuss the release of the “No Ceilings” report from the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other partners. Agence France-Presse: Hillary Clinton says ‘not there yet’ on women’s equality “Two women with global clout — Hillary Clinton and Melinda Gates –…
Inequalities In Legal Rights For Women, Girls Exist In 170 Nations, Report Shows March 10, 2015 News Summary News outlets discuss “Closing the Gender Gap,” a new report by UCLA’s WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) on inequalities in legal rights among women and girls worldwide. The Guardian: Legal barriers prevent women’s empowerment in more than 170 countries “Twenty years after the historic Beijing conference on women’s empowerment, more…