Middle East’s Gulf States, Donors Well-Positioned To Help Improve Global Health March 10, 2015 News Summary Arabian Business: Bill Gates: Why I’m betting on the Gulf to help fight extreme poverty and disease Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…I saw the Middle East’s role in global health first-hand in late January, at a conference in Berlin dedicated to providing life-saving vaccines…
Better Coordination, Adequate Resources Needed To Accelerate Progress Against Malnutrition March 10, 2015 News Summary Inter Press Service: Opinion: The World Sees Progress Against Undernutrition, but it’s Uneven Jomo Kwame Sundaram, coordinator for economic and social development at the Food and Agriculture Organization “…Overall progress [against malnutrition] has been highly uneven. … In countries where low undernourishment coexists with high malnutrition, specially designed nutrition-enhancing interventions…
Aid Organizations Must Heed Mental Health Of Their Workers March 10, 2015 News Summary New York Times: A Crisis of Anxiety Among Aid Workers Rosalie Hughes, freelance journalist and former employee of the U.N. refugee agency and other relief organizations “…Rates of clinical depression among aid workers are double those of American adults. … Yet mental health support for the estimated 250,000 humanitarian workers…
Second Blog Post In Series Examines China’s History Of Artemisinin Drug Development March 10, 2015 News Summary Council on Foreign Relation’s “Asia Unbound”: Artemisinin’s Rocky Road to Globalization: Part II In part two of his series on anti-malarial artemisinin drugs, Yanzhong Huang, CFR senior fellow for global health, explores the challenges China faced in marketing its artemisinin-based combination therapies worldwide. “…The 2004-2006 artemisinin bubble nevertheless has not…
New Issue Of ‘Global Health: Science And Practice’ Journal Available Online March 10, 2015 News Summary Global Health: Science and Practice Journal: March 2015 The new issue of the “Global Health: Science and Practice Journal” features articles on various topics, including antiretroviral therapies, contraception, and family planning services, among others (March 2015).
U.N., U.S. Leaders Urge Gender Equality On International Women’s Day March 9, 2015 News Summary Media outlets report on issues surrounding International Women’s Day, recognized on March 8. Associated Press/The Guardian: Gender equality still decades away, says chief of U.N. Women “…Twenty years after 189 countries adopted a blueprint to achieve equality for women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said that not a single country has reached gender…
Hillary Clinton To Launch New Report On Status Of Women At NY Event With Chelsea Clinton, Melinda Gates March 9, 2015 News Summary Politico: Clinton Foundation to unveil report on status of women “Hillary Clinton is set to unveil her long-anticipated report on the state of women and girls across the world [in New York] Monday … Clinton will be joined by a roster of influential women — including her collaborators in the…
36 Prominent Women Sign Petition Calling For G7, A.U. To Address Women’s Poverty, Equality March 9, 2015 News Summary Agence France-Presse: Beyoncé, Gaga join call to tackle female poverty “Beyoncé Knowles and Lady Gaga are among 36 prominent women who have signed a petition calling Sunday on the G7 and the African Union to tackle female poverty. … The petition was organized by the London-based non-governmental organization ONE, founded…
Funding Shortage Forces WFP To Reduce Food Aid To Syrian Refugees In Turkey March 9, 2015 News Summary Agence France-Presse: U.N. shrinks food aid to Syria refugees in Turkey as cash low “The United Nations food agency said Friday it had been forced to withdraw aid from nine Syrian refugee camps in Turkey due to a lack of funds, calling on donors to step up…” (3/6). U.N. News…