Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
Devex: Biometrics disagreement leads to food aid suspension in Yemen “An impasse over use of biometric data led the World Food Programme to partially suspend its delivery of food aid in warn-torn Yemen last week, raising questions about the use of such technology in humanitarian contexts. The Houthis, who control…
CIDRAP News: FAO launches new vehicle to fund antimicrobial resistance (Soucheray, 6/20). Devex: ‘Unacceptable workplace behaviors’ at UNICEF, leaked report summary says (Lieberman, 6/21). Inter Press Service: Poor Outlook for HIV-positive Children in Pakistan (Munns, 6/20). The Lancet: India: health workers strike after attack on junior doctor (Sharma, 6/22). The…
The Lancet: The politics of PHEIC Editorial Board “An emergency committee decided on June 14 that the current Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo did not warrant a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). … We disagree. The decision appears more political than technical…
CNN: The world is failing women and girls in crisis, but feminism can help David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee “…[T]he world will continue to fail in its commitment to achieve gender equality until we take seriously the power differentials that drive these inequities — until…
New Humanitarian: On World Refugee Day, the challenges facing a record 25 million refugees “The U.N. estimates the number of refugees has reached a record high — nearly 26 million worldwide, not counting the tens of millions internally displaced within their own countries, nor millions more rendered stateless. The majority…
U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Stepping up to the Challenge: U.S. Leadership in Humanitarian Response Carol Thompson O’Connell, acting assistant secretary in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration at the State Department, recognizes World Refugee Day, which takes place annually on June 20, and discusses ways in which the…
ABC: ‘We need more money’: Fight to eradicate AIDS, malaria, and TB rages on (Kelly, 6/20). Associated Press: U.N. health agency to remove controversial opioid guidelines (Galofaro, 6/19). BBC News: Why are women declining this surgery? (Bryce/Udobang, 6/19). CIDRAP News: Urban wildlife may add to antibiotic resistance threat (Soucheray, 6/19).…
Reuters: Northeast Congo insecurity hampers response to measles outbreak “Insecurity in northeast Congo has hampered a measles vaccination drive and forced people to flee their homes, local responders said on Wednesday, complicating efforts to control the spread of a virus that has killed more people [than] Ebola this year. At…
U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Amelia Apgar, intern at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, recognizes the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, which takes place annually on June 19, and discusses…
Al Jazeera: Who is bombing hospitals in Syria? Rashed al-Ahmad, pharmacist from Hama, northern Syria “…About three years ago, doctors at my health center had to decide whether to share the building’s coordinates with the U.N. As part of its deconfliction mechanism, the U.N. shares the coordinates of humanitarian facilities…