Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
New York Times Examines Visa Laws Effects On People Living With HIV/AIDS The New York Times examines a recent report by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch that says visa restrictions for people living with HIV/AIDS have been shown to jeopardize their health. “About a third of the world’s countries…
PAHO’s board this week is set to discuss “a long-standing system that makes vaccines affordable to middle-income Latin American countries” because of growing concerns that the policy “deters manufacturers from offering deeper discounts on such products to the world’s least developed countries,” the Financial Times reports.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday at the Rotary International (RI) Annual Convention in Birmingham, U.K., said that governments worldwide should continue to work towards eradicating polio, BBC reports.
Senate Passes Bill Including Flu Funds The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a $105.9 billion war-funding bill that “includes $7.7 billion to prepare for pandemic flu,” the Washington Post reports (Bacon, Washington Post, 6/19). South Africa Confirms First Case of H1N1 Also on Thursday, South Africa’s Department of Health confirmed…
The drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis will donate millions of doses of a vaccine that offers protection against the H1N1 (swine flu) virus to the WHO once the vaccine is ready, the company’s chief executive officer announced Tuesday, Reuters reports.
WHO To Investigate Reported Bubonic Plague Cases In Libya The WHO is sending a team to investigate an apparent bubonic plague outbreak in Libya after authorities reported detecting between 16 and 18 cases of the disease in the coastal town of Tubruq, Reuters reports. John Jabbour, a Cairo-based emerging diseases…
The Globe and Mail examines GlaxoSmithKline’s RTS,S malaria vaccine trials in Kilifi, Kenya – one of the sites where the experimental vaccine is being tested.
Finance ministers from Italy, Canada and Russia Friday voiced their support for a program aimed at lowering the prices of vaccines for developing countries, the AFP/Google.com reports.
Reuters examines the WHO’s battle against H1N1 (swine flu) virus in “[d]eveloping countries, where medical care systems are weak and supplies of antivirals insufficient.”
The Wall Street Journal examines a $1.5 billion program supported by Italy, the U.K., Canada, Russia, Norway and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that hopes “to encourage pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines for diseases common to poor countries,” which is expected to be announced Friday “on the sidelines of a meeting of top finance officials from the Group of Eight major industrial powers.”
