E.U. Must Ensure Trade Policy Makes ‘Real Contribution’ To SDGs, Does Not Promote Ill-Health May 24, 2018 News Summary EURACTIV: The E.U. is no progressive free trader: It’s exporting chronic diseases to Latin America George Thurley, policy officer on Healthy Trade at European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) “…[T]rade deals bring trade-offs, and the E.U. has apparently chosen to put the trade goals of European tobacco companies ahead of their…
Laws, Policies In Every Nation Should Ensure Women Have Access To Family Planning Services, Including Safe Abortions May 24, 2018 News Summary The Telegraph: How legal restrictions on abortion are harming women all over the world Ann M. Starrs, president of the Guttmacher Institute “…According to a recent study conducted jointly by WHO and the Guttmacher Institute, the overwhelming majority of abortions are safe in countries where the procedure is broadly legal,…
Michel Sidibé Should Voluntarily Suspend Himself As UNAIDS Executive Director While Expert Panel Examines His Response To Sexual Misconduct Claims At Agency May 24, 2018 News Summary The Lancet: Offline: Sexual and reproductive rights — health and hypocrisy Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet “…Michel Sidibé has done much that is good at UNAIDS. … And yet his responses to allegations of sexual misconduct at UNAIDS have been disappointing. … [T]he growing schism over his leadership only…
‘Science Speaks’ Examines U.S. Support For Global Health Security At WHA, Contradictory Actions Of Trump Administration May 24, 2018 News Summary IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: U.S. voices strong support for health security in Geneva while curtailing support in Washington Rabita Aziz, writer at “Science Speaks” and senior global health policy specialist at IDSA, discusses U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar’s remarks to the World Health Assembly on strengthening global…
Global Frameworks Recognize Link Between Malaria, Food Security May 24, 2018 News Summary Tropical Health Matters: Global Frameworks Link Malaria and Food Security Bill Brieger, professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses the link between malaria and food security in three global frameworks: the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the Sustainable…
WHO Provides Updates On Topics Addressed At 71st WHA May 24, 2018 News Summary WHO: Seventy-First World Health Assembly update, 23 May This post provides an update on topics addressed at the 71st World Health Assembly, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak; a report from the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme; health conditions in the…
USAID Works With Ugandan Government To Scale Up Child Nutrition Interventions May 24, 2018 News Summary U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Fighting Malnutrition Through Diversified Diets Kate Consavage, a nutrition communications and knowledge management adviser in USAID’s Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition, discusses the global burden of malnutrition and describes USAID’s work “with the government of Uganda to build national and local government-level…
World Bank, U.S. Commit Additional Funds To DRC Ebola Response, Bringing Total Pledged To More Than $25M May 23, 2018 News Summary CIDRAP News: New funding pledges boost DRC Ebola response “A major infusion of financial support for Ebola response — to the tune of more than $25 million — has come from the World Bank, the United States, and Germany to support the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…”…
DRC Ebola Outbreak Response Sits On ‘Epidemiological Knife-Edge’ With Spread Into Urban Area, WHO Official Says; Experts Launch Vaccinations, Weigh Experimental Treatment Use May 23, 2018 News Summary Associated Press: Ebola response on ‘knife’s edge’ as timing key, WHO says “The World Health Organization is accelerating its efforts with nine countries neighboring Congo to try to prevent the current Ebola outbreak from spreading beyond the border, WHO’s director for Africa said Wednesday, as a colleague warned that the…