Blog Examines Prospects For FY15 U.S. Foreign Aid Budget April 11, 2014 News Summary Writing in Humanosphere, development blogger Tom Murphy discusses the prospects for the FY 2015 U.S. foreign aid budget. “…Everyone is not happy with the White House plan, though nobody is ever completely happy with the U.S. foreign aid budget. Despite that, foreign aid supporters are more concerned with fending off…
White House Expert Says Global Health Is National Security Issue April 11, 2014 News Summary Elizabeth Cameron, White House national security expert, served as the keynote speaker for the April 9 “New Avian Influenzas in East Asia: Global Health Security and Policy” symposium at Georgetown University, according to a press release. She said, “The challenge we face as a global community is how to leverage…
Blog Features Video Of CSIS Panel On Global Food Security April 11, 2014 News Summary “Global Food For Thought,” the blog of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Agricultural Development Initiative, features a video of a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) panel on global food security. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) gave the keynote address, which was followed by a discussion with…
Working Together, Global Community Can Defeat Vector-Borne Diseases April 11, 2014 News Summary Katherine Bliss, senior associate at the Global Health Policy Center of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), writes in the center’s “Smart Global Health” blog about this year’s World Health Day, the theme of which was “preventing vector-borne diseases.” She writes, “With more than one billion people globally…
New Issue Of ‘Global Fund News Flash’ Available Online April 10, 2014 News Summary The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has published Issue 41 of its newsletter, the “Global Fund News Flash.” The issue features an article reporting from a regional meeting in Dakar focused on how gender, maternal and child health, and human rights should be integrated into the new…
MSF Criticizes U.N. For ‘Shocking Indifference’ Toward Displaced In S. Sudan April 10, 2014 News Summary News outlets report on Médecins Sans Frontières’s criticism of the U.N. over the living conditions in displacement camps in South Sudan. Agence France-Presse/Al Jazeera: U.N. accused of ‘shameful attitude’ in S. Sudan “A leading international aid agency has issued a stinging attack on the United Nations mission in South Sudan,…
WHO Releases Hepatitis C Treatment Guidelines Amid Calls For Lower Cost Treatment April 10, 2014 News Summary Media sources report on the WHO’s first-ever hepatitis C treatment guidelines and increased efforts to lower the cost of the most effective treatments. Financial Times: Price of hepatitis C drug attacked “Gilead Sciences is facing mounting pressure over its new $1,000-a-day hepatitis C drug after the World Health Organization joined…
World’s Preparation For Flu Pandemic Improved But Challenges Remain, Expert Says April 10, 2014 News Summary CIDRAP News: Fineberg: 5 years after H1N1, world still not ready for pandemic “Five years after the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus emerged, the world’s ability to cope with a flu pandemic is a bit better than it was in April 2009, but there’s still a long way to go, says…
E.U. Supports Private Sector Involvement In Africa April 10, 2014 News Summary Devex: Private sector must be our partner in Africa — Piebalgs “The European Union acknowledges that the overall goal of providing electricity to over two million people in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be met by the bloc on its own, without help from the private sector. ‘The private sector… needs to…