Drug-Resistant TB Cases Becoming More Prevalent In India, IPS Reports March 5, 2014 News Summary Inter Press Service: India Fights a Tougher TB “…For many [tuberculosis (TB) patients], lack of proper diagnosis and interrupted dosages are increasing their resistance to available drugs. Drug resistance is human-made — an iatrogenic disease resulting from mismanagement of TB, experts say. Drug-resistant TB can occur as a primary infection…
Obama’s Global Development Policy Directive Publicly Released March 5, 2014 News Summary Devex: Obama’s global development directive now out in the open “More than three years after first being issued by the White House, the Obama administration’s principal directive on global development policy has been released into the public domain. The Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development or PPD-6 was posted Monday…
News Sources Report On Research Findings, Talks Presented At CROI March 5, 2014 News Summary News sources report on several research findings and talks given at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, taking place this week in Boston. Associated Press: Studies show big promise for HIV prevention drug “Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative…
Polio Vaccination Efforts Prove Challenging Along Afghanistan-Pakistan Border March 5, 2014 News Summary Agence France-Presse: Polio’s last stand on the Afghan-Pakistan border “About 1.3 million oral vaccinations are administered every year to children at the Torkham Gate crossing, the focal point of an intense global campaign to eradicate polio by 2018. But Afghanistan and Pakistan — two of the three remaining ‘endemic’ polio…
WASH Efforts See Urban-Rural Gaps In Laos March 5, 2014 News Summary IRIN: Laos’s urban-rural WASH divide “Laos has been growing at eight percent a year over the past decade but rural areas, where most people still live, are being left behind in terms of access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, health experts warn. Nearly half of the Lao…
U.N. Increasingly Concerned About Humanitarian Situation For Children In CAR, South Sudan March 5, 2014 News Summary Media outlets discuss U.N. humanitarian efforts to help children in the Central African Republic and South Sudan crises. Reuters: U.N. says C. Africa, S. Sudan refugees ‘in poor shape,’ children hardest hit “People fleeing conflicts in Central African Republic and South Sudan are growing increasingly sick and hungry with children…
March 2014 Issue Of WHO Bulletin Available Online March 5, 2014 News Summary The March 2014 issue of the WHO Bulletin features an editorial on the difficulty of making healthy choices, an article about operationalizing WHO’s definition of unsafe abortion, and an article on how insecticide resistance in Malawi threatens to reverse gains in the country’s control of malaria, among other articles (March 2014).
Dengue Deaths Surge In Malaysia; Citizens Urged To Drain Stagnant Water March 5, 2014 News Summary Wall Street Journal: Dengue Deaths Soar in Malaysia “Reeling from a severe dengue outbreak, Malaysia has launched a community-driven neighborhood cleaning program to destroy breeding sites of Aedes mosquitoes that are responsible for spreading the virus. The initiative, launched on Sunday across 110 dengue hot spots, involves citizens and local…
CDC Blog Discusses Link Between HIV, Maternal Health In Africa March 4, 2014 News Summary Writing in the CDC’s “Our Global Voices” blog, Isabella Danel of the CDC Division of Reproductive Health discusses progress in improving maternal health in Africa and the impact that HIV has on maternal mortality. “…The HIV epidemic is an important reason maternal mortality has not decreased much — or has even…