Transparency Critical To Understanding Success Of Aid To Haiti January 8, 2014 News Summary Writing in the Center for Global Development’s (CGD) “Global Development: Views from the Center” blog, CGD Senior Fellow Vijaya Ramachandran and CGD Research Assistant Sneha Raghavan examine transparency in the disbursement of aid to Haiti over the four years since a devastating earthquake. “It is an outrage that four years…
Group In Cameroon Advocates Against Breast Ironing January 8, 2014 News Summary The Guardian: Empowering girls to speak out against breast ironing Gabriella Jozwiak, a freelance journalist and the Africa programs support volunteer at Y Care International Jozwiak writes about “Came women and girls development organization (Came W&G), which encourages girls to advocate against the practice of breast ironing in Cameroon. ……
Violence In South Sudan Affecting NTD Efforts January 8, 2014 News Summary Epoch Times: South Sudan Crisis Threatens to Derail Tropical Disease Efforts James Smith and Pete Kingsley of the University of Edinburgh “…South Sudan — after half a century of intermittent conflict and underdevelopment — is unique in suffering from virtually all of the World Health Organization’s list of [neglected tropical…
Shift Donor Funding, Encourage Trade To Improve African Food Security January 8, 2014 News Summary SciDev.Net: African agriculture needs trade not aid David Bennett, a senior member of St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, U.K. and co-leader of the Biosciences for Farming in Africa program “…[F]or any solution to food security to be truly sustainable, people have to move from depending on aid to depending on trade.…
Efforts Against HIV/AIDS Must Address ‘Stigma, Discrimination And Quality Of Care’ January 8, 2014 News Summary New York Times: The Missing Piece in the War on AIDS Ellie Feinglass, a health and human rights consultant in sub-Saharan Africa “Our strategy [against HIV/AIDS], if it is to be successful, must recognize that achieving universal access to care and treatment necessarily means addressing human rights barriers to health…
U.K. MPs Criticize Timing Of DfID’s Decision To End Aid To India, South Africa January 8, 2014 News Summary The Guardian: U.K. MPs censure DfID over decision to end aid to India and South Africa “The U.K.’s decision to end bilateral aid to India and South Africa by 2015 was ‘neither methodical nor transparent, but related to short-term political pressures,’ a group of MPs has said. … The committee…
Wellcome Trust Director Warns Against Antibiotic Resistance January 8, 2014 News Summary The Guardian: Disease resistance to antibiotics at tipping point, expert warns “The director of the Wellcome Trust has warned that resistance of disease to antibiotics has reached a tipping point at which it could creep into the U.K. almost without notice. Professor Jeremy Farrar said the effects would be gradual…
Taiwan’s CDC Reports New H7N9 Case January 8, 2014 News Summary News outlets report on the most recent case of avian influenza A(H7N9) virus reported in Taiwan in an elderly Chinese man. RTT News: WHO: One Confirmed Case Of Human H7N9 Infection Reported In Taiwan “The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that Taipei Centers for Disease Control (CDC)…
U.S. Senate Holds Hearing On Syrian Refugees; U.N. Appeals For Aid For Syrian Children January 8, 2014 News Summary News outlets recap a U.S. Senate hearing held on Tuesday to examine the refugee crisis in Syria, as well as report on a U.N. appeal for aid to Syrian children and the delivery of medical supplies in the country. VOA News: U.S. Aid for Syrian Refugees Examined, Criticized by Lawmakers…
