Aid Agencies Ramp Up Cholera Outbreak Response In Zimbabwe; President Calls For Improved Water, Sanitation Systems September 14, 2018 News Summary Agence France-Presse: Zimbabwe cholera deaths rise to 25 as WHO steps up response “The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to 25, the government said Thursday as the World Health Organization warned that the water-borne disease is spreading rapidly in the capital Harare. ‘There are now…
Critics Say Morocco’s New Anti-Sexual Harassment Laws Do Not Provide Enough Protections For Women September 14, 2018 News Summary Washington Post: Why activists aren’t happy with Morocco’s new anti-sexual-harassment laws “…[T]he Moroccan government is hailing an anti-violence-against-women law that took effect this week after five years of efforts to get it passed. The law offers a variety of protections for women who report harassment or violence in Morocco, bans…
The Lancet Reports On U.S. Cuts To Palestinian Aid September 14, 2018 News Summary The Lancet: Funds cut for aid in the occupied Palestinian territory “The U.S. State Department said on Aug. 31 that it would cut US$300 million in funding this year intended for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). … The cut to UNRWA…
KFF Updates Fact Sheet On U.S. Role In Global NCD Efforts September 14, 2018 News Summary Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Government and Global Non-Communicable Disease Efforts This updated fact sheet discusses U.S. government efforts on and funding for global non-communicable diseases (NCDs), global statistics related to NCDs, and international goals for NCDs (9/14).
Ending Global TB Requires Improved Access To Medicine, Lower Drug Prices, Innovation September 13, 2018 News Summary STAT: Ending tuberculosis will take lower drug prices and a new, improved innovation ecosystem John Stephens, lawyer and associate at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center; Prabha Mahesh, tuberculosis survivor and member of Touched by TB; and Brian Citro, clinical professor…
Police Ban Public Assembly In Harare, Zimbabwe In Effort To Contain Cholera Outbreak September 13, 2018 News Summary Al Jazeera: Public assembly banned in Zimbabwe capital amid cholera outbreak “Authorities in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, banned public gatherings as part of efforts to contain a cholera outbreak that has killed 21 people over the past week…” (9/12). VOA News: U.N.: Zimbabwe Cholera Outbreak Now a ‘Very Dire Situation’ “The…
USAID To Again Begin Accepting Applications For Development Innovation Ventures Program September 13, 2018 News Summary Devex: USAID relaunches Development Innovation Ventures program “The United States Agency for International Development’s Development Innovation Ventures, a program that provides grants to test and scale innovations, will once again accept applications after being suspended for more than a year. Program applications were suspended in late July 2017 due to…
Governments Must Act Urgently Against Climate Change September 13, 2018 News Summary Washington Post: This is absolutely unacceptable Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change “…A recent World Health Organization report said that nine out of 10 people on the planet breathe dangerous air, and an estimated seven million premature deaths a year are caused by…
New Class Of Antibiotic Needed To Defeat Superbugs September 13, 2018 News Summary Scientific American: Getting the Upper Hand on Superbugs Man Wah Tan, senior director and principal scientist of Genentech’s Infectious Disease division “…Our research group at Genentech is particularly interested in the so-called ESKAPE pathogens … These bacteria, the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections, are rapidly developing resistance to more than…
