TB Eradication Possible With Proper Health Care Systems, Diagnostic Tests, Vaccines, Funding September 1, 2015 News Summary Project Syndicate: Taking the Offensive Against Tuberculosis Gunilla Källenius, professor of clinical microbiology at Karolinska Institutet “…[T]he world now has a narrow window of opportunity to eradicate TB. Taking advantage of it will require the rapid development and dissemination of effective diagnostic tools, novel drug treatments, and innovative vaccines, in…
U.N. Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union President Call On Legislators To Support SDGs September 1, 2015 News Summary Public Finance International: U.N. chief tells parliaments across the world to back SDGs “United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged legislators around the world to help drive forward the new sustainable development agenda. Addressing a conference of parliamentary speakers at U.N. headquarters in New York, Ban said member states had…
VICE News Examines How Climate Change Disproportionately Impacts Women September 1, 2015 News Summary VICE News: How Climate Change Impacts Women the Most “…Particularly in developing countries, social structures that disadvantage women often put them at higher risks of harm and even death from climate change. For example, because women are frequently responsible for caring for children and the elderly, they’re often the last…
Safe Humanitarian Corridor Needed In Yemen To Respond To Dengue Outbreak, WHO Says September 1, 2015 News Summary U.N. News Centre: Yemen: ‘worrying outbreak’ of dengue fever prompts U.N. health agency appeal for safe humanitarian corridor “The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is appealing for a safe corridor to reach more than three million people in war-torn Yemen’s most populated governorate, Taiz, where ‘an extreme spike’ in…
More Than 850K People Need Emergency Food Aid In Somalia, As Flooding Threatens Region, U.N. Warns September 1, 2015 News Summary News outlets discuss findings from a U.N. report highlighting food insecurity in Somalia. Agence France-Presse: Somalia food aid crisis ‘critical’: U.N. “War-torn Somalia remains in a ‘critical’ state four years after a devastating famine, the U.N. warned on Monday, noting a sharp rise in those needing food aid…” (8/30). International…
Experts Investigate Ebola Death In Sierra Leone, Prepare For Vaccination Trial Among Case Contacts September 1, 2015 News Summary Associated Press: Experts to investigate new Ebola case in north Sierra Leone “Ebola experts are in Sierra Leone’s Kambia district investigating a case that emerged less than a week after the country’s last known patient was discharged from a hospital, a World Health Organization spokeswoman said Monday. Once the source…
Unions, Civil Society Groups Question How Liberian Government Spent Money Allocated For Ebola Outbreak September 1, 2015 News Summary VOA News: Money Questions Swirl as Liberia’s Ebola Outbreak Nears End “As Liberia prepares to be declared once again free of the Ebola virus later this week, unions and civil society groups are beginning to question how the government spent money allocated to fight the outbreak. … International donors pledged…
Developing, Scaling Up Health Innovations Requires Process That Goes Beyond Research September 1, 2015 News Summary SciDev.Net: Health innovations need much more than research Nick Ishmael Perkins, director of SciDev.Net “The challenges of developing and scaling up health innovations go beyond research. They need careful consideration. Previously known as the Global Forum for Health Research, the Global Forum for Research and Innovation for Health, held last…
USAID’s Global Development Lab Announces $10M For 45 New Global Research Projects August 31, 2015 News Summary USAID: USAID Announces $10 Million in New Global Research Collaboration “The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) U.S. Global Development Lab [on Friday] announced $10 million for 45 new research projects that will address evidence gaps and advance technical capacity in critical areas of development. Spanning 23 USAID partner countries,…