Poor-Quality Health Care Contributes To 5M Deaths Annually In LMICs, Study Shows September 6, 2018 News Summary NPR: What Kills 5 Million People A Year? It’s Not Just Disease “…A new report published in The Lancet on Wednesday finds that when it comes to health, quality — not quantity — seems to be more important. The study estimates that five million people die every year because of…
CDC India Director Discusses Country’s Coordinated Response To Nipah Outbreak September 6, 2018 News Summary CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: Rapid Detection Accelerates India’s Response to Nipah Outbreak Kayla Laserson, director of CDC India, discusses India’s response to a recent Nipah outbreak and notes, “India’s commitment to [the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)] and enhanced detection and response represent a significant gain in the world’s ability…
Global Health NOW Publishes 2-Part Series Based On Interview With WHO DG Tedros September 6, 2018 News Summary Global Health NOW: Inside the Mind of Tedros: A Q&A with WHO’s Director General “…In this first of a 2-part series, [David Peters, chair of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,] probes [WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus] in an email interview on the biggest challenges:…
Ebola Case Detected In Northeastern DRC City; Experts Say Progress Made But Warn Outbreak Could Spread Further September 6, 2018 News Summary Associated Press: Eastern Congo has new Ebola case in city of 1.4 million “Congo health officials say that a case of Ebola has been discovered in Butembo, a city … in the country’s northeast…” (Maliro, 9/5). HuffPost: World Health Organization: After Ebola Death In City, ‘No One Should Be Sleeping…
U.N.-Backed Conference Raises More Than $2.1B For Humanitarian Response In Crisis-Hit Lake Chad Basin September 5, 2018 News Summary The Guardian: Millions of people need urgent help to stave off famine in Lake Chad Basin “Nine years into a crisis that shows no sign of abating, 11 million people in the Lake Chad Basin are in need of urgent help, a high-level conference has heard. More than two million…
Investing In ‘Climate-Smart’ Agriculture Can Contribute To Achieving Long-Term Stability In Africa September 5, 2018 News Summary Financial Times: Aid spending can help stabilize ‘fragile’ African countries Elwyn Grainger-Jones, executive director of CGIAR System Organization “…The relationship between development assistance and migration levels is complex. … Directing development aid to reduce pressure on fragile states impacted by unemployment, hunger, and climate change can help build greater stability…
African Health Ministers Take Actions On Access To Medicines, Cholera At WHO Regional Committee Meeting September 5, 2018 News Summary Health Policy Watch: Senegal President Urges African Leaders To Invest In Health “…The sixty-eighth session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa [took] place in Dakar, Senegal, from 27-31 August. In an address to the event, Senegal President Macky Sall urged African countries to invest more resources into…
Private-Sector Innovation Key To Ending TB September 5, 2018 News Summary STAT: Ending tuberculosis will take continued private-sector innovation Adrian Thomas, private sector constituency board member for the Stop TB Partnership and vice president for global public health and access at Johnson & Johnson “…[K]ey debates are happening right now regarding the political declaration that U.N. member states will adopt at…
International Community Must Prioritize Efforts To Address Pneumonia September 5, 2018 News Summary The Lancet: Pneumonia: a global cause without champions Kevin Watkins, CEO of Save the Children U.K., and Devi Sridhar, co-investigator on the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health at the University of Edinburgh “…Why has childhood pneumonia achieved such limited traction on the health agendas of governments and…