Health Jan 28 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Global Fund Backlash, Foreign Aid Poll Executive Director of the Global Fund Michel Kazatchkine marches with AIDS advocates at the 2010 International AIDS Conference. Global Fund Facing Corruption Backlash In the wake of press reports of flagrant corruption within some projects backed by the…
World Jan 24 Global Fund Defends Corruption Policies The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Monday it has "zero tolerance" for corruption, and downplayed a media report claiming flagrant misuse of funds within some projects backed by the organization. The Associated Press reported…
Health Jan 21 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Push for USAID Cuts, Rotavirus Successes Republicans Call for USAID Cuts A group of 165 Republican members of the House of Representatives are calling for drastic spending cuts in foreign aid, including $1.39 billion a year from USAID, which funds health and development programs around…
Health Jan 18 Violence Against Women Among Challenges in Haiti Human rights groups are calling for more security measures in the tent camps of Port-au-Prince to reduce the number of rapes and incidents of sexual violence.
Health Jan 18 H1N1 Gives Clues to Universal Flu Vaccine Researchers found that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza produced antibodies that provide protection from several flu strains.
Health Jan 14 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Malaria Vaccine, Haiti One Year Later Malaria patient in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller. Promising New Malaria Vaccine An effective malaria vaccine may be on the horizon: a Phase II trial published in the Lancet this week showed an experimental vaccine cut the risk of…
Health Jan 12 In Photos: A Year of Tragedy and Survival in Haiti Wednesday marks one year since a magnitude-7 earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, killing more than 230,000 people and injuring many more. Rick Loomis, a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, arrived in Haiti one…
Politics Jan 10 Haiti Reconstruction Aid Falls Short, New Figures Show New figures on reconstruction aid to Haiti reveal that while billions have been pledged, international donors were slow to deliver funds in 2010. Some key figures: International donors pledged $2.01 billion for Haiti reconstruction and recovery efforts in 2010, but…
Health Jan 06 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Rape in Haiti Tent Camps, India Rejects HIV Patent Corail tent camp outside Port-au-Prince. NewsHour photo. Rape in Haiti Camps The risk of rape and other sex crimes for women living in Haiti's tent camps has increased over the past year, according to an Amnesty International report released…
Health Dec 27 Shortage of Cholera Vaccine an Obstacle in Haiti Response Health experts are calling for the creation of a cholera vaccine stockpile so the vaccine can be deployed in future cholera outbreaks, like the one still spreading in Haiti.