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Global Health News
November
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Associated Press: UN food summit to back new strategy against hunger
A draft declaration for next week’s U.N. food summit would commit world leaders to a new hunger-fighting strategy by pledging to increase agricultural development aid to help the world’s 1 billion hungry people feed themselves. Read More
United Nations: Poor Nutrition Stunts Growth of 200 Million Children
Nearly 200 million children in developing countries suffer from stunted growth and health problems due to poor nutrition in their early years, the U.N. children's foundation UNICEF said on Wednesday. Read More
Rajiv Shah nominated to be the next administrator of USAID
Souce: The Global Health Council
November 11, 2009
-- The White House today announced that President Barack Obama has nominated Dr. Rajiv Shah - currently under secretary for research, education and economics and chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - to be the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Obama said that Shah "brings fresh ideas and the dedication and impressive background necessary to help guide USAID." Alonzo Fulgham has served as acting administrator of USAID since President Obama was sworn into office in January. Read More
Senate passes resolution calling for the "empowering and strengthening" of USAID
The proposed resolution would express the sense of the Senate that a USAID Administrator should be "nominated with all expediency and exigency," that USAID "must be empowered to be the primary development agency of the United States," and that the Administrator should increase the number of Foreign Service Offices at USAID and submit a 5-year staffing plan to Congress. Read Remarks Here
Obama Lifts AIDS Travel Ban
Source: Global Health Council
November 1, 2009 -- President Obama announced that his administration is lifting travel restrictions into the country for those with HIV/AIDS. The Preseident stated, "If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it. And that's why, on Monday my administration will publish a final rule that eliminates the travel ban effective just after the New Year. Congress and President Bush began this process last year, and they ought to be commended for it. We are finishing the job. It's a step that will encourage people to get tested and get treatment, it's a step that will keep families together, and it's a step that will save lives."
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October
Global Health Advocates Unite for the Global Health Mini-University
The 9th Annual Global Health Mini-University, hosted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Center for Global Health at the George Washington University, proved to be anything but mini with nearly 1,000 global health professionals and students in attendance. The day-long forum held for the first time at the GW Marvin Center showcased over 60 different sessions highlighting evidence-based best practices and state-of-the-art information from a variety of technical areas across the field of Global Health. Read More...
September
CGH estabilishes Global Health Informatics Partnership with the WHO
The George Washington University Center for Global Health (CGH) is working with the Public Health Mapping and Geographic Information System (GIS) Programme within the Department of Health Information and Statistics at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. CGH will provide technical expertise in application development and training, and assist in the development of a community-oriented monitoring methods curriculum. Read More...
Influenza Pandemics – History lessons and the ongoing H1N1v threat
With the arrival of the global H1N1 pandemic this spring, Dr. Lone Simonsen, a professor of global health at George Washington University, and an internationally recognized expert in influenza and vaccine epidemiology, has gained substantial attention for her research on the epidemiology of historical pandemic influenzas. Her work shows that the 1918 “Spanish Influenza” began with a milder first wave that completely spared the elderly – similar to the current H1N1 trend. This historical perspective indicates that pandemics often go from mild to severe in their second wave, presenting a reality that is putting medical professionals on high alert this autumn. Read More....
June
May 2009
Meeting Addresses MTCT of HIV in Africa
By: Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
May 26, 2009 -- Health officials recently held a regional consultation in Kenya to examine mother-to-child HIV transmission services and pediatric HIV/AIDS care in nine Eastern and Southern African countries, IRIN/PlusNews reports. The consultation -- hosted by UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization -- included representatives from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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Governments Should Increase Efforts To Reduce Stigma, Improve Access to HIV Services Among MSM, UNAIDS Executive Director Sidibe Says
By: Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
May 20, 2009 -- Governments worldwide should take action to eliminate stigma and discrimination against men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women and transgender people and improve their access to HIV services, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said recently, the Stabroek News reports. Sidibe added that governments also should create social and legal environments that respect human rights and ensure universal access to HIV prevention and treatment.
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Obama Names New York City Health Commissioner Frieden Next CDC Director
By: Gardiner Harris and Anemona Hartocollis
Source: New York Times
May 15, 2009 -- President Obama announced on Friday that he has chosen Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the New York City health commissioner, as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Frieden, a 48-year-old infectious disease specialist, has cut a high and sometimes contentious profile in his seven years as New York’s top health official under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. He led the crusade to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, pushed to make H.I.V. testing a routine part of medical exams, and defended a program that passes out more than 35 million condoms a year.
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PIH Founder Farmer Discussing Possible Appointment To Coordinate U.S. Global Health Initiatives
By: James F. Smith
Source: The Boston Globe
May 15, 2009 -- Paul Farmer -- founder of Partners in Health and vice chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School -- said he is in discussions with the State Department about a possible Obama administration appointment to coordinate U.S. global health initiatives, the Boston Globe reports. Farmer made the announcement Monday during a meeting with HMS faculty.
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April 2009
Obama Administration Names Former Clinton Official Goodby to Global AIDS Coordinator Post
By: Neil Macfarquhar
Source: New York Times
April 28, 2009 -- President Obama on Monday named Eric Goosby as the new global AIDS coordinator and administrator of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Goosby, whose nomination has to be confirmed by the Senate, currently serves as CEO and chief medical officer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation and as a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California-San Francisco.
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Department of Global Health awarded $50,000 Grant
April 20, 2009 -- George Washington University, lead by the Department of Global Health, has been selected as one of 20 universities to receive a $50,000 grant to support plans for long term and sustainable collaborations between U.S. and African higher education institutions.
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March 2009
As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists
by: Somini Sengupta
Source: New York Times
March 12, 2009 -- Even after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse in India than in many sub-Saharan African countries, and they stand out as a paradox in a proud democracy.
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Global Health Advocates Respond to Obama's FY 2010 Budget
Source: Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report
March 3, 2009 -- Although many global health advocates have expressed optimism about the proposed 10% increase in foreign spending in President Obama's $3.55 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2010, others have expressed concern that a deceleration in global health funding could hinder U.S. efforts to combat disease overseas, CQ Today reports. Obama's proposal calls for $51.7 billion in foreign spending, including about $4.5 billion in new spending compared with 2009. The president also will request $7.1 billion in supplemental FY 2009 spending for the State Department and foreign affairs this spring, CQ Today reports. According to CQ Today, administration initiatives such as expanding the Foreign Service and providing aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan could compete with U.S. global health investment.
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February 2009
January 2009
Proposal "PEPFAR Relseases 2008 Annual Report to Congress
Jan. 12, 2009 -- The Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator in collaboration with several U.S. government agencies released its annual report to Congress on the status of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The report, titled "Celebrating Life: Fifth Annual Report to Congress on PEPFAR (2009)," summarizes the programs activity in 2008 and outlines goals for FY 2009 through FY 2012, which will be guided by the Lantos-Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 (PL 110-293). The Lantos-Hyde Act, enacted in July 2008, authorizes $48 billion over the next five years to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria worldwide.
View the full report, fact sheets, and highlights brochure .
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Center News and Events
Dr. Eliot Sorel Marks the Twenty Year Anniversary of Democracy in Central and Southeast Europe at the 2009 Youth Democracy Forum
First-year MPH Students get Reoriented to Global Health in
Washington, DC
Global Health Professor Richard Skolnik Highlights Global Health's "Unfinished Agenda" in Last Lecture
Department of Global Health Welcomes New Faculty, New Space
GW Grand Rounds hosts Ambassador Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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