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WHO can survive with reform, flexibility

"As the nations of the world attend the World Health Assembly in Geneva this week, the World Health Organization is in a budget crisis and continuing to struggle for relevancy among better-funded, more agile philanthropic foundations and disease-specific initiatives," Thomas Bollyky, senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), writes in this CFR expert brief.

25 May 2012

Experts, advocates urge continued funding for research into HIV, TB vaccines

"[P]articipants at a symposium held last week by the U.K. Consortium on AIDS and International Development warned that progress on HIV and tuberculosis (TB) vaccines could be jeopardized by the recent downturn in global health funding," BMJ reports.

24 May 2012

Kaiser Family Foundation survey highlights importance of communicating aid successes

In this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, communications officer and blog editor Amie Newman reports on a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, released Monday, that examines Americans' views on U.S. global health issues.

24 May 2012

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approves FY13 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs on Tuesday approved a $52.1 billion FY 2013 spending bill for state and foreign operations, The Hill's "Global Affairs" blog reports.

24 May 2012

Omron introduces new wireless sleep monitoring device

ResMed Inc. today announced the launch of the first product in Japan using technology from its recently acquired company, BiancaMed. The product, launched by BiancaMed partner Omron Healthcare, is a new wireless sleep monitoring device.

From ResMed Corp 24 May 2012

'Atlanta Declaration' addresses how U.S. can advance world's health

The World Affairs Council of Atlanta, CARE USA, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) last week held a conference "on how the United States, even in the midst of fiscal austerity and political division, can best advance the world's health," CSIS' "Smart Global Health" blog reports.

22 May 2012

Government-supported 'Prize Funds' would help important drugs have greater social impact

"Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries," World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, writes in this BusinessDay opinion piece.

22 May 2012

Kaiser Family Foundation releases new poll examining Americans' views of U.S. support of global health

"Two-thirds of Americans say that the U.S. is spending too little or about the right amount on global health with one in five saying spending is too high, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation [KFF] survey on the public's views of global health issues" released Monday, a KFF news release reports.

22 May 2012

Further examination of key findings of Policy Innovation Memorandum on safety of world drug, vaccine supply

In this post on her blog, "The Garrett Update" -- the last of a series of posts examining the safety of drugs and vaccines -- Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), further details the key findings of the CFR's Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 21, a six-point policy recommendation for the G8/20 that she authored, titled "Ensuring the Safety and Integrity of the World's Drug, Vaccine, and Medicines Supply."

19 May 2012

PLoS blog responds to U.N.'s newly released maternal mortality estimates

Newly released "estimates of maternal mortality from the United Nations' Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) are good news – but not good enough," Peter Byass, professor of global health at Umea University in Sweden and director of the Umea Centre for Global Health Research, writes in this post in the PLoS "Speaking of Medicine" blog.

18 May 2012

Huffington Post series of opinion pieces examines NGO priorities for G8

The Huffington Post is running "a series of blogs by leading NGOs to call attention to a range of issues that should be raised at the G8 summit at Camp David in rural Maryland from May 18-19," according to the news service. The following summarizes some of the posts published this week.

18 May 2012

WHO faces challenges in setting priorities

In this BMJ Groups Blog post, Amanda Glassman, director of Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development, writes about the challenges the WHO faces in "setting priorities and fully funding those priorities."

18 May 2012

Examining key findings of Policy Innovation Memorandum on safety of world drug, vaccine supply

In her blog, "The Garrett Update," Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), provides a detailed overview of the key findings from the council's Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 21, a six-point policy recommendation for the G8/20 that she authored, titled "Ensuring the Safety and Integrity of the World's Drug, Vaccine, and Medicines Supply."

18 May 2012

House Appropriations Committee releases draft report on FY13 State, Foreign Operations spending bill

The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up the FY 2013 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill on Thursday, The Hill's "Global Affairs" blog reports.

18 May 2012

Proposed FY13 State, Foreign Operations appropriations bill has 'mixed results' for USAID's global health programs

"On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee will vote on a State and Foreign Operations (SFOPS) appropriations bill for fiscal year (FY) 2013, which will include funding levels for global health and other programs at the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)," Ashley Bennett, senior policy associate at the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC) writes in the coalition's "Breakthroughs" blog.

18 May 2012

MSF report criticizes Global Vaccine Action Plan

In a report released on Tuesday, "the international humanitarian relief organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has said a new $10 billion global vaccination plan "fails to address the 20 percent of babies -- some 19 million infants -- who never receive basic, life-saving shots," and that, "rather than pushing for novel vaccines, the plan should focus more concretely on strategies to get existing vaccines to children," Nature's "News Blog" reports.

17 May 2012

MDG Health Alliance introduced at GBCHealth Conference

The MDG Health Alliance, an innovative new private sector organization created and led by eminent business leaders to tackle urgent global health problems, was introduced today in the United States at the GBCHealth Conference.

17 May 2012

U.S. support for Global Fund may be 'America's greatest global health legacy'

"This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the world's most powerful tool in the fight against the three pandemics," Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images, Inc., writes in this post in the Huffington Post Blog.

17 May 2012

Immediate response required to curb spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Burma

In this Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Jay Winsten, associate dean at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Trish Stroman, a principal at the Boston Consulting Group, examine "the emergence in Southeast Asia of malarial parasites resistant to artemisinin -- the current gold-standard drug for treating the disease," writing it "poses grave new challenges."

17 May 2012

Colleagues In Care, IBM partner to help improve healthcare delivery in Haiti

IBM today announced it is helping improve healthcare delivery in Haiti through its collaboration with 'Colleagues In Care' Global Health Network.

17 May 2012

Global Health News and Research

WHO can survive with reform, flexibility

Experts, advocates urge continued funding for research into HIV, TB vaccines

Kaiser Family Foundation survey highlights importance of communicating aid successes

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approves FY13 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill

Omron introduces new wireless sleep monitoring device

'Atlanta Declaration' addresses how U.S. can advance world's health

Government-supported 'Prize Funds' would help important drugs have greater social impact

Kaiser Family Foundation releases new poll examining Americans' views of U.S. support of global health

Further examination of key findings of Policy Innovation Memorandum on safety of world drug, vaccine supply

PLoS blog responds to U.N.'s newly released maternal mortality estimates

Huffington Post series of opinion pieces examines NGO priorities for G8

WHO faces challenges in setting priorities

Examining key findings of Policy Innovation Memorandum on safety of world drug, vaccine supply

House Appropriations Committee releases draft report on FY13 State, Foreign Operations spending bill

Proposed FY13 State, Foreign Operations appropriations bill has 'mixed results' for USAID's global health programs

MSF report criticizes Global Vaccine Action Plan

MDG Health Alliance introduced at GBCHealth Conference

U.S. support for Global Fund may be 'America's greatest global health legacy'

Immediate response required to curb spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Burma

Colleagues In Care, IBM partner to help improve healthcare delivery in Haiti

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