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Eli Lilly provides $4M in additional funding to IDRI for new TB therapies

Eli Lilly and Company today announced that it is providing more than $4 million in additional funding to the Infectious Disease Research Institute. The funding will allow IDRI to continue its early phase drug discovery efforts focused on identifying new and better therapies in the fight against tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant strains known as MDR-TB.

17 Nov 2011

How much does trauma cost?

A study that has changed the way specialist trauma hospitals function such as St George, Royal Prince Alfred and the Royal North Shore has won Sydney Nursing School’s Clinical Associate Professor Kate Curtis a prestigious Trans-Tasman award

17 Nov 2011

New collaboration enables information sharing to aid in development of TB drug candidates

In this post in the Global Health Technologies Coalition's "Breakthroughs" blog, Heather Ignatius, senior policy manager for the TB Alliance, writes that while "the most recent WHO TB Control report noted that rates of tuberculosis (TB) declined this past year for the first time in decades, ... TB remains one of the most devastating global health crises today, with ripple effects that extend beyond health to cripple prosperity and development of regions overwhelmed by the disease."

17 Nov 2011

Streamlining clinical trials review process to speed up delivery of drugs to those in need

In this Atlantic opinion piece, Amanda Glassman, director of Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development (CGD), reports on how lengthy, inefficient review processes for drug and vaccine candidates waiting in the pipeline for late stages of clinical development is keeping promising new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostic techniques from reaching millions in need.

16 Nov 2011

Niacin not effective in reducing risk of stroke, heart attack in stable CV patients

In patients whose bad cholesterol is very well-controlled by statins for a long time period, the addition of high-dose, extended release niacin did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attack and stroke.

16 Nov 2011

Clinton's speech prioritizing creation of 'Aids-free generation' may shape future of U.S. global health strategy, analysts say

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's November 8 speech at the NIH, in which she called for the creation of an "AIDS-free generation" through the use of combination prevention strategies, "could be more than just political lip-service: it may also shape the next several years of U.S. global health programming and funding, analysts say," PlusNews reports.

15 Nov 2011

World citizen number 7 billion more likely to contract diabetes or other NCDs

World citizen number 7 billion is less likely to die from infectious diseases like measles or even AIDS, and more likely to contract diabetes or other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as they are now the leading causes of deaths globally.

15 Nov 2011

Study identifies five areas of global health on which Canada can focus

A "year-long assessment done by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences concluded there is a strong rationale for Canada to play a more strategic role in global health, while recognizing the scale of humanitarian needs," and to "focus on five areas where its research is strongest, including indigenous health," the Globe and Mail reports.

15 Nov 2011

Researchers in Philippines develop machine to quickly detect drug-resistant TB

In this post in the Global Post's "Global Pulse" blog, journalist John Donnelly reports on how a machine developed by researchers at the TB Laboratory at the Lung Center of the Philippines "that can detect multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in record time may revolutionize TB treatment."

15 Nov 2011

Experts discuss treatment as prevention at USAID-, World Bank-sponsored debate

In this post in the Center for Global Development's "Global Health Policy" blog, Amanda Glassman, director of Global Health Policy and a research fellow at the center, reports on last week's USAID- and World Bank-sponsored debate on treatment as prevention, "where debaters were asked to support or oppose the proposition that countries should spend the majority of flat or declining HIV prevention budgets on 'treatment as prevention,' building off the results of the HPTN 052 study which found a relative reduction of 89 percent in the total number of HIV-1 transmissions resulting from the early initiation of antiretroviral therapy.

15 Nov 2011

Third annual World Pneumonia Day to be observed on Saturday

The third annual World Pneumonia Day will be observed on Saturday.

11 Nov 2011

Advocacy groups run full-page ad on end of AIDS

Several advocacy groups, including amfAR, AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention, the Center for Global Health Policy, and the Treatment Action Group (TAG), took out a full-page advertisement in Politico on Thursday, stating, "We can begin to end the AIDS pandemic. Will we?"

11 Nov 2011

PSI official discusses organization's innovations strategies in Washington Post feature

As part of its series on innovation, the Washington Post features an interview with PSI Vice President for Corporate Marketing and Communications Kate Roberts, who answers several questions regarding PSI's work in global health.

11 Nov 2011

Global Health Service Corps essential to improve African health systems, achieve 'AIDS-free generation'

"A notable feature of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's 'AIDS-free generation' initiative is to strengthen health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, ... a view echoed by many eminent voices in the global health community," Anand Reddi of the University of Colorado Medical School writes in a post on Huffington Post's "Impact" blog.

11 Nov 2011

Too much at stake to scale back U.S. global engagement

Frank Carlucci, former national security adviser and secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan; Lee Hamilton, a retired Democratic congressman and former vice chair of the 9/11 Commission; and Tom Ridge, former homeland security secretary under President George W. Bush -- all members of the Advisory Council for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition -- write in this Washington Times editorial, "At a time of economic distress and huge deficits that demand tough choices, it is tempting for elected officials to scale back this country's engagement around the globe, in particular by making cuts to programs that support diplomacy and international development. Yet too much is at stake to diminish America's leadership and competitiveness in a world that is growing more interconnected and interdependent -- as well as more turbulent -- virtually every day."

10 Nov 2011

Clinton expresses U.S. commitment to creating 'AIDS-free generation,' calls on world to help

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at the NIH on Tuesday, "called on the world to create the first 'AIDS-free generation' by using antiviral drugs, condoms, circumcision and other approaches to stem the spread of HIV," the Washington Post reports.

10 Nov 2011

CU Denver researchers awarded Grand Challenges Explorations grant

The University of Colorado Denver announced today that it will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.

9 Nov 2011

Cutting U.S. global health funding would slow progress, hurt development in other countries

A Minnesota Daily editorial states that a proposed nine percent cut in U.S. global health program funding "would drastically slow ... progress and hurt development and advancement in other countries," adding that "investing in the development of poor countries is good for everyone involved. When there are more highly educated, healthy countries, there is more prosperity for all."

9 Nov 2011

GHTC interviews prominent Americans, leading U.S. health officials on why Americans should care about global health

In anticipation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech on the HIV/AIDS pandemic at the NIH on Tuesday, GlobalPost's "Global Pulse" blog provides video footage of interviews conducted by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC) in which Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.); FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg; Amie Batson, deputy assistant administrator for global health at USAID; and actress Whoopi Goldberg respond to the question of why Americans should care about the global health.

9 Nov 2011

Clinton expected to urge U.S., other countries to intensify HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in speech on Tuesday

In a speech to be delivered at the NIH, "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to call Tuesday for a new push by the U.S. and other countries to harness recent science to stem the HIV/AIDS pandemic," the Wall Street Journal reports.

9 Nov 2011

Global Health News and Research

Eli Lilly provides $4M in additional funding to IDRI for new TB therapies

How much does trauma cost?

New collaboration enables information sharing to aid in development of TB drug candidates

Streamlining clinical trials review process to speed up delivery of drugs to those in need

Niacin not effective in reducing risk of stroke, heart attack in stable CV patients

Clinton's speech prioritizing creation of 'Aids-free generation' may shape future of U.S. global health strategy, analysts say

World citizen number 7 billion more likely to contract diabetes or other NCDs

Study identifies five areas of global health on which Canada can focus

Researchers in Philippines develop machine to quickly detect drug-resistant TB

Experts discuss treatment as prevention at USAID-, World Bank-sponsored debate

Third annual World Pneumonia Day to be observed on Saturday

Advocacy groups run full-page ad on end of AIDS

PSI official discusses organization's innovations strategies in Washington Post feature

Global Health Service Corps essential to improve African health systems, achieve 'AIDS-free generation'

Too much at stake to scale back U.S. global engagement

Clinton expresses U.S. commitment to creating 'AIDS-free generation,' calls on world to help

CU Denver researchers awarded Grand Challenges Explorations grant

Cutting U.S. global health funding would slow progress, hurt development in other countries

GHTC interviews prominent Americans, leading U.S. health officials on why Americans should care about global health

Clinton expected to urge U.S., other countries to intensify HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in speech on Tuesday

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