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World Bank selects U.S. nominee Jim Kim as president

"The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington's grip on the job and leaving developing countries frustrated with the selection process," Reuters reports (Wroughton, 4/16).

18 Apr 2012

Gates Foundation, Brazilian health ministry form alliance to expand Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced it has formed an alliance "with the Brazilian Ministry of Health in the latest expansion of the foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative," the Puget Sound Business Journal reports.

18 Apr 2012

Imaxio closes EUR 2.9 million funding round

Imaxio, a biopharmaceutical company specialized in the areas of vaccines and genomics, announces today that it has finalized a funding round in which it raised EUR 2.9 million from its principal shareholder, Pradeyrol Developpement.

17 Apr 2012

Responses to U.S. nomination of Jim Kim for World Bank presidency

The following is a summary of several recent pieces published in response to the U.S. nomination of Jim Yong Kim to be the next president of the World Bank.

17 Apr 2012

Genetically modified mosquitoes offer hope of malaria eradication amid growing drug resistance

"In recent weeks, the emergence on the Thai-Myanmar border of malaria strains resistant to artemisinin, a plant-derived drug, have led to pessimistic headlines and reminders of the setback caused by resistance to the drug chloroquine, which began in the 1950s," columnist and author Matt Ridley writes in the Wall Street Journal's "Mind & Matter," noting, "April 25 is World Malaria Day, designed to draw attention to the planet's biggest infectious killer."

17 Apr 2012

Global Fund's restructuring shows organization's viability

This post by writer Cynthia Schweer in Foreign Policy Blogs Network describes the recent restructuring of the Secretariat at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with a focus on grant management.

16 Apr 2012

DEP exposure suppresses function of phagocytic immune cells

A team of researchers, led by Dr. Stephan Schwander, of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Public Health (UMDNJ-SPH), has determined a possible link between exposure to a common component of urban air pollution and a change in the function of important immune cells that protect against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.

16 Apr 2012

Next five years important for S. Africa to show it can effectively respond to HIV, TB

South Africa's recently released "National Strategic Plan on HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Tuberculosis (TB) 2012-2016" "marked an important milestone" in the nation's fight against infectious diseases, a Lancet editorial states.

16 Apr 2012

Support for Global Fund helps work of PEPFAR

In this post on the State Department's "DipNote" blog, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby provides an update on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, stating, "I am buoyed by the reform that is happening at the Fund under the leadership of new General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo."

12 Apr 2012

Inexpensive female genital schistosomiasis prevention could help reduce women's risk of HIV infection

In this Huffington Post "Global Motherhood" blog post, Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, describes female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), which affects more than 100 million women and girls in Africa and "causes horrific pain and bleeding in the uterus, cervix and lower genital tract, not to mention social stigma and depression."

11 Apr 2012

U.S. must embrace competitive election process for World Bank presidency to support Kim's nomination

In this New York times opinion piece, Thomas Bollyky, senior fellow for global health, economics and development at the Council on Foreign Relations, comments on the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's nomination of Jim Yong Kim for the World Bank presidency, writing, "For the first time since the World Bank's creation at the end of World War II, the United States is facing a real challenge over the bank's leadership. Leaders of some developing and emerging economies have refused to support President Obama's unexpected choice of Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College, to lead the bank."

10 Apr 2012

New WHO endorsed diagnostic tool for TB

Up to 30% of the world's population is infected with Tuberculosis (TB), but in many areas of the world, TB diagnosis still relies on insensitive, poorly standardized, and time-consuming methods. A new diagnostic tool, endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), may change that. Dr. Thomas Bodmer shows how it's done in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE).

9 Apr 2012

Nursing research news from Johns Hopkins

Two decades ago, the landmark Cruzan decision catalyzed individual thinking, policy discussions and lawmaking about advance care directives and choices.

7 Apr 2012

Analysis examines potential global health impact of Obama administration's FY13 budget request

A new analysis from amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, "estimates potential human impacts of funding changes [in global health programs] proposed in the President's fiscal year 2013 budget request when compared to current operating budget levels (fiscal year 2012)."

7 Apr 2012

Recognizing U.S. contributions to Zambia's fight against malaria

In this Washington Post opinion piece, columnist Michael Gerson examines anti-malaria efforts in Zambia, writing, "Zambia has been the main test case for anti-malaria efforts during the last several years -- a focus of funding by the U.S. government, the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation] and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria."

7 Apr 2012

NIH to award $20M over 5 years to support global health training for scientists

"A network of global health research training institutions will increasingly focus on the rising levels of chronic diseases in developing countries, the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center announced on Wednesday," CQ HealthBeat reports (Bristol, 4/4).

6 Apr 2012

Global Fund updates global health community advocates on recent changes to organization

"Christoph Benn, director of resource mobilization and donor relations at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, updated global health community advocates Wednesday on ... the multilateral organization," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports.

6 Apr 2012

TB survivors speak at USAID World TB Day event

The Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog summarizes an event hosted by USAID in late March to commemorate World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. The blog includes "brief profiles and pictures of some of the survivors featured in the event 'Voices of TB.'"

5 Apr 2012

Fogarty receives NIH grant to help foster next generation of global health scientists

To help foster the next generation of global health scientists, Fogarty International Center and its partners at the National Institutes of Health are building a network of U.S. academic institutions to provide early-career physicians, veterinarians, dentists and scientists with a significant mentored research experience in a developing country.

5 Apr 2012

Merck announces data from ZOSTAVAX Phase III study on shingles

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that data from the pivotal Phase III study with ZOSTAVAX(Zoster Vaccine Live) in adults ages 50 to 59 were published in the April 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

3 Apr 2012

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Latest Tuberculosis News and Research

World Bank selects U.S. nominee Jim Kim as president

Gates Foundation, Brazilian health ministry form alliance to expand Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative

Imaxio closes EUR 2.9 million funding round

Responses to U.S. nomination of Jim Kim for World Bank presidency

Genetically modified mosquitoes offer hope of malaria eradication amid growing drug resistance

Global Fund's restructuring shows organization's viability

DEP exposure suppresses function of phagocytic immune cells

Next five years important for S. Africa to show it can effectively respond to HIV, TB

Support for Global Fund helps work of PEPFAR

Inexpensive female genital schistosomiasis prevention could help reduce women's risk of HIV infection

U.S. must embrace competitive election process for World Bank presidency to support Kim's nomination

New WHO endorsed diagnostic tool for TB

Nursing research news from Johns Hopkins

Analysis examines potential global health impact of Obama administration's FY13 budget request

Recognizing U.S. contributions to Zambia's fight against malaria

NIH to award $20M over 5 years to support global health training for scientists

Global Fund updates global health community advocates on recent changes to organization

TB survivors speak at USAID World TB Day event

Fogarty receives NIH grant to help foster next generation of global health scientists

Merck announces data from ZOSTAVAX Phase III study on shingles

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