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IRIN interview examines implementation of financial transaction tax in Mozambique

Noting "Mozambique has become the latest African country to implement a financial transaction tax and airplane levy to fund health services in developing countries, part of the UNITAID initiative," IRIN interviews Philippe Douste-Blazy, board chair of the international financing mechanism, "about the state of play in innovative health financing."

20 Mar 2013

Weill Cornell Medical College researchers call for clearer definition of population health

Accountable Care Organizations, a key feature of the Affordable Care Act, aim to control health care costs, enhance quality in health care and improve population health. But what does "improving population health" really mean? This is the question asked in a new viewpoint article by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers published in the March 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

20 Mar 2013

U.N. SG Ban calls on public health academics to play role in post-2015 development goals

Speaking on Wednesday at the Global Colloquium of University Presidents, hosted by New York University, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "called on the global public health academic community to be active partners in the future development framework as the international community starts to set its post-2015 anti-poverty goals," the U.N. News Centre reports.

16 Mar 2013

New amfAR issue briefs examine U.S. investment in global health, foreign aid

amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has published two new issue briefs examining U.S. investment in global health.

16 Mar 2013

Developing countries making gains in life expectancy, education, other markers, Human Development Index says

The U.N. Development Programme on Thursday in Mexico City launched the Human Development Index 2013, which "combines measures of life expectancy, literacy, school enrollment and gross domestic product per capita," the U.N. News Centre reports.

16 Mar 2013

ABC News examines how newly selected Pope's stance on contraception might impact Catholic organizations working on HIV/AIDS

ABC News examines how the selection of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina to be Pope might impact Catholic organizations' work in disease prevention, including HIV/AIDS prevention.

16 Mar 2013

Food security, development strategies must make empowering women 'a priority'

"Development actors may agree on the need to empower women, but it is hard to mobilize resources, and to target these resources, when the goal in question is so broad and diffuse," Olivier de Schutter, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, states in an opinion piece in the Guardian's "Global Development Professionals Network."

15 Mar 2013

Cultural preferences for sons dampens contraception usage

While poverty and under-education continue to dampen contraception use in Nepal, exacerbating the country's efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality rates, researchers say another, more surprising factor may be more intractable: Deeply held cultural preferences for sons over daughters.

15 Mar 2013

Report estimates employer costs that would result from states' refusal to expand Medicaid

According to Bloomberg, the report by Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. estimates the cost to employers to be $1 billion. Meanwhile, other news outlets report on state-level decisions and developments related to the expansion.

15 Mar 2013

New Pope will need to consider burden of NTDs

"Almost certainly, in its deliberations [to select a new Pope,] the conclave of cardinals will consider a number of difficult and well-publicized problems now facing the Catholic Church," Peter Hotez, co-editor in chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, writes in the journal's "Speaking of Medicine" blog.

14 Mar 2013

Study: Dietary deficiency of mineral selenium likely to be endemic among Malawi population

Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilisers could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death in the African country of Malawi, researchers have said.

14 Mar 2013

Ariz., Fla. governors face intra-party opposition to Medicaid expansion

News outlets reports that, in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott's support for the expansion was rebuffed by a Senate panel that voted against the expansion plan and instead is advancing an idea that would use federal money for private insurance.

14 Mar 2013

Viewpoints: 'Grim' backlog at VA; Feds should stay away from reforming medical malpractice

A new report based on previously unreleased data from the Department of Veterans Affairs paints a distressing portrait of an agency buried helplessly in paperwork -- with a claims backlog that has gotten far worse in the past four years.

13 Mar 2013

Objections to sexual, reproductive rights language in CSW agreement are 'misguided'

"[W]hile sitting through events, debates and discussions in New York [at the Commission on the Status of Women meeting], my recurring thought was why, in 2013, are we still arguing over whether women should have ownership of their own bodies?" Liz Ford, deputy editor of the Guardian's global development website, asks in the newspaper's "Poverty Matters Blog."

13 Mar 2013

Health law's Medicaid expansion triggers flurry of state legislature debates, decisions

The Washington Post reports that Arkansas has discovered "wiggle room" regarding the expansion. Meanwhile, debates in state legislatures continue over what should happen in Arizona, Utah, California and Texas. And, in Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett plans a meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

12 Mar 2013

Many challenges exist to delivering proven interventions for preventing pediatric HIV infections

Last week's "scientific report on the 'functional cure' of a HIV-infected infant has set the world's media ablaze with discussion and speculation," Randal Kuhn, director of the Global Health Affairs Program at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, and Benjamin Young, chief medical officer of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, write in a GlobalPost opinion piece.

12 Mar 2013

State highlights: Ga. health bills advance on 'Crossover Day'

A selection of health policy stories from Georgia, New York, Massachusetts, Kentucky and California.

11 Mar 2013

'Energy poverty' leaves more than 1B in developing countries without access to adequate health care, report says

"Energy poverty has left more than one billion people in developing countries without access to adequate health care, with staff forced to treat emergency patients in the dark, and health centers lacking the power they need to store vaccines or sterilize medical supplies, according to ... this year's Poor People's Energy Outlook, published on Wednesday by the non-governmental organization Practical Action," the Guardian reports.

11 Mar 2013

Ark. lawmakers override veto, ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy

The state House on Wednesday followed the Senate in overriding Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of the measure. Opponents say the law "would blatantly violate" the Constitution and plan to challenge it in court.

8 Mar 2013

Health insurance and poverty the important predictors of late stage breast cancer

Home may be where the heart is, but where you live could affect your health. "Regardless of geographic location, women who live in high poverty areas or are uninsured are at greatest risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer at a later stage," said lead author Kevin Henry, Department of Geography, University of Utah.

7 Mar 2013

Poverty News and Research

IRIN interview examines implementation of financial transaction tax in Mozambique

Weill Cornell Medical College researchers call for clearer definition of population health

U.N. SG Ban calls on public health academics to play role in post-2015 development goals

New amfAR issue briefs examine U.S. investment in global health, foreign aid

Developing countries making gains in life expectancy, education, other markers, Human Development Index says

ABC News examines how newly selected Pope's stance on contraception might impact Catholic organizations working on HIV/AIDS

Food security, development strategies must make empowering women 'a priority'

Cultural preferences for sons dampens contraception usage

Report estimates employer costs that would result from states' refusal to expand Medicaid

New Pope will need to consider burden of NTDs

Study: Dietary deficiency of mineral selenium likely to be endemic among Malawi population

Ariz., Fla. governors face intra-party opposition to Medicaid expansion

Viewpoints: 'Grim' backlog at VA; Feds should stay away from reforming medical malpractice

Objections to sexual, reproductive rights language in CSW agreement are 'misguided'

Health law's Medicaid expansion triggers flurry of state legislature debates, decisions

Many challenges exist to delivering proven interventions for preventing pediatric HIV infections

State highlights: Ga. health bills advance on 'Crossover Day'

'Energy poverty' leaves more than 1B in developing countries without access to adequate health care, report says

Ark. lawmakers override veto, ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy

Health insurance and poverty the important predictors of late stage breast cancer

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Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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