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Integrated programming necessary to address root causes of poverty, poor health

"From the rural villages in northern Uganda to the bustling city of Kampala, the poverty-fighting programs I visited last week have something notable in common: they demonstrate how integrated programming can help achieve sustainable changes in the lives of women, men and their families," Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA, writes in the Huffington Post Blog.

12 Apr 2012

Communications engineers join fight against AIDS in Africa through wireless printer program

The Associated Press/Huffington Post reports on how communications engineers are joining the fight against AIDS in Africa, highlighting a project in Mozambique that brings wireless printers equipped with cell phone technology to remote villages.

12 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

Participation of big pharma companies critical to success of drug patent pools

In this post in the Huffington Post's "Impact" blog, David de Ferranti, president of the Results for Development Institute, and Robert Hecht, managing director at the Institute, examine whether patent pools could help increase access to AIDS drugs among the world's poor, writing, AIDS program managers and advocates must pursue all measures that can keep the cost of treatment low and affordable.

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

New report calls on nations to recognise dementia as a public health crisis

A report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) calls for governments and policymakers to make dementia a global public health priority.

11 Apr 2012

First Edition: April 10, 2012

In today's headlines, a new study finds that the health law, which has long been touted as a means to control costs, could add more than $340 billion to the nation's budget difficulties in the next ten years.

10 Apr 2012

New initiative focusing on GBV and HIV/AIDS will help prevent both

"The advancement of women's health and their rights is one of the core principles of President Barack Obama's Global Health Initiative," a VOA editorial states, adding, "And so it is that the United States has rolled out a new initiative that will tackle one of the greatest threats to women's health, HIV/AIDS, by attacking another scourge: gender-based violence [GBV]."

10 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

Senator Lugar's Farm Bill will deepen nutrition problem in Illinois

Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana reintroduced legislation last month to cut $40 billion from federal farming support and federal nutrition assistance funding, which could eliminate food stamps for 74,000 already hungry Illinois residents, including 15,000 in Chicago.

7 Apr 2012

KU researchers receive inventorship credit on NIH-owned Velcade patents

Pillsbury today announced that its clients, the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., a nonprofit corporation affiliated with KU, prevailed in a closely watched legal battle over cancer drug formulation patents after an arbitration panel ruled in KUCR's favor following years of litigation against the National Institutes of Health.

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

Innovative tool for tracking movement of infectious diseases

It may seem like a game of tag, but it's an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology, the science of how infectious diseases move through a population.

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

Ohio AIDS advocates, patients protest against rationing of lifesaving HIV medicines

A group of Ohio AIDS advocates, patients and medical providers hosted a protest in Columbus today in conjunction with a public hearing held by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and its Director, Theodore E. Wymyslo, M.D., on proposed rule changes that would restrict access to lifesaving AIDS drugs for low-income Ohioans based on medical criteria.

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

2-day meeting examining issues of censorship of scientific studies leaves questions unanswered

A two-day Royal Society meeting held this week in London -- which examined "whether scientific journals should occasionally publish censored versions of papers because the full ones might prove useful to terrorists" -- "brought scientists no closer to resolving the question of whether there are any kinds of experiments whose results should be kept from the public," the Washington Post reports.

6 Apr 2012

Health plan settles lawsuits in Fla.; Minnesota HMOs to return $73M to state, feds

In Florida, a health plan in Tampa will pay $137.5 million to settle lawsuits over Medicare and Medicaid claims, while Magic Johnson plans to invest in a new HIV plan there. In Minnesota, the federal government and the state will split $73 million nonprofit HMOs are returning while other Minnesota health plans profits jump 21 percent.

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

AIDS News and Research

Integrated programming necessary to address root causes of poverty, poor health

Communications engineers join fight against AIDS in Africa through wireless printer program

Support for Global Fund helps work of PEPFAR

Participation of big pharma companies critical to success of drug patent pools

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

New report calls on nations to recognise dementia as a public health crisis

First Edition: April 10, 2012

New initiative focusing on GBV and HIV/AIDS will help prevent both

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

Senator Lugar's Farm Bill will deepen nutrition problem in Illinois

KU researchers receive inventorship credit on NIH-owned Velcade patents

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

Innovative tool for tracking movement of infectious diseases

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

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

Ohio AIDS advocates, patients protest against rationing of lifesaving HIV medicines

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

2-day meeting examining issues of censorship of scientific studies leaves questions unanswered

Health plan settles lawsuits in Fla.; Minnesota HMOs to return $73M to state, feds

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

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Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

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