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World Vision receives $19M grant from USAID to help families and communities in Haiti

International relief and development agency World Vision has been awarded a $19 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help families and communities in Haiti affected by the devastating January 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince.

24 Feb 2010

Humans can harbor bacteria in gallstones, infect others with active typhoid fever

A new study suggests that the bacteria that cause typhoid fever collect in tiny but persistent communities on gallstones, making the infection particularly hard to fight in so-called "carriers" - people who have the disease but show no symptoms.

23 Feb 2010

Also in global health news: Infant, maternal mortality in N. Korea; malaria in Cambodia; Zambia PEPFAR program; Pakistan's anti-polio campaign; U.N. Ambassador responds to Somalia; Myanmar refugees

Higher rates of infant and maternal mortality have lead to a decline of life expectancy in North Korea over the past 15 years, census figures, which were obtained with help form the U.N. Population Fund, said on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports (2/22).

23 Feb 2010

Haitian President says up to 300,000 people could have died in quake

The major earthquake in January in Haiti could have killed as many as 300,000 people, an estimate that includes bodies buried in the rubble, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday at a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Mexico, Reuters reports.

23 Feb 2010

U.N. calls for $1.4B to fund basic needs in Haiti through the end of 2010

The U.N. on Thursday launched its "largest appeal following a natural disaster," calling for $1.4 billion "to provide food, water, shelter and sanitation to 3 million Haitians throughout 2010," Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports (Varner, 2/18).

20 Feb 2010

WHO urges medical aid agencies to remain in Haiti as health care system is rebuilt

On Wednesday, the WHO "urged medical aid agencies to stay in Haiti as long as possible while health care is rebuilt following last month's devastating earthquake," Agence France-Presse reports.

19 Feb 2010

U.S. decreases troop presence in Haiti

A decreased need for troops has led the U.S. military to reduce its troops from a high of about 20,000 after the earthquake to 13,000, General Douglas Fraser said on Saturday, Agence France-Presse reports. Fraser also said the Haitian government was resuming control of the Port-au-Prince airport during daylight, according to the AFP.

17 Feb 2010

Senators Durbin, Brown travel to Africa to focus on health, other issues

U.S. senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) departed Friday "for a trip to Africa," the Associated Press/Chicago Tribune reports. The Senators "planned to visit Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia and Sudan. They [are] expected to return to the United States on Feb. 19" (2/13).

17 Feb 2010

Seminar held in Tallinn provides information about hygienic design and cleaning procedures

Hygiene in food processing factories is highly dependent on hygienic design of the process lines and equipment as well as on cleaning efficiency. Principles of hygiene design are simple but several faults appear in food processing premises. Hygienically designed process lines are supposed to be cleanable but still optimization of cleaning programs is worthwhile.

11 Feb 2010

Haitian death toll climbs to 230,000, government says

The death toll from the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti has risen to 230,000, Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, the country's communications minister, said on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.

11 Feb 2010

Asset Recovery certified by NAID for computer hard drive sanitization and destruction

Asset Recovery Corporation, a leader in environmentally-sound IT asset disposal solutions, announced today that it has been certified by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) for computer hard drive sanitization and destruction. Both its plant-based and mobile solutions received certification.

10 Feb 2010

$1.2B needed to aid women, children in 28 countries 'in crisis,' UNICEF says

UNICEF on Thursday launched a $1.2 billion appeal aimed at providing "life saving emergency assistance to millions of children and women in dire need," VOA News reports (Schlein, 2/4). "The appeal is part of UNICEF's Humanitarian Action Report 2010, released in Geneva ... which spotlights the desperate situation of children and women in 28 countries and territories facing deep humanitarian crises," the U.N. News Centre writes (2/4).

6 Feb 2010

Voila helps restore and set up public safety communication networks in Haiti relief efforts

Haiti telecom operator Voila has been busy since the January 12 earthquake providing local and international service to over a million Haitian customers and thousands of incoming relief workers. However, Voila technicians are also assisting a host of agencies – from the US Coast Guard to international NGOs – to set up or restore public safety communications networks and to launch new text services tailored specifically for disaster relief.

5 Feb 2010

Providing Tamiflu and educating on sanitizer use helped to stop spread of H1N1 at boys' summer camp

Providing preventive Tamiflu and educating and emphasizing the need for repeated hand sanitizer use and disinfectant spray helped stop the spread of H1N1 influenza at a boys' summer camp in northern Alabama, according the co-director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

4 Feb 2010

Despite improvements, aid delivery bottlenecks persist in Haiti

Three weeks after a major earthquake struck Haiti, challenges in getting aid to those in need persist, the Washington Post reports. "Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the relief effort has escalated in recent days and will continue to do so.

4 Feb 2010

U.S. government resumes medical evacuations from Haiti; new food voucher distribution targeting women begins

"The U.S. government said on Sunday it would resume military evacuation flights" within 12 hours for critically ill and injured Haitians who were harmed in the Jan. 12 earthquake, Reuters reports (Rosenberg/Brown, 1/31). Medical evacuations had been suspended for a few days, but the reason for the suspension "is unclear as various government authorities have provided different explanations," the Wall Street Journal reports.

2 Feb 2010

Senate foreign relations committee hearing examines aid to Haiti, rebuilding; Senators introduce legislation

At a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on Thursday and in a "separate teleconference by relief organizations," officials said international aid to Haiti has been delayed by the "island nation's inept government, a lack of coordination by aid organizations and the legacy of past U.S. policy failures," McClatchy/Miami Herald reports.

30 Jan 2010

Rotavirus vaccine could save millions of children in developing countries, studies find

Efforts to vaccinate "infants against rotavirus could save the lives of millions of children in developing nations who would otherwise die from the diarrhea-causing disease, two new studies show," HealthDay/BusinsessWeek reports.

28 Jan 2010

Studies in Mexico and Africa demonstrate the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccine

For the first time ever, studies in Mexico and Africa, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrate a reduction in diarrheal disease deaths following rotavirus vaccine introduction in Mexico and vaccine efficacy among impoverished populations in Malawi and South Africa.

28 Jan 2010

Clinton rebuffs criticism of U.S. aid to Haiti, pledges redoubling of efforts to help quake survivors

"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she resents criticism of the U.S. effort to help stricken Haiti and pledged to redouble efforts to help survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake," the Associated Press/CBSNews.com reports. "I deeply resent those who attack our country, the generosity of our people and the leadership of our president in trying to respond to historically disastrous conditions after the earthquake," she said.

27 Jan 2010

Sanitization News and Research

World Vision receives $19M grant from USAID to help families and communities in Haiti

Humans can harbor bacteria in gallstones, infect others with active typhoid fever

Also in global health news: Infant, maternal mortality in N. Korea; malaria in Cambodia; Zambia PEPFAR program; Pakistan's anti-polio campaign; U.N. Ambassador responds to Somalia; Myanmar refugees

Haitian President says up to 300,000 people could have died in quake

U.N. calls for $1.4B to fund basic needs in Haiti through the end of 2010

WHO urges medical aid agencies to remain in Haiti as health care system is rebuilt

U.S. decreases troop presence in Haiti

Senators Durbin, Brown travel to Africa to focus on health, other issues

Seminar held in Tallinn provides information about hygienic design and cleaning procedures

Haitian death toll climbs to 230,000, government says

Asset Recovery certified by NAID for computer hard drive sanitization and destruction

$1.2B needed to aid women, children in 28 countries 'in crisis,' UNICEF says

Voila helps restore and set up public safety communication networks in Haiti relief efforts

Providing Tamiflu and educating on sanitizer use helped to stop spread of H1N1 at boys' summer camp

Despite improvements, aid delivery bottlenecks persist in Haiti

U.S. government resumes medical evacuations from Haiti; new food voucher distribution targeting women begins

Senate foreign relations committee hearing examines aid to Haiti, rebuilding; Senators introduce legislation

Rotavirus vaccine could save millions of children in developing countries, studies find

Studies in Mexico and Africa demonstrate the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccine

Clinton rebuffs criticism of U.S. aid to Haiti, pledges redoubling of efforts to help quake survivors

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