Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

UNICEF Report Highlights Gains In Child Health, While 1B Still Lack Essential Services

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:50:56 GMT

A special edition of UNICEF's annual State of the World's Children report, released 20 years after the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, shows that "fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school – but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development," the Associated Press reports.

USAID Nominee Visits Capitol Hill

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:19 GMT

President Barack Obama's nominee to head USAID, Rajiv Shah, "made the rounds" on Capitol Hill Thursday, which included a meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry (D-Mass.), Politco's Laura Rozen reports on her foreign policy blog.

Evidence Does Not Connect H1N1 Vaccine To Patient Deaths, WHO Says

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:04 GMT

The deaths of 41 people from six countries who had received the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine were not directly linked to the vaccine, the WHO said Thursday, the Associated Press/MSNBC reports (11/19).

News Outlets Examine Malaria Drug Resistance, Hope For Malaria Eradication In Africa

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:17 GMT

Experts at an American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting this week said that resistance to the best available drug to treat malaria "is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported," Science News/Wired Science reports.

The Economist Examines Attention To World's Food Supply

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:17:00 GMT

In an article that examines the recent history of the world's food supply and related policy, The Economist looks at the global effort to boost food security.

Antibiotic Resistance A Growing Problem, Particularly In Southern, Eastern Europe

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:26:21 GMT

Antibiotic resistance is increasing throughout the world because of excessive use, Agence France-Press reports. The news service writes, "Experts at the 2nd annual European antibiotics awareness day held by the Stockholm-based European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC) said new, hyper-resistant bacteria were emerging, threatening the pillars of global health."

Lancet Examines Uganda's Child-Health Volunteers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:32:58 GMT

Lancet World Report examines how a small group of village volunteers trained in basic health care are helping to improve the health of Ugandan children.

Recent Releases In Global Health

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:00 GMT