Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report—Tuberculosis

Opinions: Fighting TB; Currency Transaction Tax

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:55:32 GMT

Global Fund Approves $2.4B For Ninth Round Grants

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:22:00 GMT

During its recent board meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria approved $2.4 billion for the three diseases, PlusNews reports. The money is for the fund's "ninth round of grants, bringing the total amount of approved funding since its inception in 2001 to $18.4 billion," according to the publication.

Recent Releases In Global Health

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:30:22 GMT

Recent Releases In Global Health

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Advocates Call For Increased U.S. Investment In Global Health

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:33:35 GMT

A report released Thursday by a group of global health experts outlines ways the U.S. can work toward increasing access to health care throughout the world, Inter Press Service reports.

Global Health Promotion Conference Begins In Kenya, Maternal Mortality Addressed

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:47:44 GMT

At the 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion, which kicked off in Kenya on Monday, participants discussed reducing maternal mortality and the related Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the Daily Nation reports. According to the newspaper, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki "said that globally, the number of maternal deaths had … risen to 536,000 per year, translating to one death per minute."

Also In Global Health News: Ghana, Nigeria Global Fund Grants; CDC Director On Global Health Role; African Peacekeepers And HIV/AIDS

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Recent Releases In Global Health

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:51:00 GMT

Also In Global Health News: Nigeria Global Fund Grant; Pakistani Refugees; Guinea Violence

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:01:00 GMT

Recent Releases In Global Health

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:41:00 GMT

Also In Global Health News: Street Pharmacies; China Health Care; Hospital Safety; African Cardinals; Cells Phones For Health

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:11:00 GMT

News Outlets Examine Efforts To Control TB In South Africa

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Agence France-Presse examines the ongoing fight to control the spread of tuberculosis in South Africa. "The World Health Organisation estimates almost one percent or 461,000 South Africans develop TB annually, with government figures showing that the disease was the country's leading natural cause of death in 2006," the news service writes.

African Leaders, Chirac Unite To Fight Fake Drug Manufacturing, Distribution

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:36:26 GMT

Leaders from Benin, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Congo-Republic, Niger and Senegal on Monday joined former French President Jacques Chirac in Cotonou, Benin, in a campaign against the manufacturing and sale of fake pharmaceutical products, Reuters reports.

Also In Global Health News: HIV Immigration Rules; Global Fund Aid In Kenya; Water Shortage In Yemen; Testing For TB

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:51:00 GMT

Recent Releases In Global Health

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:53:16 GMT

U.S. Should Provide More Leadership In Finding TB Vaccine, Opinion Piece Says

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:48:24 GMT

Tuberculosis deserves an effort as "substantial" as the one mounted against swine flu "to develop a new vaccine," David McMurray, a TB expert at Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, writes in a Houston Chronicle opinion piece. "Since April, ... nearly one million men, women and children have died from TB, compared to 4,200 who have died from H1N1 flu globally. Why didn't you see any headlines? Because 98 percent of the nearly two million people who die each year from TB live in the developing world, in places like Kenya ... Yet TB continues to be a problem in [the U.S.] as well because in an age of globalization, germs cross borders without a passport," McMurray writes.

CNN, TIME Examine Increasing Antibiotic Resistance

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:09:58 GMT

CNN examines a recent report by researchers that warns of increasing antibiotic resistance and appeals for governments to take action to develop new antibiotics to avert a health crisis.

Today - Live, Interactive Webcast On U.S. Strategy For Combating The Global TB Epidemic

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:25:00 GMT

Today at 1 p.m. ET, the Kaiser Family Foundation will hold a live, interactive webcast from its Washington, D.C. studio featuring an expert panel discussing the U.S. strategy for combating the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.

G20 Countries Could Tax Foreign Exchange To Help Achieve U.N. MDGs, Opinion Piece Says

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:03:41 GMT

The G20 countries "could help both the poor and the global economy by fully financing lagging efforts to fight poverty and disease worldwide, and the best way to do this would be to impose a very small tax on the prosperous foreign exchange industry," Philippe Douste-Blazy, a former French foreign minister who is a special adviser to the U.N. secretary general on innovative financing, writes in a New York Times opinion piece.

Also In Global Health News: Malawi HIV/AIDS Fight; Cancer In Developing World

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:31:31 GMT