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PBS blog series explores mhealth in Africa

Maternal Health Task force — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:18:00 +0000

PBS is in the midst of publishing a ten-part blog series exploring the connections between between mobile technology and health in Africa. In its latest post, the series highlights the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action’s (MAMA) Ask MAMA Mobi, which … Continue reading →

PBS blog series explores mhealth in Africa

PBS Blog Features Stories Looking At Mobile Technology And Health In Africa

Kaiser GH Update — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:57:00 +0000

PBS’s “Rundown” blog features two stories as part of the “Cheers Report,” a “series of reports on the impact of mobile technology and health in 10 African countries.” In the first story, Imani Cheers, the director of educational resources and a multimedia producer for the PBS NewsHour, describes how mobile phones are helping to fight malaria in Zambia, where community health workers receive cell phones in return for their rapid reporting of malaria cases (4/25). The second story describes how “the Malawi Ministry of Health and [non-governmental organizations (NGOs)] such as Village Reach are collaborating with communities to use cell phones to address some of the causes of poor health care for women and children,” such as “limited availability of timely and reliable health information, access and use of health facilities and delays in services,” Cheers reports (4/26).

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PBS NewsHour Examines Proposed Changes To U.S. Food Aid Program

Kaiser GH Update — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:26:00 +0000

PBS NewsHour on Wednesday aired two video reports examining proposed changes to the U.S. food aid program included in President Obama’s FY 2014 budget request released this month. In a video analysis, correspondent Margaret Warner “reports on [the] new budget proposal that would redirect nearly half the money to buy bulk food more locally to the countries that need it” (4/24). In a corresponding video debate, Warner talks to Ellen Levinson of the Alliance for Global Food Security and former USAID administrator Andrew Natsios about their views on the issue (4/24).

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The infelicities of quarantine

PLoS Medicine Blog — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:00:00 +0000

In 2009, as panic struck global health systems confronted with the H1N1 flu epidemic, a familiar strategy was immediately invoked by health officials worldwide: quarantine. In Hong Kong, 300 hotel guests were quarantined in their hotel for at least a week after one guest came down with H1N1. Such measures are certainly extreme, but they do raise important questions about quarantine. How do we regulate quarantine in practice?

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PBS Blog Interviews Journalist Jon Cohen About Progress Against HIV/AIDS

Kaiser GH Update — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:34:00 +0000

The PBS NewsHour’s “The Rundown” blog features an interview with journalist Jon Cohen, in which he discusses the possibility of an “AIDS-free generation,” recent reports from UNAIDS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AIDS funding, HIV vaccine research, and World AIDS Day. “So there’s good news in the sense that the epidemic has stabilized, that new infections are dropping compared to a decade ago. And the more sobering news is there’s a lot of progress that the world collectively agreed should happen by 2015 … and it just doesn’t look like much of it is going to happen,” Cohen said about data in the UNAIDS’ World AIDS Day report: Results, the blog reports (Kane, 11/30).

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Haiti Faces Rise In Cholera Cases After Flooding Caused By Hurricane Sandy

Kaiser GH Update — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:09:00 +0000

“Flooding in Haiti caused by Hurricane Sandy has triggered a surge in cholera, with three deaths and almost 300 suspected cases, adding to a death toll from the storm of 54,” the Financial Times reports (Mander, 11/2). “Already struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac in August, which in turn set back rebuilding from the earthquake of January 2010, Haiti now faces renewed crises on multiple fronts,” PBS NewsHour’s “The Rundown” writes (Lazaro, 11/2). “Three days of torrential downpours and strong winds brought by Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of Haiti’s fragile agriculture and have put a million and a half Haitians at risk for hunger, the United Nations’ humanitarian-aid coordination office said over the weekend,” according to the Wall Street Journal, which notes, “Potential food-price increases worry international and Haitian officials” (Arnesen, 11/4).

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Pakistan: National Drug Use Household Survey Consultant (source: Relief…

Eldis Jobs — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:19:00 +0000

Organisation: UN Office on Drugs and Crime Country: Pakistan Closing date: 31 Oct 2012 BACKGROUND The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Country Office for Pakistan (COPAK) is tasked with assisting Pakistan through its Country Programme (CP) 2010-14 with a focus on needs related to illicit trafficking and border management, criminal justice and drug demand reduction and HIV/AIDS. The previous national survey to estimate the patterns and prevalence of drug use and addiction in Pakistan was conducted in 2006. Recent household survey to assess the prevalence of drug use in the country will be implemented in 2012. This survey will provide updated information on the extent, patterns and trends of drug use with its related social and health problems, and conclude with recommendations on intervention strategies. It will help enhance the capacity of the Government of Pakistan to provide modern and adequate drug prevention treatment and rehabilitation by increasing their situational awareness through the availability of accurate data on drug use in Pakistan

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Leaders Gather At Columbia University Event To Discuss Local, Global…

Kaiser GH Update — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:10:00 +0000

A UNAIDS feature story reports on an event, titled “A Future without HIV/AIDS: Dream or Reality?,” held at Columbia University on September 28 and co-hosted by the World Leaders Forum and the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP). PBS Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez moderated the debate, which included Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby; UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe; and Wafaa El-Sadr, director of ICAP and the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health. The leaders exchanged “experiences around local and global responses to AIDS,” the article notes (10/2). PBS NewsHour’s “The Rundown” recaps the event and provides a video replay (Suarez, 9/27).

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World Working Together To End Polio

Kaiser GH Update — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:09:00 +0000

In a post on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists” blog, foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates writes about traveling to New York this week to deliver a speech to the U.N. on polio eradication, one of the top five global health priorities as described by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “New polio cases are the lowest they’ve ever been and there are currently just three countries, down from 125 in 1988, where polio is still endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan,” Gates notes.

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Advocacy Partnership Development Adviser, Save the Children, London,…

Eldis Jobs — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:29:00 +0000

Advocacy Partnership Development Adviser, Save the Children, London, £32,000 Duration: Fixed term – six months Grade: 3 – £32,000 to £35,000 Location: London Save the Children has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a private sector partner to work together to reduce deaths of under-five year olds, as part of our global campaign on child survival.

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WEBCAST: Kaiser Family Foundation Interviews Science’s Jon Cohen Regarding…

Kaiser GH Update — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

“Science Magazine reporter Jon Cohen speaks with the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Jackie Judd about the willingness of scientists to discuss the possibility of a ‘cure’ for HIV/AIDS,” in a “Washington Notebook” interview on the foundation’s website, PBS NewsHour reports. In the interview, Cohen highlights a report to be released later this week about successes in the area of “functional cure” research, the news service notes (7/23).

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AIDS 2012 Could Focus Spotlight On Efforts Against HIV/AIDS In U.S.,…

Kaiser GH Update — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:16:00 +0000

Noting that Washington, D.C., has an adult HIV prevalence rate higher than some southern African countries that receive PEPFAR funding, GlobalPost writes that the International AIDS Conference, to be held in the U.S. for the first time in 22 years starting Sunday, has highlighted “that America is nowhere close to an AIDS-free generation at home.” The news service continues, “Attendees hope AIDS 2012 will help set the agenda, both globally and domestically, as leaders, activists, and advocates from around the world discuss the achievements made and the goals ahead.” GlobalPost notes that it co-produced a segment examining the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic with PBS NewsHour that aired on Thursday (Judem, 7/19).

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PBS NewsHour Shares Stories Of Those Affected By HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Kaiser GH Update — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:35:00 +0000

“As Washington prepares to host the International AIDS Conference from July 22-27, PBS NewsHour will profile some of the parallel stories unfolding around the epidemic on opposite ends of the globe,” the news service writes. In the first of these stories, the news service profiles two individuals — John Johnson in Washington, D.C., and Alice Sibanda in Hwange, Zimbabwe — who as children lost their parents to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Noting Zimbabwe and Washington, D.C., are “8,000 miles apart and nearly as distant economically,” the news service writes, “Both have some of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world” (Kane, 7/18).

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Vatican Official Calls On International Community To Provide ‘Free,…

Kaiser GH Update — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:31:42 +0000

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state and number two official, “called Friday on the international community to provide ‘free and efficient treatment’ for AIDS in Africa, starting with pregnant women, mothers and their babies,” Agence France-Presse reports (6/22). During a conference sponsored by the Sant’Egidio Community, which operates the DREAM program (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition) in 10 African countries, “Bertone said the results of DREAM and research by the World Health Organization ‘confirm that universal access to care is achievable, scientifically proven and economically feasible,’” the Catholic News Service writes.

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Coordinator, Human Resources (source: Idealist)

Eldis Jobs — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:11:11 +0000

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NIAID Director Fauci Discusses Truvada On PBS NewsHour

Kaiser GH Update — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:45:00 +0000

The PBS NewsHour on Friday featured an interview of Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), by Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez, in which they discussed an FDA panel’s recommendation that the antiretroviral Truvada be approved for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV among healthy people at risk of contracting the virus. If approved, Truvada “can be potentially very effective” as a prevention modality among specific populations at high risk of contracting HIV, Fauci said, according to the interview. Fauci also discusses the medication’s cost and concerns about adherence to the drug regimen, PBS notes (Suarez, 5/11).

Nicaragua Combats Pneumonia in Country’s Young Via New Vaccine

PBS Global Health Watch — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:12:11 +0000

Listen to the Audio Each year, pneumonia kills more children around the world than malaria, measles and HIV combined. Ray Suarez reports from Nicaragua on efforts to combat the lung infection, which is the leading killer of children under the age of five.

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PBS NewsHour | Are Nurse Practitioners the Solution to Shortage of…

PBS Global Health Watch — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:52:47 +0000

As more Americans become covered by health insurance, the need for primary care is on the rise, but there is a shortage of primary-care physicians. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from Philadelphia on the growing role of nurse practitioners as primary caregivers.

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PBS NewsHour | Vatican Holding Conference on AIDS

PBS Global Health Watch — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:52:43 +0000

Ray Suarez reports from the Vatican on the debate over the use of condoms as HIV prevention and previews his coverage of the Vatican’s AIDS conference.

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PBS NewsHour | Vatican Looks to Lead Conversation on Combating HIV/AIDS

PBS Global Health Watch — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:52:40 +0000

The Catholic Church is hosting a two day conference on the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Ray Suarez reports from Rome.

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