April 2015 ProjectSyndicate; Economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and improved the lives of many more over the last half-century. Yet it is increasingly evident that a model of human development based on economic progress alone is incomplete. A society which fails to address …

April 2015 huffingtonpost; Right things. Right places. Right now. Six simple words that are strategically guiding the largest U.S. foreign assistance program — PEPFAR — the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. I’ve been privileged to lead PEPFAR for a year now, working with countries to achieve the potential …

April 2015 huffingtonpost; The global response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak was unusual. Mobilization of key players was relatively fast and once they entered the game these players — and the groundbreaking web of partnerships that emerged — accelerated the development and deployment of Ebola vaccines in unprecedented ways. GHIA …

April 2015 TheGuardian;Last month’s intergovernmental negotiations in New York put the spotlight back on the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs) and how to measure their impact. It kicked off a series of high-level meetings in 2015 that will focus on the nitty-gritty of the goals and their respective milestones. The …

April 2015 Health-e; Research conducted in Sydney and recently presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Thoracic Society for Australia and New Zealand found no increase in the proportion of illegal cigarettes since 2012 when Australia became the first country to introduce plain packaging on all tobacco products. Australia’s …

April 2015 SciDevNet; Cuts to global health research budgets and people’s wariness of vaccines could hamper efforts to improve health around the world, two separate reports have warned in the run-up to World Health Day, which is marked today. One of the reports, published by the Global Health Technologies Coalition …

April SciDevNet; Future research and development targeting diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria may be at risk because of across-the-board federal cuts implemented last year by the United States, the largest funder of global health R&D, warns a report. The United States has helped fund the development of 53 …

March 2015 SciDevNet; A trial that trained Ugandan shopkeepers to use subsidised malaria test kits could point to a way of reducing the misuse of malaria medicine. In many poor nations, people often seek treatment for malaria at drug shops, but “a big problem is that most private sector outlets …

March 2015 BusinessDaily; Governors have been given a May 6 deadline to enter a deal with the national government on leasing of medical equipment or miss out. Health secretary James Macharia told Parliament on Wednesday that 35 counties have signed a memorandum of understanding with the national government for the …

March 2015 DailyNews; A SOUTH African Company operating AMI Hospital or Trauma Centre at Msasani area in Dar es Salaam, African Medical Investment Tanzania Public Limited, is bankrupt and has surrendered to the High Court to be wound-up. In a petition filed last week before the High Court’s Main Registry, …