Administrator Shah: “Our experience with GHI has made it clear: our largest opportunities to improve human health do not lie in optimizing services to the 20% of people in the developing world currently reached by health systems; they lie in extending our reach to the 80% who lack access to health facilities. That is where the [...]
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A Success: USAID’s Neglected Tropical Disease Program
By: Elizabeth Thompson, Infectious Disease Communications Liaison/USAID There is a group of diseases you don’t hear much about but that has a terrible impact on more than 1 billion people around the world – that’s one sixth of the world’s population. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified 13 of these as neglected tropical diseases [...]
Integrating Family Planning, HIV, and MNCH Services in Ethiopia and Kenya
By Ed Scholl, AIDSTAR-One Project Director, AIDSTAR-One is funded by USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, and provides rapid technical assistance to USAID and U.S. Government country teams to build effective, well-managed, and sustainable HIV and AIDS programs and promotes new leadership in the global campaign against HIV. Alice arrives at a health center in Western Province, [...]
U.S. Pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Originally published in DipNote,the official blog of the U.S. Department of State. About the Author: Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. I am in New York for the Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The United States is committed to the success of the Global Fund [...]
African First Ladies Fellowship to Strengthen Leadership on Health and Social Ills
By Rear Adm. (ret) Tim Ziemer, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator Today I participated in the first RAND African First Ladies Fellowship Program workshop, hosted in partnership with American University. The fellowship program, together with Women’s Campaign International, is working to strengthen the capacity of Africa’s first ladies and their offices to address health and social [...]
USAID @ UNGA: Malaria Efforts Are on Track to Meet to Reduce Malaria Deaths to Near Zero by 2015
By Rear Adm. (ret) Tim Ziemer, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator Prominent leaders in global health and development joined several African heads of state yesterday to announce new commitments to accelerate progress toward ending deaths from malaria, a disease that claims the lives of more than 850,000 Africans each year. Participants included: Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda [...]
COUNTDOWN TO THE MDG SUMMIT: Global Investment in Malaria Prevention Could Save 3 Million Lives Over Next Five Years
By Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator This morning at the National Press Club, I joined the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) to launch the third report from the Progress & Impact Series “Saving Lives with Malaria Control: Counting Down to the Millennium Development Goals”. The report states that the lives of almost [...]
USAID Strengthens Malaria Control Efforts in Africa
NBA and WNBA Bring Nets to Senegal but Grab Mosquitoes, not Baskets
Submitted by: Susan Telingator On Friday, August 6, USAID/Senegal was pleased to be a part of the effort to distribute long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets Campaign and NBA Cares programs in Rufisque, a suburb of Dakar. Teams of NBA (National Basketball Association) and WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) [...]
