Posted on May 17, 2012 at 02:34 pm
The World Affairs Council of Atlanta, CARE USA, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) are holding a major conference on how the United States, even in the midst of fiscal austerity and political division, can best advance the world’s health.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012 at 09:08 am
Blog about World Immunization Week 2012 by Dan Thomas, Head of Media and Communications at the GAVI Alliance, a public-private partnership which aims to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to vaccines in the world’s poorest countries.
Posted by Katherine Bliss on Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26 am
This report examines the political history of the international AIDS conferences from 1985 to the present. It is less a survey of major public health achievements in the fight against HIV/AIDS than an examination of the politics of the conferences themselves. It provides insights into the ways the conferences have contributed to the mobilization of funding, research, and advocacy focused on ending the epidemic.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Mar 22, 2012 at 11:50 am
On March 16th, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosted a video “film festival” focusing on vaccines and new media. The event explored how global health organizations and private foundations are making the case for U.S. investments in global immunization, using internet videos and social media to reach U.S. policymakers and the American public.
Posted on Mar 07, 2012 at 03:39 pm
In November 2011, a team from CSIS traveled to Zambia to produce a video on vaccination efforts - their value, their long-term sustainability, and the challenges to their implementation. The video aims to portray the complexities of immunization in Zambia and to make broader points about global immunization efforts.
Posted by J. Stephen Morrison on Mar 07, 2012 at 02:45 pm
Palestinians, Israelis, Americans and others are engaged in high-stakes brinkmanship over recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations. For the Palestinian leadership, pursuing UN statehood and membership in UN bodies holds out the prospect of greater international recognition and rare diplomatic leverage over both the United States and Israel. Membership may bring a visible political victory at a time when Palestinian victories are scarce.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Mar 07, 2012 at 08:54 am
Ten months after suffering “the largest urban disaster in modern history” – a devastating 7.0-magnitude (MMS) earthquake on January 12, 2010 that killed over 316,000 and affected 3 million – Haiti faced an outbreak of cholera. In Part 2 of our look at Haiti's cholera outbreak, CSIS examines the Haitian government's response and the challenges that lie ahead.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Mar 06, 2012 at 04:59 pm
The Dominican Republic reported its first cholera cases in November, 2010 – just two months after the initial outbreak in neighboring Haiti. Two years later, the Dominican Republic has recorded far fewer cholera cases and related deaths than Haiti; the higher quality of the Dominican Republic’s water and sanitation infrastructure and its responsiveness to the cholera outbreak are important reasons for the lower numbers.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Mar 06, 2012 at 04:11 pm
In this blog post, CSIS looks at the science behind cholera: how it is transmitted and how it targets the human being.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Mar 06, 2012 at 03:17 pm
Ten months after suffering “the largest urban disaster in modern history” – a devastating 7.0-magnitude (MMS) earthquake on January 12, 2010 that killed over 316,000 and affected 3 million – Haiti faced an outbreak of cholera. In Part 1 of our look at Haiti's cholera outbreak, CSIS examines the origins of Haiti's cholera outbreak.
Posted by J. Stephen Morrison on Feb 28, 2012 at 03:52 pm
As 2011 wound to a close the drama around the Global Fund intensified, as did the angst and uncertainty of its future, and prospects for a durable recovery. I began at that time a series of conversations with my co-author and friend, Todd Summers, with whom I had written about the Global Fund at its creation a decade ago, and who has remained integrally involved in the Fund’s work. We agreed it would be valuable to compose a candid, fair-minded look back at the root causes of the Fund's travails, combined with a positive but realistic look forward, focused on the emerging, fragile path to the Fund’s restabilization.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Feb 28, 2012 at 02:03 pm
An end to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) may be in sight. The London Declaration on NTDs, announced on January 30th 2012, may mark the beginning of a new era in which these neglected diseases share the spotlight. The London Declaration calls for the eradication, elimination, and control of many NTDs, with target dates set for the year 2020.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012 at 11:47 am
The Global Health Policy Center recently published two reports centered on health in the Middle East: Egypt and U.S. Health Assistance, and Gaza's Health Sector under Hamas.
Posted by Katherine Bliss on Feb 21, 2012 at 10:55 am
From July 22 to 27, 2012, Washington, DC will host the nineteenth international AIDS conference, known as AIDS 2012. The AIDS 2012 conference theme, “Turning the Tide Together,” reflects organizers’ recognition that in 2012 the global AIDS community finds itself at a unique juncture: research advances have made it possible to envision an end to the epidemic at the precise moment when funding challenges threaten to slow progress on scientific discovery and program implementation.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Feb 13, 2012 at 02:32 pm
A debate has been raging the past few months over the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity’s (NSABB) unexpected request in December for two leading scientific journals, Nature and Science, to omit major details from soon to be published papers on the H5N1 influenza virus, commonly known as “bird flu.” This controversy encapsulates the continuing battle between short-term priorities of public health safety vs. the long term priorities of preparedness.
Posted on Feb 06, 2012 at 10:25 am
President Obama recently signed the FY2012 omnibus spending bill that, among other things, reinstated the ban on the use of federal funds for needle and syringe exchange programs (NSEPs); this step reversed the 111th Congress’ 2009 decision to allow federal funds to be used for these programs.
Posted on Feb 01, 2012 at 09:10 am
During recent uprisings in Bahrain, Syria, and Libya, security forces obstructed access to health facilities; harassed, arrested, and prosecuted medical personnel; and even assaulted patients within hospitals. Assaults like these have long been part of the landscape of armed and civil conflict. Yet, for decades, a paucity of regular reporting on the frequency, dynamics, and impacts of these assaults; lack of attention to strategies to prevent attacks; and absence of accountability mechanisms for those who perpetrate assaults has allowed these assaults to continue with impunity.
Posted by CSIS Staff on Jan 31, 2012 at 02:15 pm
The Global Health Policy Center hosted a presentation highlighting the contributions faith-based-organizations make to global health including the fight against HIV/AIDS in particular.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012 at 09:33 am
There is a good chance that India's polio eradication campaign will tell an inspiring story. If this milestone endures, it will be the result of a persistent and focused effort and unprecedented collaboration among Indian scientists, administrators, and their international counterparts. The effort’s ultimate legacy—beyond the unquestioned benefit of reducing or eliminating paralytic polio—will depend on how India’s health leaders consolidate their victory, and how they embed the institutional sources of their apparent success into the country’s remarkably diverse health system.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 at 09:30 am
Although tuberculosis mortality rates had fallen by over a third since 1990, the recent outbreak of the so-called totally-drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in India raises serious international health concerns.
