tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46285812830516646642024-03-12T19:03:07.728-07:00VITAL REPORT ON GLOBAL HEALTH 2008Online survey available here from June 1st, 2008VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-36904192037110382232009-10-13T02:33:00.000-07:002009-10-13T00:36:26.808-07:00THE VRGH REPORT GLOBAL OPINIONS on GLOBAL HEALTH-IS NOW AVAILABLE !>> http://s233420062.onlinehome.fr/FINAL+REPORT+15.12.08.pdf<<THE VRGH REPORT 2008 is OPEN TO DISCUSSION !PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO LEAVE HERE ANY COMMENT or ADVICE !THANK YOU.VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-12992548627650354492009-01-18T08:34:00.000-08:002009-01-19T08:37:35.075-08:00Global Health For A Globally Minded PresidentPresident-elect Barack Obama can build on historic initiatives championed by his predecessor in global AIDS and malaria. These should serve as the platform for a more comprehensive and evidence-based set of activities aimed at addressing the major causes of ill health and instability in low-income countries. Obama should launch a new Global Family Health Action Plan aimed at saving the lives of VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-69151074351187260072009-01-16T08:22:00.000-08:002009-01-19T08:33:58.222-08:00Report on Maternal & Newborn Health (UNICEF) This report calls attention to the fact that women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries.The health of these mothers is inextricably linked to the health of their babies, the new report points out. A child born in a developing country is almost 14 times more likely to die VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-52685723336073726992008-12-10T02:40:00.000-08:002008-12-11T02:47:19.949-08:00WHO Addresses Financial Crisis' Global Health Impact Impact of the global financial and economic crisis on health.Statement by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan"We face a severe financial crisis of unprecedented dimensions in a world that has never before been so closely connected and interdependent. The consequences are global. The situation is volatile. The current financial crisis is rapidly becoming an economic crisis and threatens to VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-33686178877820988602008-11-23T01:30:00.000-08:002008-11-24T01:34:27.466-08:00Young Voices on Global Health The Lancet, together with the Geneva-based Global Forum for Health Research, have announced the winners of the 2008 essay competition entitled "Young Voices in Research for Health".The 6 winners' essays are available at: http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/archives/487 VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-223627773000111892008-11-13T07:02:00.000-08:002008-11-14T07:16:09.864-08:00VRGH in the WORLD MEDICAL JOURNALThe World Medical Association has published in the last issue of its World Medical Journal (Vol.54, No.3, 2008) an article on the VRGH Initiative on pp. 83-84.Link: http://www.wma.net/e/publications/index.htmVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-24391887756016453222008-10-23T07:09:00.000-07:002008-10-24T08:27:26.684-07:00Europe reaffirms its supports for Global Health The Belgian All Party Parliamentary Group on the MDGs in collaboration with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) organised an International High Level Conference on: “The Future of Parliamentary Involvement in Global Health and Development”.As a key outcome of the Conference, Parliamentarians VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-34221313571482835872008-10-20T06:06:00.000-07:002008-10-21T06:18:48.791-07:00Providing toilets, safe water is top route to improve Global Health : UN UniversitySimply installing toilets where needed throughout the world and ensuring safe water supplies would do more to end crippling poverty and improve world health than any other possible measure, according to an analysis released today by the United Nations University.Diseases due to poor water, sanitation and hygiene account for an estimated 10% of the total global burden of illness.http://VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-30233148732467434322008-10-15T01:00:00.000-07:002008-10-16T01:03:59.192-07:00ASIA: Countries lagging in flu pandemic plans, UN warns Most Asia-Pacific nations are making progress on avian flu control, but are lagging in plans to tackle the social and economic fallout of a human flu pandemic, a senior UN influenza specialist, David Nabarr, has warned. He said: "I'm impressed with progress, but I am saying a lot more needs to be done, particularly on multi-sectoral pandemic preparedness."http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-13493523513763596032008-10-14T02:46:00.000-07:002008-10-15T02:48:58.478-07:00WHO agreed on a research agenda on global climate change and public health A meeting of experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Madrid agreed to a research agenda to develop an evidence-based framework for action on the human health implications of climate change.http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr36/en/index.htmlVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-19648915478113902092008-10-06T02:57:00.000-07:002008-10-09T03:05:01.980-07:00Discoverers of AIDS and Cancer Viruses Win Nobel 2008 Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who found the virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07nobel.html?_r=1&oref=sloginVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-40932288896766281912008-10-05T03:22:00.000-07:002008-10-09T03:28:23.512-07:00Global Health Is a Hot FieldRecently, Washington Post published an article about the current popularity of global health studies among college students.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091804145_pf.htmlVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-58566065418190646692008-10-02T06:18:00.000-07:002008-10-03T06:23:31.758-07:00Report: Millennium Development Goals at midpoint The European Union published a major report on the MDGs with recommendations to address slow progress and disparities.http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/2008%2008%2019%20MDG_Where%20do%20we%20stand_first_draft.pdfVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-4673402178284595412008-09-30T06:24:00.000-07:002008-10-03T06:29:28.923-07:00UK DOH launched "Health is GLOBAL" Strategy The UK Government launched a new strategy “Health is Global” which sets out the span of global health issues and the plan for tackling them across government and with other partners, including civil society organizations.http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_072697VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-55985426831578816872008-09-21T06:35:00.000-07:002008-09-22T06:39:08.912-07:00500,000 Women Die in Pregnancy, ChildbirthMore than half a million women still die each year in pregnancy and childbirth, often bleeding to death because no emergency obstetrical care is available, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. Despite modest progress, particularly in Asia, the global maternal mortality toll remains stubbornly stable due to a lack of financial resources and political will, it said. More than 99 VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-87588363866214344032008-09-12T01:18:00.000-07:002008-09-13T01:35:21.148-07:00Declining Global Number of Child Mortality.UNICEF released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five continued to decline in 2007. The new estimates show a 27 per cent decline in the under-five mortality rate, from 93 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990, to 68 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2007. In industrialized countries there are, on average, just six deaths for every 1,000 live births.According to this data, VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-84505131177669958972008-08-27T08:28:00.000-07:002008-08-29T05:32:16.947-07:00Global fight against malaria could be helped by virus that infects mosquitoes!Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a new virus that infects the world’s most dangerous mosquito. In theory, this means it can be modified to kill the mosquito or prevent it from transmitting malaria . However, the authors cautioned, that could take 5 to 15 years of work.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26glob.html?_r=1&oref=sloginVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-6975204657097922582008-08-21T07:52:00.000-07:002008-08-29T05:44:15.157-07:00Water and sanitation crisis still a global health issue Michele Barry, MD and James M. Hughes, MD underlined in a recent article that " Global health issue have captured the attention of gouvernements, global funds, and foundations ...on diseases such as malaria, TB, and AIDS which kill a fraction of the number of people who die from water-related diseases." .These two authors called for an urgent focus on dirty water and sanitation in a world where VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-64316905236053859432008-08-17T00:47:00.000-07:002008-08-18T00:52:57.797-07:00US presidential candidates on Global health In the run-up to the US presidential election, health care continues to dominate the debate. The Lancet reviewed Obama and McCain'pledges in the area of global-health issues.Doc: http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/0140-6736/PIIS0140673608612167.pdfVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-55583831441184355182008-08-13T05:03:00.000-07:002008-08-14T05:09:55.276-07:00Global High food prices put pressure on HIV programmes Steadily increasing prices could lead to a lack of affordable and nourishing food, endangering the lives of people living with HIV in the developing world."As prices continue to rise, people will start to buy cheaper, less nutritious food and may begin to skip meals – in Lesotho we are already seeing people skipping meals because they can't afford food," said Alan Whiteside, an economist with VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-14544972200360161662008-08-11T05:28:00.000-07:002008-08-12T05:34:50.529-07:00Criticism against massive health program in Africa Criticism is increasing against the many giant programmes to particularly tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, which are said to deplete other African health programmes that may have a much greater effect on public health.Link: http://www.afrol.com/articles/29927VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-55384320285864488522008-08-06T02:30:00.000-07:002008-08-07T02:32:16.960-07:00Progress Slow in Global Fight against Tuberculosis A new publication by the United Nations health agency finds that the pace of global efforts to control the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic slowed slightly in 2006, as did progress in diagnosing people with the airborne infectious disease that is both preventable and curable..Link: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26000&Cr=tuberculosis&Cr1VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-66362754479245582462008-08-05T05:11:00.000-07:002008-08-06T05:13:28.410-07:00Maternal Mortality: Little Progress in Africa Over half a million women die in childbirth annually around the world, according to the World Health Organisation. Nigeria alone accounts for 10 percent of these deaths.According to the most recent estimates from the World Health Organisation, published in 2007, Nigeria's maternal mortality rate is the second highest in the world, after India: 1,100 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. The VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-20276736379540871922008-08-03T04:56:00.000-07:002008-08-06T05:03:32.105-07:00XVII INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE, MEXICOThe XVII International AIDS Conference will be held in Mexico from August 3 to 8, 2008.Press release and news concerning this crucial global meeting here: http://www.aids2008.org/start.aspxVRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4628581283051664664.post-50586064209577484192008-07-31T07:29:00.000-07:002008-08-01T07:46:51.901-07:00Report on Global Health actorsThe House of Lord Intergovernmental Organisations Committee (UK) published a report on global health actors. This report reviews the interaction of the various actors on the international health stage, particularly those concerned with infectious disease control. It looks in some detail at the role of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and then turn to address a number of the key issues which VRGH 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/09846575209738620449noreply@blogger.com0