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  • CSIS Report Examines Changing Role Of Private Sector In Global Health

    This report, published by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on Tuesday and titled "The Private-Sector Role in Public Health," reflects on an evolution in the roles and responsibilities of business in global health over the recent decades. "Private-sector engagement was among the main issues addressed at the recent 4th High Level Forum for Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea," CSIS writes on its website, adding, "[A]s Lars Thunell, executive vice president and CEO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), observed, 'This could be the turning point where we recognize the mutually supportive roles of the private and public sectors in promoting development'" (Sturchio/Goel, 1/31).

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  • First Edition: February 2, 2012

    Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports from Capitol Hill about ongoing efforts to reach a deal on the "doc fix" as well as the latest on the flap between the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation and Planned Parenthood.

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  • CBO: Federal Health Spending To Double Over The Next Decade

    In its budget and economic outlook, the Congressional Budget Office projects an 8 percent annual increase in health spending between 2012 and 2022, mainly because of an aging U.S. population and rising treatment costs. The analysis includes a bigger pricetag for a permanent fix to the Medicare physician payment formula.

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  • Religious Protests Continue In Response To Obama Administration Birth Control Rule

    The White House continues to defend its new insurance coverage rule, which requires religiously affiliated nonprofit groups to provide free birth control coverage to women. Also in the news, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is considered to be on the short list for the GOP vice presidential pick, introduced legislation Tuesday that would vastly expand the opt-out ability of religious or faith-based employers.

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  • Romney Claims Florida Primary Win

    Rick Santorum, another GOP presidential hopeful, says the messy Florida campaign caused damage to Republicans and plans to deliver a speech about "Obamacare" and "Romneycare" today in Colorado. The Democratic National Committee hits Mitt Romney on Medicare, and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., offers legislation aimed at Newt Gingrich.

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  • Medicaid: Wis. Program Facing $141 Million Shortfall

    Supporters of a proposed Connecticut health plan for poor adults say it should be implemented soon to help support state efforts to expand coverage under the federal health law in 2014. Also, a report in Wisconsin finds that the Medicaid program will run short of funds over the next year and a half.

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  • Nursing Homes, Hospitals Warn Against Reimbursement Cuts

    As the House and Senate conferees continue to hold meetings to reach an agreement to extend the payroll tax break and the Medicare "doc fix," health care interests are offering input into the process and making pleas to ward off what they say would be deep and damaging spending reductions.

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  • February Issue Of WHO Bulletin Available Online

    The February issue of the WHO Bulletin features an editorial on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; a public health round-up; an article on the health care challenges posed by population aging; a research paper on the systems approach to improving maternal health in the Philippines; and a policy paper on reducing death rates from cyclones in Bangladesh (February 2012).

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  • Rethinking Government Approach To GHI

    In this post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance" blog, Connie Veillette, director of CGD's rethinking U.S. foreign assistance initiative, highlights two recent posts by CGD's Amanda Glassman and Nandini Oomman on the future of the Global Health Initiative (GHI). She writes, "With the Appropriations Committee weighing in by requiring a status report by mid-February on transitioning GHI to USAID, it is no understatement that the GHI is at an important juncture. Declining budgets for foreign assistance will also require new thinking on where the U.S. provides assistance and for what purpose" (1/31).

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  • Pilot Program In Tanzania To Improve TB Detection Shows Promise, IRIN Reports

    "A pilot community program to improve [tuberculosis (TB)] detection in northern Tanzania has shown good results and could be replicated nationwide as the country seeks to improve its TB treatment and prevention systems," IRIN reports. The program, run by Management Sciences for Health with help from PATH and Tanzania's National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme and financial support from USAID, "emphasized that TB and HIV treatment must be done 'hand in hand,'" according to IRIN.

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  • Collapse Of Global Fund Would Stall Global Health Efforts

    "The Global Fund's drive to ensure sustainability and efficiency means that it may not be able to meet its commitments to combat disease, says Laurie Garrett," a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, in Nature's "World View" column. Citing his resignation letter, Garrett discusses the "the political struggle" that led Michel Kazatchkine to step down as executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria last week and writes, "It is a classic battle of titans, pitting urgency against long-term sustainability. ... Kazatchkine essentially conceded victory to the forces for sustainability."

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