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More than 3,000 demonstrators gathered across Swaziland on Thursday for a second day of protests over the king's handling of an economic crisis that they say is causing a shortage of medical supplies, including antiretroviral therapy (ART), the Associated Press/Washington Post reports (7/28).
Speaking at the Saving Lives at Birth Development Exchange at the State Department on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "prais[ed] innovators from around the globe for their work to protect the health and lives of mothers and children at birth, particularly in rural areas of the developing world," IPP Digital reports (Babb, 7/28).
The "crisis in southern Somalia is expected to continue to worsen through 2011, with all areas of the south slipping into famine," according to a U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report for countries sending aid to the region, Reuters reports.
"Spying is a messy business that necessarily involves deceit, and U.S. intelligence operatives need latitude to do their work. In this case, however, the planners and approvers of the CIA [vaccine] operation didn't appropriately calculate the possible consequences of their actions on an agenda that is as important to the world as fighting al-Qaeda," a Bloomberg editorial states.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced a three-year partnership with the soccer team FC Barcelona aimed at promoting polio eradication and highlighting the importance of vaccines, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's "Seattle Big Blog" reports (Sunde, 7/28).
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
News outlets look at a variety of state health policy issues.
Meanwhile, NPR reports on how an abortion rights organization finds the GOP presidential field lacking when it comes to candidates and their positions regarding abortion rights.
Some maintain that robotic pharmacies may simplify the process for patients who need to fill prescriptions, but some pharmacists object.
Health issues continue to make political waves in the run up to the next election.
The Department of Health and Human Services will make available $600 million in loans to help start these co-ops, which were authorized by the health law.
This week's studies are from the Journal of American Medical Association, the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the National Bureau Of Economic Research and the Archieves of Internal Medicine.
As Republican leaders struggle to gather enough votes to push the measure through, news outlets are analyzing a number of related issues -- including how both the House GOP and Senate Democrats' plans avoid tough decisions on entitlement program spending, and how future discussions surrounding Medicare may be significantly altered.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a report about how the debt-ceiling debate may have altered the discussion regarding changes to Medicare.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry (D-Mass.) released a bill (.pdf) on Wednesday that would authorize FY12 and FY13 funding for the State Department and foreign operations, as well as key programs and initiatives, Foreign Policy's blog "The Cable" reports.
In a post on the New York Times' "On the Ground" blog, Rwanda Works Director Josh Ruxin writes about two cousins who are "fighting the international brain-drain trend that is dangerously affecting medicine in the developing world, and [have] committed themselves to building local medical capacity in their native country" by establishing a university and medical school, called the Kigali Medical University (KMU).
NPR's KQED on Wednesday examined how France's 60-year-old network of preventive health clinics for children and parents, which provides care free-of-charge, is being threatened by the nation's flailing economy. "[W]hile it's unlikely that France will abandon its maternal and child health programs, it remains an open question whether social changes and economic reality might intrude into such a sacred French ideal," the article states (Varney, 7/27).
"A UNICEF official says a cholera outbreak in Congo has killed 279 people and infected more than 4,000 others in the last four months," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports (7/27). According to the VOA's "Breaking News" blog, "[a] cholera outbreak has been declared in four provinces with northeastern Orientale province showing the most cases." The WHO last week expressed concern that the disease could spread along the Congo River, according to the blog (7/27).
One year after the U.N. General Assembly "adopted a resolution declaring that safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right," top U.N. officials on Wednesday "stressed the need to realize the human right to water and sanitation, stating that it is critical not only to a life of dignity but also to achieving progress in the areas such as poverty reduction, boosting child health and combating diseases," the U.N. News Centre reports (7/27). Nearly 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water, and more than one million children die each year because of diseases such as cholera that are transmitted by contaminated water, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C notes (Krafczyk, 7/27).
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