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  • First Edition: July 26, 2011

    Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about Washington's debt-celing showdown, and news that the federal government will conduct health insurance rate reviews in 10 states.

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  • Some Hospitals Face Hard Times

    Walter Reed Army Medical Center will close its doors after nearly a century. By month's end, the Shriners Hospitals will stop its tradition of providing free care to children. And, lastly, hospital bonds maybe vulnerable to downgrades because of potential reduction in Medicare reimbursements and Medicaid cuts.

    By khnweb

  • East Africa Famine Highlights Need For Better Science Communications

    The drought in the Horn of Africa "emphasizes the gap between our rapidly increasing ability to predict disasters, thanks largely to advances in science and technology, and our capacity to generate the political will to carry out effective mitigation strategies," according to a SciDev.Net opinion piece by editor David Dickson.

    By khnweb

  • African Leaders Must Invest In Malaria Prevention

    In a Daily Caller opinion piece, Richard Tren, director of Africa Fighting Malaria, highlights a finding in a recent malaria report that the U.S. government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "were responsible for 85% of the steep increase in malaria funding between 2007 and 2009." But "[i]f 30 African heads of state were to give up their private jets, a fund of well over $500 million could be generated," Tren writes.

    By khnweb

  • Media Outlets Examine Mobile Phones’ Effect On Health, Development In Africa

    PBS NewsHour examines how the Canadian organization MEDA is using text messages to track malaria supplies in local clinics and retailers in Tanzania. The piece includes a related video featuring a MEDA employee giving a tour of the program (Cheers, 7/22).

    In related news, the Observer reports on the impact mobile phones are having in Africa, including on banking, farming and health. The article includes case studies examining how mobile technology is being used in certain areas of the continent (Fox, 7/24). A related video documents how mobile phones are affecting Uganda's most remote communities (Eldin, 7/24).

    By khnweb

  • Britain, Australia Urge International Community To Assist In Drought Relief

    Andrew Mitchell, Britain's international development secretary, and Kevin Rudd, Australia's foreign minister, describe their countries' responses to the drought and famine in East Africa in an Independent opinion piece. "The U.N. appeals are still underfunded by almost $1 billion. Britain and Australia urge the rest of the world to join them to work to prevent this humanitarian disaster turning into a catastrophe on a scale of the 1984 Ethiopian famine," they write.

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  • U.N. Emergency Meeting Recognizes Need For Urgent Response To Horn Of Africa Drought

    At an emergency meeting at the Rome headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday, the agency announced "there will be a donors pledging conference Wednesday in Nairobi to raise as much as $1.6 billion to help fight famine in Somalia and other drought-stricken populations in East Africa," the Associated Press/Forbes reports (7/25). Prior to the meeting, the World Bank "announced it is providing more than $500 million to assist drought victims, in addition to $12 million in immediate assistance to help those worst hit by the crisis," a World Bank press release states (7/25).

    By khnweb

  • Haitian Cholera Epidemic Worsening With Start Of Rainy Season

    According to the Haitian government, more than 5,800 people have died of cholera since the epidemic began in October, and health care workers have seen an increase in cases "[w]ith the rainy season now in progress," the Los Angeles Times reports (Gaestel, 7/24).

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  • Rwandan Government Pushing For Sanitation Facilities In Every Household

    Rwanda "is one of only four countries in Africa which look set to achieve Millennium Development Goal 7 to ensure environmental sustainability, which includes halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation," Inter Press Service reports in an article examining hygiene and sanitation in the country. The other three countries are Mozambique, Ghana and Sierra Leone, the news service notes.

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  • Iowa, Kentucky Get Extra Time To Comply With MLR Rule

    But North Dakota became the first state to have the Department of Health and Human Services deny a waiver request regarding the health law's medical loss ratio provision, which requires health plans in the individual and small-group markets to spend no more than 20 percent of premiums on administrative costs.

    By khnweb

  • Rwanda Testing Non-Surgical Circumcision Device In National Campaign

    BBC News on Sunday looked at how Rwanda's national circumcision campaign, which began in December 2010 to help lower the incidence of HIV in the country, is testing a new "device called a PrePex, a three-piece mechanism consisting of two plastic rings and an elastic mechanism." The device "is clamped onto the penis without any need for sutures or anesthesia" to remove the foreskin.

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  • Male Contraceptive Research Gaining Attention From Scientists

    The New York Times on Saturday examined research into several different methods of male contraception. "Male contraceptives are attracting growing interest from scientists, who believe they hold promise for being safe, effective and, also important, reversible," the newspaper writes. "Prompted by women's organizations, global health groups and surveys indicating that men are receptive, federal agencies are financing research. Some methods will be presented at an October conference sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation," according to the newspaper (Belluck, 7/23).

    By khnweb