Global Health Progress

Aman and his team at Global Health Ideas have been attending the Global Health Council’s 36th Annual International Conference for Global Health this week, and have been reporting what they have seen and heard.

Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health.

These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them will have to start. And they are hardly the only health threats from global warming.

The Director General of Uganda’s Health Services Dr. Sam Zaramba says Uganda has more HIV positive people accessing life prolonging Antiretroviral drugs compared to the rest of people in East and Central African countries.

Dr. Paul Farmer, a pioneer in improving health services in the Third World, has been named chairman of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine but remains in the running for a senior role in the Obama administration, the leader of the medical school said yesterday.

Washington, DC – May 27, 2009 – Global Health Progress joins the Global Health Council in congratulating Dr. Harshad Sanghvi, vice president and medical director of Jhpiego, for winning the 2009 Best Practices in Global Health Award for his work to address the issue of postpartum hemorrhaging (PPH).  The award is given annually by the [...]

On May 26, 2009, at the 36th Annual International Conference, Global Health Council Board of Directors Chair Susan Dentzer announced that Jeffrey L. Sturchio has been named the president and CEO of the Council. Sturchio is a longtime leader at Merck & Co. whose quiet diplomacy led to programs treating more than 100,000 AIDS patients [...]

The World Health Organization may alter its pandemic warning system after some countries including the U.K. said raising the alert over the current swine flu threat could incite confusion and cause a loss of confidence.

Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest vaccine maker, said Monday it has won a US$190-million order from the United States government to make a swine flu vaccine.

Sanofi-aventis and the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) announced today that they have signed an agreement of the development, manufacturing and distribution of fexinidazole, a promising new drug for the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, a fatal disease that threatens 60 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Minister of Health Prof. David Mwakyusa today dedicated the first in a series of regional-level hospital laboratories being modernized or built across Tanzania, improving the quality of care for millions of people who rely on their services.