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Aid Cuts Could Result in A Child Under Five Dying Every Forty Seconds by 2030, Says Oxfam
One of Oxfam’s latest reports says that a child under five may die every forty seconds by 2030 due to these drastic cuts to humanitarian aid. This is especially heartbreaking as global humanitarian efforts have saved more newborn and child lives, and the data proves it.
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Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID
For over 50 years, researchers, clinicians and policymakers in the global health community have worked to eliminate infections, but the gutting of USAID could undo everything.
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Understanding the America First Global Health Strategy
The Trump administration, through the State Department, released its America First Global Health Strategy. This strategy has been long-awaited. The US global health community saw mass firings and the abrupt dismantling of USAID earlier this year.
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4 Reasons The US Is Back on Track With Global Health
As is true with each new presidential administration the global health community hangs in the balance. According to KFF.org the US global health funding was set at $11 billion in FY 2019 and in 2020 the funding was significantly decreased. This funding goes towards programs in more than 70 countries for HIV, malaria, maternal and…
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You’ve Seen the News. Want to Help Nepal? Send Cash!
A 7.9 earthquake hit Central Nepal today. Over 1394 people are reported thus far to have lost their lives in this natural disaster that unfortunately has been predicted by many. Much of Kathmandu’s infrastructure is in ruins, temples have been lost, electricity is out, and thousands are without shelter. The best way to help in this disaster situation is…
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USAID Tackles Respectful Maternity Care, Better Working Conditions for Midwives
This week USAID released its follow-up to Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality: USAID Maternal Health Vision for Action (June 2014) with its new report of the same name with the addition of evidence for strategic approaches. These approaches seek to lower the world’s maternal mortality rate. Right now 289,000 women die per year from complications during…
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Why Don’t We Spend More Money at Home? Breaking Down False Notions About U.S. Foreign Aid
Whenever I go to the Hill to advocate for continued and, more importantly, increased funding for foreign aid I always hear from staffers that their constituents perpetually call their congressperson’s or senator’s office telling them to stop spending money in other countries and use that money at home. What these concerned citizens and so many…
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USAID Launches New Global Development Lab
Exactly how does the global community end poverty by 2030? According to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), it’s by working together. Today marks the official launch of USAID’s Global Development Lab, a new initiative that uses science and technology to improve global health and development outcomes around the world. Utilizing data and analytics USAID is…
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[Photos] Walking Through a Medical Supplies Warehouse in Zambia
In Zambia there is one central location where over 600 medicines are stored for distribution throughout the country. I was recently in Zambia as a guest of Malaria No More and its new campaign, Power of One that ensures that with a small $1 donation a Zambian child will receive a full course of malaria treatment and…
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Featured Infographic of the Week: Saving Mothers at Birth
While maternal mortality has been halved since 1990 low and middle income countries still have a long way to go in order to see improved maternal mortality numbers. Sub-Saharan Africa still ranks highest in maternal mortality. For example, some of the highest maternal death rates are seen in Chad with 1 in 15 women dying…
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Meeting Key US Players in Zambia’s National Health #ZambiaHealth
After spending nearly a week and a half in Zambia during the second half of July with nine other new media journalists we concluded our final day with an official visit to the United States Embassy in Lusaka. We met with representatives from USAID, PEPFAR, the Peace Corps, and the CDC. We also met with…
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Social Good Moms Write for USAID, Feed the Future
Storify by Social Good Moms Fri, Jun 14 2013 13:11:24 Social Good Moms Write for USAID, Feed the Future We are so happy to see Social Good Moms and Global Team of 200 members published by USAID and Feed the Future this week in a nutrition series. Read Julia Gibson‘s and Jennifer Barbour‘s great posts.…
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Nutrition on the Global Agenda
On Monday GAIN and Future Fortified hosted the #NutritionHangout on Google+ with ONE, USAID, and 1,000 Days. The hangout started with Tom Hart, US Executive Director of ONE presenting over 100,000 signatures of a recent nutrition campaign ONE held with its members to Dr. Raj Shah, USAID Administrator. ONE members signed the petition to put child…
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Key Tweets From the Global Newborn Health Conference
Today marks the start of the first ever Global Newborn Health Conference. Thus far conference-goers have heard opening remarks from high level executives at the World Health Organization, Save the Children, UNICEF, MCHIP, USAID, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Below are key tweets from the early morning session as well as those of…
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Join the Global Conversation About Newborn Health #Newborn2013
From April 15 – 18, 2013 the first global conference on newborn health, the Global Newborn Health Conference, will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa. On the agenda, maternal and newborn health experts, researchers, and NGOs will collaborate on innovative ways to scale high-impact interventions that will save more newborn lives globally ahead of the…
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Day 2 Social Media Highlights from India’s Child Survival Summit #C2AIndia
If you missed our piece about Day 1 of India’s Child Survival Summit on the Gates Foundation blog, Impatient Optimists, you can read it at The Most Important Conversation This Week: India on the Survival of its Children. You might recall our coverage of the Child Survival Summit that was held in Washington, DC last…
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A Woman’s Right to Basic Family Planning and Why It is Important
There is a worldwide problem facing women: the lack of access to and education about family planning. What makes this issue so compelling and absolutely important to me as a mother is access to contraceptives in developing countries will save the lives of mothers and babies. Period. I cannot imagine not being able to choose…
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Why Reaching the Age of Five in Developing Countries is Critical to Survival
Every year over seven million children in developing countries die before the critical age of five. Research shows that once children reach the age of five they have an increased chance of surviving through adulthood, but there are several challenges they must overcome first. This April, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), along with key…
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Do Women In Developing Nations Want Mobile Phones?
The answer to this question is yes, but the practical solutions to arm 150 million women in developing nations with a mobile phone isn’t as easy as it seems from the outset, even though the market is vast and ripe for technology. On a conference call last week with USAID‘s Chief Innovation Officer, Maura O’Neill,…