MAIN NEWS ITEMS
- Global Health Frontiers: Emerging Market Opportunities to Serve the Poor
- How Are You Using Millions Saved?
- The Future of UNAIDS A New Working Group Invites Your Comments
- Drug Resistance Working Group Posts Characterization Paper
- Global Health Advice for the Next U.S. President
- Call for Participants: Pay for Performance in Health Workshop Asia Region
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MAIN NEWS ITEMS
Global Health Frontiers: Emerging Market Opportunities to Serve the Poor
The emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are major growth markets for pharmaceuticals, and multinational and generic firms are actively exploring how best to address these new opportunities. The disease burden in these countries is shifting from infectious, communicable diseases to chronic, non-communicable ones. CGD initiated the Global Health Frontiers Project to analyze these developments and assess how specific policy actions might take advantage of these forces to improve health outcomes for poor people.
How Are You Using Millions Saved?
With record numbers of students enrolled in global health and development classes, Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health is being adopted in universities across the country. We are interested in learning from teachers and students about classroom use of Millions Saved. If you are using Millions Saved in a course, please send a quick note (just by replying to this e-mail) indicating the institution, course title and professor. We would also appreciate any information about how the content is being used -- as a primary or secondary text, for occasional reading, or in another way. Suggestions for improvement in the content or the website are welcome!
The Future of UNAIDS A New Working Group Invites Your Comments
The departure of the founding director of UNAIDS provides an opening to re-think the role of an unusual international organization. A new working group headed by CGD vice president Ruth Levine and Ngaire Woods, director of the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford, will offer recommendations on the future of an entity with a curious mandate and an uneven record. Learn more about the working group, read the paper, and send us your comments on the future of UNAIDS, starting with this blog posting!
Drug Resistance Working Group Posts Characterization Paper
A new background paper on Mapping Factors that Drive Drug Resistance (with a Focus on Resource-Limited Settings): A First Step Towards Better Informed Policy outlines the magnitude of drug resistance against AIDS, malaria, TB and other bacterial infections. It explains how resistance is made worse by weak health systems, inappropriate behavior by doctors and patients, and inadequate drug and other technology. Based on this and other background analyses, the Drug Resistance Working Group is developing preliminary recommendations for a report to be issued in 2009. Sign up for the monthly Drug Resistance E-newsletter.
Global Health Advice for the Next U.S. President
At a September 18 event on Capitol Hill, CGD Vice President Ruth Levine challenged the next administration not only to "walk, chew gum AND think", all at the same time, but to lead the world in advancing global health. She shows how with her brief and chapter in CGD's new book, The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President. In a separate chapter and brief, CGD senior fellow Mead Over discusses "Opportunities for Presidential Leadership on AIDS: From an Emergency Planto a Sustainable Policy".
Call for Participants: Pay for Performance in Health Workshop Asia Region
An upcoming workshop on Pay for Performance in Health will be held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India from January 19-23, 2009, sponsored by USAID, AUSAID, the Center for Global Development, Norad and the World Bank. This workshop will support 16 teams from Asian countries to develop country-specific approaches using Pay for Performance. Applications will be received until October 29, 2008; apply by completing the online application form or requesting a form through Ellie Brown at ellie_brown@abtassoc.com. Applicants will be informed of the decision by November 21, 2008. To learn more about Pay for Performance, check out the work of CGD's Performance Based Incentives Working Group.
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Global Health Policy Blog
Join the global health policy conversation by sharing your comments on any of the posts below!
- UNAIDS: preparing for a new phase, Ruth Levine
- Call for participants, Pay for Performance in Health workshop- Asia region, Ruth Levine
- When domestic meets global: the U.S. response to HIV at home and abroad, Nandini Oomman
- Federal employee of the year: Richard Greene USAID Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition, Ruth Levine
- Washington Post story suggests strong supply of volunteers for proposed Global Health Corps, Mead Over
- AMFm: not just a radio anymore, Rachel Nugent
- Donor officials discuss HIV/AIDS Monitor report on health systems at the 2008 International AIDS Conference, David Wendt
- The world at 7 billion: global demographic trends in the first decade of the 21st century, Rachel Nugent
- Simon Mphuka, Nandini Oomman
- Le raison de resistance: substandard TB drugs found in South Africa, Scott Kniaz
- The world tuberculosis cup: score one for global health innovation, Kristie Latulippe
- New round in tug-of-war on nurse migrants, Rachel Nugent
- AIDS 2008 in Mexico City: new focus on high risk behavior in all countries , Mead Over
- The HIV/AIDS Monitor team, Mead and Ruth comment on the PEPFAR Reauthorization:
- PEPFAR reauthorization: where did all the evidence go?
- PEPFAR reauthorization II: creating work for ourselves
- PEPFAR reauthorization III: U.S. funding is life or death for 1.73 million and counting
- PEPFAR Reauthorization IV: target formula may unintentionally prevent improvements in PEPFAR implementation
- PEPFAR Reauthorization V: Science = Life
- G-8 Haiku, Ruth Levine
- HIV/AIDS Funding and Health Systems: How do AIDS donors interact with national health systems?, Steve Rosenzweig
- Beyond Population: Everybody Counts in Development, Demographics and Development Lecture Series Kick-Off, by Joel Cohen. September 15
- White House and the World Launch on Capitol Hill, September 18
- Seizing the Opportunity on AIDS and Health Systems, HIV/AIDS Monitor in Mexico City, August 6
Check our calendar for forthcoming events!
CGD Global Health Team in the Media
- Award-Winning Photos Highlight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Voice of America, 10/16/2008, Rachel Nugent on drug resistance)
- Price of Inoculation (The Guardian Weekly, 9/11/2008, Ruth Levine on AMCs)
- The Path of Least Resistance (Foreign Policy Magazine, August/September 2008, Rachel Nugent on drug resistance)
- The Price of Being Well (The Economist, 08/28/2008, Ruth Levine on WHO report)
- On Immigration, It's the Economy, Stupid (Washington Post, 08/08/2008, Michael Clemens on workers' wages )
- Obama vs. McCain on Global Health (The Lancet, 08/16/2008, Ruth Levine on the presidential candidates' global health policies)
- AFRICA: Donor AIDS Money Weakening Health Systems (Reuters AlertNet, 08/15/2008, HIV/AIDS Monitor)
- The Wrong Way to Fight AIDS (International Herald Tribune, 07/30/2008, Mead Over on AIDS treatment)
- AIDS Funding Binds Longevity of Millions to U.S. (Washington Post, 07/28/2008, Mead Over on PEPFAR legislation)
- The Great Funding Surge (Science Magazine, 07/25/2008, Nandini Oomman on donor spending to fight HIV/AIDS in developing countries)
- Coburn Puts Hold on HIV/AIDS Bill (Politico, 06/11/2008, Mead Over on the PEPFAR reauthorization bill)
- Getting the Message (The Economist, 06/05/2008, Mead Over on U.S. foreign aid for HIV/AIDS)