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CGD in the News
August 06, 2014
“[Power Africa] was always designed as something that the administration could do without Congress,” said Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. It makes sense in the short term as a way to get it off the ground, Moss said.
“I think it was a long-term mista...
October 28, 2010
By Mario Raviglione, Director, Stop TB, WHO
In less than six months, WHO will issue a clear call for action to halt the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). WHO has adopted Combating Antimicrobial Resistance as the theme for World Health Day 2011, held annually on 7 April. World Health Day...
August 25, 2010
Since most readers of this newsletter are dedicated advocates of a stronger global response to drug resistance, you are well aware that efforts to curb resistance thus far have fallen woefully short. Across the spectrum – from R&D to supply chain, to patient adherence to drug resistance surv...
January 15, 2010
The increased availability of life-saving medicines worldwide is having a serious unintended side-effect: a wide array of diseases -- from malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS to pneumonia and acute diarrhea -- is becoming resistant to the drugs we rely on to overcome them. To address this critical challenge, ...
December 16, 2009
The DRWG’s consultation draft report proposes eight recommendations for global action on drug resistance. We will continue refining these recommendations so that the final report prioritizes the most effective and feasible actions for global organizations to take against drug resistance. To do th...
November 20, 2009
By Robert J. Guidos, JD, Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relations
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Finally, there is some good news to report on the global antimicrobial resistance policy front. Earlier this month, at a United States (U.S.) and European Union (EU) sum...
July 24, 2009
by DRWG members Andrew Ramsay and Emma Back
The work of the CGD Drug Resistance Working Group has been focused on some of the major diseases of poverty – such as TB, malaria, pneumonia and cholera – that impact so disastrously upon the human and economic development of poorer countries. In its ...
June 19, 2009
By Kammerle Schneider & Laurie Garrett, Council on Foreign Relations
The same commercial animal farms that provided the breeding grounds for the novel H1N1 A virus that caused the current “Swine Flu” pandemic are home to another dangerous threat to human health: antibiotic resistance.
In the Unite...