The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, sat down with IRIN/PlusNews at the launch of the organization’s 2010 report, where he answered some hard questions on what may be a turning point in HIV/AIDS funding.
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Africa: Straight Talk with Global Fund Director Michel Kazatchkine
Last week, the US National Academy of Sciences published a study suggesting that genetically modified mosquitoes could help fight dengue fever. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2.5 billion people in more than 100 countries are at risk of dengue fever. An estimated 50 to 100 million cases occur annually, resulting in 22,000 deaths, most of which are children.
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Africa: Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Could Help Fight Dengue Fever
After the polio virus re-emerged in Sudan two years ago, nine million children are being vaccinated in a project run by the Ministry of Health, with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO).
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Sudan: Bid to Wipe Out Polio Virus
Anthem Blue Cross, California’s largest for-profit health insurer, expressed confidence that its new premiums would pass state scrutiny even as it delayed the increase.
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Insurer Delays Increase for California Customers
The society has met resistance to its plans to sell some of the historic properties in Jacksonville as a way to prevent the organization’s own economic collapse.
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Jacksonville Journal: Southern Oregon Historical Society Looks to the Past for a Future
The US-based NGO International Medical Corps (IMC) has evacuated 13 of its staff from the northeast of the Central African Republic following two incidents in which the organization lost three vehicles to an armed group.
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Central African Republic: Aid Workers Evacuated From North
Aid agencies will soon be able to learn about the onset of a drought two to three weeks after it starts, giving them a heads-up to plan relief, a senior World Meteorological Organization (WMO) official announced at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen.
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Africa: An Early Warning System for Droughts
The antipoverty group Acorn has not received direct federal grants since 2002, but some federal money has made its way to the organization or its affiliates.
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Audit Finds Acorn Received Some Federal Grant Money Through Its Affiliates
Officials from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) are at work in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago of Cape Verde to help local authorities battle the country’s first reported epidemic of dengue fever.
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Cape Verde: UN Agency Helps Officials in Country Tackle Outbreak of Dengue Fever
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it has transferred USD 336 million to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to pay for the provision of more than 50 million long-lasting insecticidal nets in the next few months. Together, this will amount to a 2/3 increase of the number of bed nets in Africa through Global Fund supported programmes.
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Africa: Global Fund to Help Put 50 Million More Bed Nets in African Homes