Fogarty/NIH Presents: Race Against Time-Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World and former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Tuesday, May 6
11:30AM to 12:30PM
Masur Auditorium, Clinical Center (Building 10)
NIH, Bethesda, MD
Reception will follow
To mark its 40th anniversary, Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health is presenting a series of Scholars in Residence throughout the year. Please join Fogarty for its first guest lecturer, Stephen Lewis.
For more information about the event, please click here.
For more information about Mr. Lewis and his work, please visit: www.aids-freeworld.org
World Malaria Day 2008
April 25 was the first World Malaria Day.
It’s a day to make a renewed commitment to rid the world of this devastating disease. For the first time ever, people from around the globe came together to recognize that malaria is truly "a disease without borders," and that together we can fight it.
Families USA calls on global health advocates to remember that while we have critical tools to help in that fight-bed nets, insecticides, and drug treatments-we can’t rest there. Malaria’s outwitted us time and again. To win the fight, we’ll have to continually come up with new strategies and tools, and that requires research. An investment in malaria research is an investment in our own health, and the world's health too.
What's needed to fight Malaria?
Read A Malaria Community Statement, with contributions by Families USA Global Health Initiative, which calls on Congress to commit to specific leadership steps in the fight against malaria.
Interested in learning more?
Test your knowledge about malaria by taking our short quiz.
Have some fun for a good cause?
You can do something simple to help now just by playing a game. The U.N. Foundation and Nothing But Nets have created a new game called Deliver the Net. Click here to play the game, and a bed net will be delivered on your behalf.
“Infectious Disease Threats: What’s Next?”
Do you remember SARS? Heard of the West Nile Virus? Haven’t yet heard of Chikungunya or the Nipah Virus? These are infectious diseases that have their origins elsewhere. Some, like SARS and West Nile Virus, have traveled here. Others haven’t, yet.
There are things that we can do—like increasing disease surveillance funding and acting quickly when threats arise—to keep emerging diseases in check.
Congressional Briefing, April 16
Families USA Global Health Initiative hosted a Congressional Briefing on April 16, 2008. Dr. Ali Khan (CDC) and Dr. Peter Daszak (Consortium for Conservation Medicine) shared their experiences and knowledge of infectious disease threats and their work in addressing them. Learn more about the fascinating topics of emerging infectious diseases and how they travel the globe through their presentations.
Advocating for more funding for CDC’s global health work can help keep us—and the rest of the world—safe from emerging diseases. Click here to learn more and join us in advocating for more global health research funding.
Tell us YOUR global health story!
Have you lived or worked in a developing country? Have you witnessed the hardships and struggles of communities living with illness and without treatment? Or perhaps you fell ill while abroad? Whatever your global health story is, we want to know it. Click here to tell us your story.
President’s Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009
The President's recently released 2009 budget proposal would worsen an already dire budget situation, further compromising the ability of NIH and the CDC to carry out their missions. President Bush’s proposed budget would not enable NIH funding to keep up with inflation, while the CDC’s budget would be slashed by $378 million. These funding cuts would undermine U.S. efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and other diseases, and they put Americans’ health at risk. Read Families USA’s press statement.
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