Families USA's Global Health Initiative advocates for U.S. policies that advance global health research, with the goal of developing medical technologies to improve global health.
September 23, 2008
In This Issue:
Policy Updates
1. Comprehensive TB Elimination Act
News and Reports
2. NIH Fogarty International Center: Global Health Matters
3. Malaria: Counting Bites
4. Malaria Campaigners Hopeful on Drugs Pricing Deal
5. Fighting Disease in the Name of Skeeter Beaters
6. Clinical Trial for New Tuberculosis Vaccine
7. Nassau Probes Third Possible Death from West Nile
Events
8. China’s Capacity to Manage Infectious Diseases and Its Global Implications
9. AIDS Vaccine 2008 Conference
10. Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) Fall 2008 Conference
11. 48th ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting
Policy Updates
1. Comprehensive TB Elimination Act
The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously passed the Comprehensive TB Elimination Act on September 17th. It is likely that the bill will be considered by the full House and Senate chambers within a week or so.
Urge your Representatives and Senators to vote in favor of this important legislation, which contains crucial measures for TB control in the United States, including the development of badly needed new medical tools, such as improved diagnostics, drugs, and a vaccine.
News and Reports
2. NIH Fogarty International Center: Global Health Matters Newsletter
Global Health Matters (John E. Fogarty International Center, July-August 2008)
Read the most recent issue of the Fogarty Center Newsletter with highlights from flu policy to information technology. Find out more about forty years of the center’s achievements and its future challenges.
To read the report, click here.
3. Malaria: Counting Bites
Malaria: Counting Bites (The Economist, September 18, 2008)
“The number of malaria cases is down sharply, for reasons good and bad.”
To read the article, click here.
To read the WHO World Malaria Report 2008, click here.
4. Malaria Campaigners Hopeful on Drugs Pricing Deal
Malaria Campaigners Hopeful on Drugs Pricing Deal (Reuters, September 9, 2008)
“We are seeing the market a lot more clearly now,” said Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, “Some firms were complaining that they had produced too much of these medicines. We’re hoping an agreement will enable us to regulate the flow better so that everyone benefits.”
To read the article, click here.
5. Fighting Disease in the Name of Skeeter Beaters
Fighting Disease in the Name of Skeeter Beaters (The New York Times, September 16, 2008)
“In the South Pacific during World War II, and particularly in the six months of fighting for control of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands in 1942 and 1943, malaria put far more marines out of action than Japanese fire did.”
To read the article describing their work, click here.
6. Clinical Trial for New Tuberculosis Vaccine
Clinical Trial for New Tuberculosis Vaccine (Science Daily, September 12, 2008)
“For the first time in 80 years, a very promising live tuberculosis vaccine has reached the clinical trial stage in Germany.”
To read the article, click here.
7. Nassau Probes Third Possible Death from West Nile
Nassau Probes Third Possible Death from West Nile (Newsday.com, September 10, 2008)
Illustrated in the spread of West Nile virus across the United States, global health is domestic health. “A third possible death from West Nile virus is under investigation, Nassau County health officials said…If confirmed, [this] death would mark the highest number of human deaths in the county since they started tracking the virus in 1999, when West Nile first appeared in New York—and the country.”
To read the article, click here.
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8. China’s Capacity to Manage Infectious Diseases and Its Global Implications
Date: October 6, 2008
Location: CSIS Conference Center B1A-B
Time: 8:30am to 3:00pm
For more information click here.
9. AIDS Vaccine 2008 Conference
Date: October 13-16, 2008
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
For more information click here.
10. Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) Fall 2008 Conference
Date: October 17-19, 2008
Location: University of California, Berkeley
For more information click here.
11. 48th ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting
Date: October 25-28, 2008
Location: Washington, DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center
For more information click here.
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