All Entries in the "Global Health" Category
Polio Outbreak In Kenya: A Threat To Global Eradication
A baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. The country has one of the lowest immunization rates in the world. Ben Curtis/AP Kenya has recorded its first case of polio in two years, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. A 4-month-old girl came down with paralysis on [...]
Valerie Jarrett on Ending HIV/AIDS in the United States
Last month, fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys introduced EMPOWERED, an ongoing public information campaign to reach women in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. At the launch event in Washington, D.C. at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett spoke both personally and professionally about how this disease affects us [...]
YOUNG LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The National AIDS Memorial Grove Young Leaders Scholarship Program (YLSP) recognizes, supports and encourages the educational efforts of young people committed to active roles of public service and leadership in the struggle against HIV/AIDS. YLSP is open to current high school seniors and college undergraduates who have demonstrated an active commitment to fighting AIDS (for [...]
Program addresses shortage of healthcare professionals in less developed countries
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2013 – The Peace Corps today will begin accepting applications from healthcare professionals interested in serving as medical or nursing educators in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda as part of the Global Health Service Partnership program. Volunteers will serve one-year assignments starting July 2014 teaching clinical skills to medical and nursing students [...]
New discovery may be step toward ending malaria
Worldwide elimination of malaria would save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). But eradication remains elusive, because the parasite that causes the disease can evolve to withstand the effects of new malaria drugs and become drug-resistant. Researchers, however, now believe they have discovered a way to track [...]
How African doctors can cure medical ‘brain drain’
Editor’s note: Born in Ghana, Kofi Boahene is associate professor of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, facial plastics and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. On a recent medical volunteer trip I was introduced to an elderly woman on the surgical wards. She had a growing tumor that had deformed her face and was threatening her [...]
Mobile Xhosa translator helps the medicine go down
It’s a common problem healthcare practitioners face in a multilingual society: how to translate medical questions and ailments in another language accurately enough to provide correct diagnosis and treatment. And it’s one sixth-year medical student and president of SHAWCO Health Saadiq Moolla faced head-on when treating isiXhosa-speaking patients at SHAWCO’s mobile clinics. His Mobile Xhosa [...]
Geographic Technology Helps Put Ethiopia on Map of Global Health Success
In just six years, DKT Ethiopia has transformed its system for tracking contraceptive sales from pins and pencils to computers and satellites and, in the process, helped create a family planning and HIV prevention success story in the Horn of Africa. DKT Ethiopia is an affiliate of DKT International, a non-profit organization that seeks to provide couples [...]
Somalia Launching New Five-In-One Child Vaccines
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Two dozen babies sat on the laps of their mothers, who dressed in a rainbow of headscarves at the Medina Maternal Child Health Center. They are among Somalia’s luckiest – the first to receive a new vaccine that protects against five dangerous diseases. With more regions of Somalia, including the capital Mogadishu, [...]
Tracking global health funding on Capitol Hill
Stale, cool air pushed through 2172, the Foreign Affairs Committee room in the Rayburn building of the House of Representatives. Suited congressional leaders trickled into the cavernous room from separate doors on either side of the elevated dais, Republicans on the left and Democrats on the right, and ambled to their assigned, ranked seats. Dozens [...]
