What are the consequences of inadequate or broken health delivery systems in developing countries? That might seem like a difficult question to answer, at least with any specificity. But Rajeev Venkayya, director for global health delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, tried his best to quantify the impact of deficient health infrastructures, […]
The House and Senate are moving forward on a budget that could deal a devastating blow to global health programs. But there is still time to shape the package, especially in the Senate. Last week, the Senate Budget Committee approved a plan to allocate $49.8 billion for the International Affairs Budget, the source of funding […]
HIV
Since the president’s Feb. 5 State of the Union address pledge to end transmissions of HIV in the United States in the next 10 years, and […]
Tuberculosis
Releasing the most recent domestic and global data on tuberculosis incidence in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
Research & Development
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun […]
Policy
The following is a guest post by Emily Weaver, PhD, of MEASURE Evaluation Health projects and donors in low-resource countries increasingly aim to leverage existing data […]