Global Health Progress

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The UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly will convene a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals. Although significant progress has been made, this meeting aims to help accelerate implementation and follow-through so that the Goals can be met by 2015.

Developing next-generation drugs will require new funding of $470 million for the next 5 years
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods. Better information about the prevalence and location of diseases will help national and international health organizations around the world treat and control these diseases.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is taking a move to address challenges affecting healthcare delivery in Uganda. These include maternal and child health, poor family planning, infectious disease, inadequate infrastructure development and poor health-seeking behaviour. The challenges were revealed by the Uganda Service Provision Assessment (USPA) 2007 survey report.

Anthony Dunnett founded International Health Partners as a way to donate drugs to provide acute care to regions suffering from humanitarian disasters, writes Andrew Jack. He soon discovered there was as great a need to provide support for more structural chronic treatment to many entire countries. In the past three years, his fledgling UK-based charity has channelled drugs and other medical supplies given by 80 companies to treat more than 4m patients. Now it is starting to respond to the need to tackle longer term underlying health problems.

A UN summit called to rev up the war on global poverty raised a total of roughly 16 billion dollars, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said here Thursday. “We have full commitment from many countries in pledges to help the world’s poor, around the 16 billion dollars mark,” he told reporters at the close of the day-long summit called to review implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Bill Gates announced today that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $168.7 million to PATH for its Malaria Vaccine Initiative to develop vaccines for malaria-a disease that kills thousands of African children every day.

It is 30 years since the Alma Ata Declaration on primary health care, (PHC). Beginning today, health experts will convene in Kampala to discuss Uganda’s progress in PHC. Dr. Herman Kyabaggu, one of the conference organisers, speaks to Irene Nabusoba about the evolution of PHC and what the conference is about.

September 24-26, 2008
New York, NY

The Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting convenes a diverse group of approximately 1,000 world leaders to examine today’s most pressing global challenges and transform that awareness into tangible commitments to action.
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GHP was a sponsor of the Africa America Institute (AAI) 24th Annual Awards Gala, congratulating H.E. Armando Emílio Guebuza, President of Mozambique, who accepted the AAI African National Achievement Award on behalf of the people of Mozambique in the evening’s program.
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