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World Summit On Food Security Wraps Up The U.N. World Summit on Food Security ended Wednesday in Rome with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) head Jacques Diouf calling for the global community to shift the fight against global hunger from "words to action," Agence France-Press reports. ...more	20 Nov 2009
U.S. To Consider Purchasing Some Food Aid Locally, Acting USAID Head Says At World Food Summit The U.S. is interested in potentially using more locally-produced food aid rather than U.S. grown food as a way to expand investment in agricultural development in the developing world, said Alonzo Fulgham, acting head USAID, "on the sidelines of a World Food Summit in Rome" on Tuesday, Reuters reports. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Also In Global Health News: Sleeping Sickness; Aid For Philippines; U.S., China In Africa; Polio Eradication In Afghanistan; Ethiopia Famine Lancet Infectious Diseases Examines Hold-Ups In Implementation Of Sleeping Sickness Therapy ...more	19 Nov 2009
World Food Programme Calls For Citizen Action To Feed The One Billion Hungry At a time when funds to feed the hungry are hard to come by, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urged ordinary people to put food on the table of the world's hungry by supporting the "Billion for a Billion" online campaign. "The challenge of feeding a billion people may seem huge, but now you can fill the cup of a hungry child with a simple click of a mouse," said Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of WFP. ...more	19 Nov 2009
American Red Cross Launches "Gifts That Save The Day" Holiday Campaign Many people are cutting back on gift-buying, parties and travel this holiday season, but support for charitable giving remains strong as people believe it is more important this year to give to charities because of the economy, according to a new national survey for the American Red Cross. ...more	19 Nov 2009
FAO Head 'Not Satisfied' With Omission Of Hunger Eradication Deadline From Summit Declaration Jacques Diouf, head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "is not satisfied" that the World Summit on Food Security's final declaration excludes "exact targets to reduce hunger," the BBC reports. Diouf "said he was not in the room when negotiators finalised the statement. But he said he regretted the absence of a deadline for the total eradication of world hunger," according to the BBC. ...more	18 Nov 2009
Senate Committee To Markup Foreign Aid Reform Bill The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to "mark up the Kerry-Lugar foreign aid reform bill Tuesday," Foreign Policy's blog, "The Cable" reports. ...more	18 Nov 2009
Statement By WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran On The World Food Summit And Feeding The Hungry Billion As delegates at the World Summit on Food Security discuss urgent measures to counter the forward march of hunger, we must mobilise all world citizens - not just global leaders -to feed the more than one billion hungry people around the world. Today, almost one in every six people on earth wakes up not knowing whether they will have enough to eat. ...more	18 Nov 2009
Leaders Conclude Second Africa Water Week African leaders concluded the Second Africa Water Week on Friday, with an appeal for "concrete actions to meet the water and sanitation needs in the continent," Xinhua reports. ...more	17 Nov 2009
Opinions: Health System Funding; Malnutrition Assistance; Social Dimension Of HIV Health System Funding Can Address 'Silent Killers' "For too long, global health funding has gone to diseases like AIDS with the most vocal lobby groups and not to the diseases with the greatest need," Philip Stevens, a senior fellow at International Policy Network, writes in a Business Daily opinion piece. ...more	17 Nov 2009
News Outlets Examine USAID Administrator Nomination PBS' Online NewsHour explores the recent nomination of Rajiv Shah as USAID administrator and the outlook for the agency. "While Shah still needs to be confirmed by the Senate, there has been high anticipation for a successor to be named. ...more	16 Nov 2009
Health Policy Research Round Up - Medicare And Massachusetts Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The Secrets of Massachusetts' Success - "By the summer of 2008, less than two years after Massachusetts' health reform law became effective, only 2.6 percent of state residents were uninsured - the lowest proportion ever recorded for any state. ...more	16 Nov 2009
Potential Success Of U.N. World Food Summit Questioned Next week's World Food Summit in Rome "is not likely to make more than token headway in the fight against hunger, with leaders merely pledging to boost aid to poor countries but setting no targets or deadlines for action," Reuters/New York Times reports. ...more	16 Nov 2009
Recent Releases In Global Health Kaiser Family Foundation Looks At Views On The U.S. Role In Global Health As a follow-up to a survey conducted in May 2009, this poll examines Americans' attitudes toward U.S. global health investments and priorities. ...more	16 Nov 2009
Food Summit Draft Declaration Omits Hunger Eradication Deadline, Aid Commitment "A declaration to be made at next week's world food summit in Rome will not mention a target to eradicate hunger by 2025 nor a commitment to spend $44 billion a year in agricultural aid, according to a final draft," Reuters reports (Aloisi, 11/12). Those items "were the main points of conflict in behind-the-scenes talks before the summit. ...more	13 Nov 2009
Also In Global Health News: Funding Shortfall In Philippines; WHO-Approved ARV Bloomberg Examines Aid Shortfall In Philippines; Clinton Commits Additional $5.2M During Visit Bloomberg examines the U.N.'s continued appeal for aid for the people of the Philippines "after three tropical cyclones left almost 1,000 people dead" and an estimated 1.7 million people displaced or living in flooded areas. ...more	13 Nov 2009
Washington Independent Looks At Response To Newly Nominated USAID Head The Washington Independent examines the development community's response to the nomination of Rajiv Shah for USAID administrator. According to the publication, "some USAID program managers and contractors ... aren't happy. In a series of [anonymous] emails ... ...more	13 Nov 2009
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Calls For Immediate Action To Tackle Food Shortages In Areas Of Southern Sudan UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Hilde F. Johnson, urged for more action to be taken in Southern Sudan to stop severe food shortages in parts of the country escalating into a worse crisis. "Now is the time to act. Everybody needs to do their best to stop this humanitarian emergency, which is already affecting 1.5 million people across Southern Sudan," said Hilde Johnson, UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, after a visit to the region. ...more	13 Nov 2009
Malnutrition Stunts 200 Million Children Under 5, Future Generations In Jeopardy Says UNICEF A new report from UNICEF suggests that malnutrition has stunted nearly 200 million children under 5 living in poor countries and that future generations are in jeopardy unless urgent efforts are made to tackle undernutrition. The UNICEF report Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition was released on Wednesday and says that undernutrition is linked to nearly a third of all deaths in the under-5s. ...more	13 Nov 2009
Also In Global Health News: RUTF; Global Hunger; Preventing Natural Disasters; El Salvador Floods IRIN Examines Plumpy'Nut's Role In RUTF Market IRIN examines how a new ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) from Tabatchnick Fine Foods could challenge the "12-year dominance" of Plumpy'nut. "The patents for Plumpy'nut â�¦ are owned by Nutriset, a French family-run business, and the Institute of Research for Development, a French public research institute. ...more	12 Nov 2009
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