Global Health News
May 2007
Henrietta Holsman Fore Designated Acting Administrator of USAID
President George W. Bush announced his intention to nominate Henrietta Holsman Fore to serve as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The President also designated Ms. Fore to be the Acting Administrator.
While she serves in these acting capacities, she remains Under Secretary of State for Management, a position she has held since August 2005. Prior to this, she served as 37th Director of the United States Mint at the Department of the Treasury. Earlier in her career, she served as Assistant Administrator for Private Enterprise and subsequently Assistant Administrator for Asia at USAID.
Dr. Kent R. Hill Testifies on USAID Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Programs
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| Source: © 2005 Esther Braud, Courtesy of Photoshare |
Read the statement of Dr. Kent R. Hill, USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Heath, before the Senate Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations on “Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Programs.”
“Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning are often seen as separate and distinct – vertical and disconnected. But, USAID is working to integrate our programming to the fullest extent possible, an approach, which increases the affordability and sustainability of our global efforts to tackle these important public health challenges,” Dr. Kent R. Hill, in his testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations.
No Product, No Program: A Practical Guide to Improving Product Availability
USAID's DELIVER Project released Contraceptive Security: Practical Experience in Improving Global, Regional, National, and Local Product Availability [PDF, 2.2MB], a useful tool for repositioning family planning programs. Providing both strategic overviews of what has and what has not worked in contraceptive security (CS), the publication details what countries and stakeholders should be doing and offers some guidance on how to plan and implement CS activities.
This work suggests that 10 areas should be addressed to both attain and maintain contraceptive security, including:
- Policies to encourage public and private provision of contraceptives
- Adoption and coordination of diversified funding mechanisms
- Equity in and access to service delivery
For more information on contraceptive security, please visit the USAID.gov, DELIVER Project and Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Web sites.
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USAID's Strategic Response to Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB)
A new strain of tuberculosis (TB), called extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), is on the rise and has been confirmed in 37 countries, representing all regions of the world, including the United States. The strain, resistant to the most powerful first and second line drugs available, represents a threat to recent achievements in TB control.
New Information on USAID's Avian Influenza Activities
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| Source: Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner/USAID |
USAID, in close collaboration with the Departments of State, Agriculture, Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, is a critical partner in efforts to prevent this lethal virus from spreading in animals and to reduce the possibility of it also becoming a human contagion. Animal outbreaks have been reported in 59 countries, and 12 countries have confirmed a total of 291 human cases since 2003. Of those cases, 59 percent have been fatal.
To date, USAID has committed a total of $191,650,000 for avian influenza activities. Detailed reviews of the three regions (Asia and the Near East, Europe and Eurasia, and Africa) that have received substantial funding for avian influenza are now available.
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