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2010

• Pakistan Flood Response: Health in Focus - 08/20/10
  More than 17 million people have been affected by the floods from unprecedented monsoon rains in Pakistan. The U.S. Government is working in support of the Government of Pakistan - led by the National Disaster Management Authority - to provide assistance to those who have lost their homes and livelihoods.

2009

• Development Partners Tackle Key Issues Surrounding Nutrition and Food Security at United Nations General Assembly - 09/22/09
  USAID and the World Bank co-hosted "A Call to Action on Nutrition" to address urgent global challenges related to nutrition and food security at the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2009.
  
  
• Global Child Mortality Reaches Record Low - 09/10/09
  UNICEF announced that the estimated number of deaths among children under age 5 fell to 8.8 million in 2008.  The announcement – based on annual compilations of the best available data by experts at UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations Population Division – marks the first time ever that annual child deaths have fallen below 9 million.
  
  
• Expanding Access to Injectable Contraceptives – 09/09
  A technical consultation, co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), USAID, and Family Health International (FHI), was held June 15–17, 2009, at the WHO in Geneva to review the evidence and programmatic experience for community-based provision of injectable contraceptives.
  
  
• Senegal’s Family Planning Campaign Sheds Light on Social and Economic Consequences of Population Growth – 07/08/09
  The campaign, with the theme of "Family Planning – a Priority for the Reduction of Maternal and Infant Mortality,” seeks to reposition family planning and effective birth spacing as the key intervention toward the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5.
  
  
• Introduction of Injectable Contraceptive Demonstrates Successful Public-Private Partnership – 07/09
  As part of the National Family Planning Campaign, USAID/Senegal, and Pfizer West Africa, held a launch for the introduction of the pre-filled injectable contraceptive Depo-provera for use in the private pharmaceutical sector.
  
  
• USAID Supports the Integration of Family Planning and HIV Care and Treatment Services – 06/09
  Family Health International (FHI) and partners are working with Kenya’s Ministry of Health (MOH) to incorporate the family planning needs of women with HIV into a new national strategy for integrating reproductive health and HIV care and treatment services.
  
  
• Family Planning Presentation Sparks Discussion – 05/01/09
  On April 24th,2009, Peter Bodde , the U.S. Ambassador of Malawi, hosted a presentation on “The Effects of Rapid Population Growth on Development in Malawi” by retired senior Foreign Service Officer, Margaret Neuse. The presentation highlighted how improved availability and use of family planning services can positively influence agriculture, education, and health sectors.
  
  
• Reproductive Health Education Tool Respects and Relates to Local Traditions – 05/05/09
  To engage the mostly Somali women and men living in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp on sexual health, USAID supported ESD, Pathfinder's development of a new reproductive health outreach tool [PDF, 4.7MB], working with some of the refugees who live in the camps. The result is an educational flip-chart comprised of 12 water-color drawings that portray the clothing, customs, behaviors and physical geography familiar to the majority of refugees in the Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps.

2008

• New Population, Health, and Environment Alliance - Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding – 10/08/08
  On October 8, 2008, USAID, Johnson & Johnson, and World Wildlife Fund formed the first major global development alliance to focus on an integrated approach to tackling population, health, and environment issues.
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• Dr. Jane Bertrand of Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs Receives the Marjorie C. Horn Award for Excellence in Operations Research – 05/29/08
  


• The 2008 Humanitarian of the Year has Advanced Health Care for Yemen’s Women through USAID-Funded Project – 05/08

2007

• United Nations General Assembly Declares 2008 the International Year of Sanitation (IYS)
  On November 21, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly in New York declared 2008 to be the International Year of Sanitation (IYS). The launch was an important event for sanitation advocacy.
  
  
• USAID Population Official Receives Shultz Award – 11/05/07
  Dr. James D. Shelton of USAID’s Bureau for Global Health has received the prestigious Carl S. Shultz Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Public Health Association.
  
  
• USAID and Johns Hopkins Launch “Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers” – 09/27/07
  One of the World Heath Organization’s Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance, the book was prepared through a unique collaboration between Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USAID, and more than 30 organizations around the world.
  
  
• Access New Web Site for Global Health Indefinite Quantity Contracts – February 2007
  The new Web site http://ghiqc.usaid.gov/ hosts information on multi-award indefinite quantity contracts (IQCs) for USAID's Global Health Bureau, including the Health Policy Initiative (HPI) and Technical Assistance and Support Contract, Three (TASC3). The site is meant to be a place where USAID Missions can access guidelines and supporting documents for developing task orders and scopes of work. Then, in turn, contractors can access these documents, plus resources to aid in their IQC participation.

2006

• Agency-Sponsored Volunteers Assist Response to Avian Flu Threat - 05/06
• Darfur Clinic Reopens with Assistance from USAID - 05/06
• Agency Fights Rising TB Rates - 05/06
• Religious Leaders Spread Word on Health Issues - 04/06
• A Caravan Across West Africa Highlights the Need to Eliminate AIDS Stigma - 04/06
• Efforts to Stem Bird Flu Pandemic Increase - 04/06
• Faith-Based Work Recognized - 04/06
• Health Workers Join Forces to Fight AIDS - 03/06
• In Focus: Women - International Women’s Day Is Celebrated around the World - 03/06
• Tuberculosis Treatment in India - 03/06
• Bednets Take the Bite Out of Malaria - 02/06
• Healthcare Standards Rise in Afghanistan - 02/06
• Clinics in Madagascar Teach Young Adults - 01/06
• Foreign Operations Budget Approved - 01/06
• Indoor Spraying Fights Malaria - 01/06

2005

• Administrator Natsios to Leave Agency after Five Years at Helm - 12/05
• World AIDS Day - 12/05
• Doctors Treat Cases on Web System - 12/05
• Low-Cost Solutions Reward Health Centers - 12/05
• Namibia Leaders Raise HIV Awareness in Youth - 12/05
• Teams Sent to Mali Yellow Fever Region - 12/05
• Africa at Risk for Avian Flu, Say Officials - 12/05
• Dr. Kent R. Hill Appointed Assistant Administrator for Global Health - 11/05
• President Bush Seeks $7 Billion to Fight Avian Flu - 11/05
• Orthopedic Clinic Aids Injured Afghans - 11/05
• USAID Fights Cholera, Malaria in Senegal - 11/05
• Agency Sets $77 Million Supply Chain Partnership for AIDS Drugs - 11/05
• Process Speeds Malaria Nets - 11/05
• Central European Doctors Help Out in Africa, Asia - 11/05
• $254 Million in U.S. Aid Improves Afghan Health - 11/05
• USAID Staff Help in Nigeria’s Immunization - 11/05
• Marshall Islands Hospital Aided After Fire - 11/05
• Partnership to Protect Water, Environment - 11/05
• Pakistan to Receive Safe Water - 11/05
• Agency Explains How to Get a Job at USAID - 11/05
• Battle Widens as Avian Flu Spreads - 10/05
  • U.S. Response to Avian Flu - 10/05
• Training Improves Healthcare - 10/05
• Long-Lasting Mosquito Nets Repel Malaria - 10/05
• Polio Campaign to Reach 34 Million Children - 10/05
• Group Focuses on Kenyan Children with HIV - 10/05
• Year-Long African Rainbow Expedition to Fight Malaria - 10/05
• First Lady Visits HIV/AIDS Clinic - 09/05
• Rejection of Pre-Marriage Tradition Grows, Protecting Women’s Health and Lives - 09/05
• SMART Plan Tracks Mortality, Nutrition Status in Emergencies - 09/05
• Massive Polio Vaccinations for Indonesia - 09/05
• Healthcare Training to Get Boost in Ghana - 09/05
• Grant in Bolivia Focuses on Health - 09/05
• Agency Supports South African Explorer's Expedition to Prevent Malaria - 08/05
• Bush Pledges Aid to Africa for Malaria, Food - 08/05
• Congress Approves $25 Million to Fight Avian Flu in Asia - 08/05
• Education of Religious Leaders Key to Successful Health Program - 08/05
• First Person: USAID-Donated Medical Equipment in Kosovo - 08/05
• Global Development Alliance Works in Ghana, Niger, and Mali to Build Wells, Latrines - 08/05
• Health Teams Fight Serious Polio Outbreak on Three Continents - 08/05
• Technology Boosts Healthcare in Albania as Doctors Focus on Prevention - 08/05
• Afghan Midwives May Cut Death Rate - 06/05
• African Strain of Polio Virus Hits Indonesia - 06/05
• Handbook on Kids with HIV/AIDS - 06/05
• Health Agencies Fight Outbreak of Marburg Virus in Angola - 06/05
• Peru Improves Medical Services for Its Rural Poor - 06/05
• Over $3 Million to TB Programs - 06/05
• Stops for African Truckers Fight AIDS - 06/05
• Senegal’s Bus ‘Coaxers’ Learn to Fight HIV/AIDS - 06/05
• Tsunami: An Alum’s Up-Close Experience [PDF, 271KB]
• Accelerating the Fight Against Malaria - 06/30/05
• More than 130 Attend Global Health "Hot Topics and Technical Update" Meeting to Improve Coordination and Policy Understanding - 06/05
• USAID Responds to Avian Flu Threat - 06/05
• Agency Plays Pivotal Role in 19 Presidential Initiatives - 05/05
• USAID Plans Health Assistance Transition in Liberia Using Fragile State Strategy - 05/05
• USAID Responds to Marburg Outbreak in Angola - 05/05
• In the Balance: Saving the Lives of Mothers, Newborns & Children [PDF, 363KB]
• Antiviral Drugs Cut Toll of AIDS in Uganda - 04/05
• Bill and Melinda Gates Give Billions for Vaccines, Libraries, Food - 04/05
• Corporations Join Mexican Group to Fight AIDS in Workplace - 04/05
• Global Drug Facility Improves TB Drugs - 04/05
• Uganda Has Cut AIDS But Struggles with Its Economy and Conflict in the North - 04/05
• Clean Water Crucial to Improving Urban Health - 03/05
• Teachers, Imams Trained to Deal With Children’s Trauma - 03/05
• U.S. Leads Rise in Flow of Global Foreign Assistance - 03/05
• FDA Approves Generic AIDS Cocktail - 02/05
• First Person: Preventing Child Deaths in Senegal - 02/05
• Global Health Campaigns Saved Millions of Lives, Study Says - 02/05
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Swells - 02/05
• Midwife Training Improves Chances for Survival in Childbirth - 02/05
• $500 Million to Fight Children's Diseases - 01/05
• Anti-Malaria Plant Takes African Roots - 01/05
• Child Deaths Not Abating, U.N. Says - 01/05
• Heart Disease, Stroke, Other Chronic Illness Kill More than AIDS - 01/05
• India Fights HIV/AIDS - 01/05
• Voice of America and USAID Team Up to Beam Programming Worldwide - 01/05
• World AIDS Experts Back ‘ABC' Strategy in Lancet Article - 01/05

2004

• Agency Programs Helped Save Millions - 12/04
  
• Natsios, Tobias Say U.S. Leads World AIDS Fight - 12/04
  
• Women Focus of World AIDS Day - 12/04
  
• Child Survival & Health Programs Fund Progress Report to Congress Fiscal Year 2003
• Commentary: The Imperative for Family Planning in ART in Africa - 11/27/04
• Paraguay Community Pharmacies Provide Low-Cost Medicine - 11/04
  
• Uganda HIV Surge Linked to War - 11/04
  
• $100 Million for Abstinence War - 11/04
• 80 Million African Children to Get Polio Vaccine - 10/04
  
• Polio Epidemic in Africa Feared - 9/04
  
• African Brain Drain Imperils AIDS Fight - 9/04
  
• Nigerian Journalists Monitor, Counter HIV/AIDS Stigma - 9/04
  
• U.S. Highlights Abstinence at HIV/AIDS Conference - 9/04
  
• Religious Aid Groups Find Acceptance at Global AIDS Meeting - 9/04
• USAID Sudan Health Transformation Program - 05/12/04
• USAID Awards $2.5 Million to The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition - 05/12/04
• Setting the Record Straight on Malaria - Letter to the Editor of The Washington Post by Dr. E. Anne Peterson, Former Assistant Administrator for Global Health - 05/12/04
  
• USAID Honors Women Around the World on Mother's Day - 05/07/04
• First Agency Health Team Visits Libya As Sanctions Fall - 4/04
  
• Vaccines Saved Millions After They Were Offered to Poor Countries - 4/04
• U.S. Officials Head for Libya - 2/04

2003

• Creative Education and Zero Tolerance Curtail Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting - 10/03
  
• Saving Six Million Children Per Year by 2015 is the Target - 9/03
  
• $60 Million for Vaccines - 7/03
  
• Low-Cost Injections Decrease Death Rate During Childbirth - 4/03

IMPACTblog Posts

2010

• Integrating Family Planning, HIV, and MNCH Services in Ethiopia and Kenya - 12/30/10
• Solving Transportation Problems and Preventing AIDS Deaths in Lesotho - 12/15/10
• 200 Years of Global Health in 4 Minutes - 12/13/10
• Digital Birth Control On Your iPhone - 12/09/10
• Recognizing Community Health Workers in Afghanistan - 12/06/10
• Taking a Stand Against Violence Now - 12/06/10
• Giving Girls a Chance Against HIV/AIDS - 12/01/10