Category: Global Health
Steve Scher, host of KUOW’s talk show Weekday, today interviewed three Seattle experts who are working to control and prevent malaria, a disease that kills 1 million people a year, mostly children. A podcast of the show is available online. Scher’s guests included: Dr. Rip Ballou, deputy director for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Development at the [...]
Gates gives $255 million to $630 million polio eradication push The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary International for its Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Rotary will match the Gates grant with $100 million raised by its own members over the next three years. In addition, the United [...]
Learn about opportunities to get involved in global health and global development projects here in Washington state at a Wednesday evening event sponsored by Global Washington, a coalition of Washington state nonprofit organizations, corporations, small businesses and academic institutions interested in promoting global development initiatives. Global Washington Press Release: Celebrate with Global Washington PLEASE [...]
Learn about opportunities to get involved in global health and global development projects here in Washington state at a Wednesday evening event sponsored by Global Washington, a coalition of Washington state nonprofit organizations, corporations, small businesses and academic institutions interested in promoting global development initiatives.
Dr. Catherine Wilfert developed the idea that it was possible to prevent the AIDS virus from spreading from an infected mother to her uninfected newborn by giving an anti-HIV drug to the mother just before and to the child right after delivery. The approach can cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 80% and [...]
Dr. Catherine Wilfert developed the idea that it was possible to prevent the AIDS virus from spreading from an infected mother to her uninfected newborn by giving an anti-HIV drug to the mother just before and to the child right after delivery. The approach can cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 80% and is credited [...]
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce’s Regional Leadership Conference last month focused on the region’s growing role in global health initiatives. Representatives of the Washington Global Health Alliance, an organization of local nonprofit organizations, foundations, university programs and businesses involved in addressing global health problems, addressed the Chamber, describing the scale of these challenges and scope [...]
Two Seattle-based foundations are behind a large malaria vaccine trial being launched in Africa next month.
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