Sara Jerving
Senior Reporter at Devex
Global health journalist at @Devex [email protected]
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
Noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs, have long been sidelined by the global health sector, which has largely focused on infectious diseases — but deprioritizing them has dire consequences. They’re now the leading cause of death and disability globally — with nearly three-quarters of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Treatments are often expensive, with many people paying out-of-pocket or forgoing them when the price is too high.
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving |Rumbi Chakamba
As the 78th World Health Assembly draws to a close and delegates head home, it’s time to take stock: What actually got done — and what’s next for the World Health Organization? The end of the beginningLike many of you, we spent the week frantically moving between the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, known as “the Palais,” and crowded side events scattered across the rainy city. This year’s WHA came with an unmistakable sense of urgency.
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2 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
Ensuring impacts on health are prioritized in climate change discussions hasn’t always been an easy sell in a discussion that was long dominated by imagery of melting icebergs and starving polar bears.
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2 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi was nominated to lead the agency's regional office for Africa after an unprecedented election. He is the second Tanzanian to be nominated for this role in the past nine months. Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, a cardiologist and health policy expert from Tanzania, has been nominated to lead the World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa as its new director.
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2 weeks ago |
devex.com | Sara Jerving
Under the Trump administration, global health programs once managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development will transition to the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, or GHSD, by July 1. This bureau has been tasked with hiring 80 positions — 50 in Washington, D.C., and 30 overseas.
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RT @WHOAFRO: Uganda has declared the end of Ebola disease outbreak, less than three months after the virus was confirmed. Robust, coordina…
USAID leadership sent out guidance to country missions abroad which highlighted 24 “central awards to support global health programming” that will continue under the agency’s “narrower focus.” https://t.co/kC9EkRWjsm
USAID foreign service officers have been ordered to return to the U.S. by Aug. 15th. That's the same day all local hires — known as foreign service nationals — in countries where the agency has worked will be terminated. https://t.co/gENIALbuCD