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Dec
4
2009
1:30—3:00 PM
November 23, 2009
Haitian girls and young women living in Port-au-Prince are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection, with a much higher HIV prevalence than the general population. Since the early 1980s, the Haitian Study Group on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) has provided care for HIV/AID...
Oct
7
2009
10:00—11:30 AM
September 29, 2009
Join us as we launch CGD's newest report, Start With A Girl: A New Agenda For Global Health. The report, supported by the Nike Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a complement to the 2008 publication, Girls Count: An Action and Investment Agenda, and is part of a series of publica...
Sep
17
2009
9:00—3:30 PM
September 14, 2009
At their Washington Summit in 2008, G20 political leaders highlighted child survival, maternal mortality and the response to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics among their commitments. Yet, just six months later, in London in April 2009, health was hardly in evidence. As the G20 leaders prepare...
Sep
21
2009
12:30—1:45 PM
September 11, 2009
The past decade has seen remarkable increases in the amount of funding for global health, and fundamental shifts in how that money is deployed. New institutions have emerged, and the "rules of the game" in international health have been rewritten. As global health has taken center stage in developme...
Sep
17
2009
12:00—1:30 PM
September 10, 2009
An estimated shortage of over 4 million doctors, nurses and other health workers in developing countries acts as a major roadblock to economic and human development. Working in Health considers the fiscal issues in expanding the health workforce and the policy options available to governments. Throu...
Jul
1
2009
10:00—12:00 PM
June 18, 2009
Today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61 percent of all people infected with HIV are women, and women age 15-24 are the most vulnerable to infection. Women and girls are at greater risk of HIV infection in part due to power imbalances between women and men that limit the social and economic choices that wome...
Jun
17
2009
12:30—2:00 PM
June 10, 2009
GIS is becoming increasingly popular in health care research in recent years. Typical GIS-based studies include an analysis such as “hot-spot” analysis that detects clusters of an infectious disease, simulation of a disease spread, or demand & supply analysis that identifies geographical areas with ...
Jun
16
2009
4:00—6:00 PM
June 09, 2009
What will it take to improve the performance of health systems in low-income countries -- to increase the use of essential preventive services like immunization and prenatal care, to ensure adherence to TB and AIDS treatment, to reduce health worker absenteeism and to improve the use of data for dec...
May
21
2009
12:00—2:00 PM
May 18, 2009
The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health is releasing its final report on May 20, which is expected to address the case for a deeper commitment to global health by the U.S. and communicate specific recommendations pertaining to the government, academia, the...
Apr
20
2009
3:00—4:30 PM
April 09, 2009
Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Alan Whiteside, where he will examine the origins of AIDS exceptionalism and how it has helped and hindered our response to the epidemic. Whiteside will ask if exceptionalism is still a useful concept in light of our current knowledge about the epidemic, the ...