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Global Health News
December 2007
USAID Awards Fistula Care
USAID recently announced the award of Fistula Care, a $70 million, five-year Associate Cooperative Agreement to EngenderHealth and its partners that will build on the successes of the ACQUIRE Project.
Fistula Care is based in the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Division of the Bureau for Global Health Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition (HIDN). In fiscal year 2008, fistula activities will transition from the ACQUIRE project to Fistula Care. As an Associate Cooperative Agreement mechanism, Fistula Care is available to Missions and can accept field support for technical assistance activities and program implementation in a full range of fistula prevention, repair, reintegration, and research activities. Fistula Care will assist USAID/Washington in monitoring fistula activities and reporting on this area of congressional interest.
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| Source: Kim Flowers, USAID/Ethiopia |
USAID World AIDS Day Review
As a part of World AIDS Day, USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore greets a young girl at a USAID-supported Urban Agriculture Program in Ethiopia that helps HIV-affected adolescent orphans and women improve their nutritional status and increase their income level. Through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the program has helped 38,000 Ethiopian children and women generate income from their garden plots, helping them stay in school and adhere to HIV/AIDS treatment.
New HIV/AIDS Success Stories
East Africa Population, Health, and Environment Network Forms at Regional Conference, Advances Integrated Development
The East Africa Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Network was launched on November 16, 2007, at the Integrated Development for East Africa Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Working with development planners, NGO representatives, researchers, and other key stakeholders from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, USAID supported a two-day workshop on coalition building, which served as a foundation for the network.
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| Source: Zandra André/USAID |
Avian Influenza Program Update: Pandemic Planning
In response to widespread H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks and concerns the virus could mutate into a form capable of causing a human influenza pandemic, USAID is implementing an aggressive package of interventions geared toward pandemic prevention. USAID is also increasing pandemic planning efforts, which focus on ensuring communities in areas most vulnerable to the effects of an influenza pandemic have access to food, water, and uninterrupted provision of care for other diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.
Recent Global Health Web Site Updates
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Beginning on the International Day of Eliminating Violence Against Women, encompassing World AIDS Day on December 1, and ending on International Human Rights Day, 16 Days of Activism raised awareness about the violence that women and girls face in our global communities as a result of their unequal status in society and the intersection of violence and public health and development obstacles. Read more...
Photo source: IRIN/OCHA, © 2005. Georgina Cranston, photographer |
USAID's Family Planning Guiding Principles and U.S. Legislative and Policy Requirements
Principles of voluntarism and informed choice guide USAID's family planning program. These principles are articulated in program guidelines and a number of legislative and policy requirements that govern the use of U.S. family planning assistance.
New Fiscal Year 2008 Edition of the Users' Guide to USAID/Washington Health Programs
The recently updated Users' Guide includes an introduction to USAID, plus the Agency's health objectives, programs, and structure. It also contains a directory of USAID global health projects.
View USAID Global Health Employment Opportunities
Updated frequently, this page displays employment opportunities within USAID's Global Health Bureau, plus other positions in regional bureaus and Missions.
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