Recommended Readings: June 16, 2009

by Alanna Shaikh · 2009-06-16 10:43:00 UTC
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Ruth Levine talks about Advance Market Commitments for vaccines on the Center for Global Development blog. CGD has every right to be proud of this; they were a major player in making this happen. Now that it's finally - finally - going to happen, read all about it.

Physicians for Human Rights has a new report out about the targeting of physicians in Kosovo. It's ugly stuff. "in the period 1998 and early 1999, Serbian police and paramilitary forces targeted Kosovar Albanian physicians for allegedly providing care to members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. This persecution breached the requirements of human rights law and the Geneva Conventions by failing to respect physicians' ethical obligation to provide medical care to patients..."

The Science Speaks blog has several great posts from the recent 2009 HIV/AIDS implementers meeting in Namibia.  I especially liked this post from Dr. John Idoko, Director General of Nigeria's National Agency for the Control of AIDS, on cost effectiveness, and this detailed look at HIV prevention. For highlights of the meeting overall, this post is useful.

This week the WHO declared swine flu to be a pandemic. (see my other post today). Maryn McKenna reminds us that we could have caught the spread of H1N1 a lot faster if anyone had been doing surveillance in pigs. That's a problem not just for swine flu, but for all diseases that pass from animals to humans.

Alanna Shaikh
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