What are the implications for global health now that Obama is set to become the next president of the United States? Well a year a go this is what Obama had to say about various global health issues:
On reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis:
I’ll double annual foreign assistance from $25b to $50b by 2012. I was a co-sponsor of the Lantos-Hyde Act that authorized $48 billion by 2013 for HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. I support lifting the 33% cap on US contributions to the Global Fund, ensuring at least 4.5 million people are on ARV treatment by 2013, and preventing 12 million new infections.
On eradicating malaria:
I will support the goal of ending deaths from malaria by 2015 by building on the $1billion per year commitment to malaria in the recent PEPFAR reauthorization and dramatically expanding access to mosquito nets that for less than $6 will lower the risk of getting malaria and save lives. I will also expand access to ACTs – at the relatively inexpensive cost of $2 per dose – to treat people who get malaria.
On improving child and maternal health:
I will increase funding for child and maternal health and ensure that increases in other important areas – including HIV/AIDS – do not come at the expense of child health and survival programs. I will expand access to vaccinations, increase research into new vaccines, and expand access to reproductive health programs.
source:
http://www.one.org/blog/2008/11/05/president-elect-barack-obama/
but in the midst of the current economic crisis, will he come through? (these folks seem to think so)
Find out for yourself this Thursday! (details below)
Global Health Aid and the Obama Administration
Thursday November 13
12 noon – 1pm
Mulberry Conference Room
295 Lafayette Street
The Puck Building
Take Elevator to the 2nd Floor, take the stairs up to the 3rd Floor
Given the economic challenges and the advent of a new administration that comes with a host of global expectations of change, how will global development aid, and specifically in the health field, fare? Join us for lunch discussion featuring John Gershman to lead the conversation!
PLEASE RSVP to Dina.Mikdadi@nyu.edu
We need the numbers for food requirements! YES there will be food!
John Gershman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Public
Service, Associate Director of NYU’s Global MPH Program, and Director
of Undergraduate Programs at Wagner. His research, writing, and
advocacy work has focused on issues of U.S. foreign policy in East and
Southeast Asia, the politics of international financial institutions
and multilateralism, the political economy of democracy and
development, the strategies and responses of social movements and NGOs
to globalization, and terrorism.
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