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  • Unplanned ARV Treatment Interruptions in southern Africa – HEARD

    Posted by Brian Kenety on 05 March 2010

      When a crisis strikes, access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can be among the first casualties, particularly in countries where many people are on treatment. But experience in Southern Africa has shown that although preventing treatment disruptions may be wishful thinking, preparing for them has become a pressing need. New research by the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at South Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal compared three recent crises that caused ...

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  • International Monetary Fund

    Posted by Brian Kenety on 05 March 2010

      The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants new authority to supervise the global financial system, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said. “We must build on this positive momentum: to transform the Fund into an institution even better equipped to meet the challenges of the post-crisis era,” Strauss-Kahn told a meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee. He called for the Fund to improve its tools for financial surveillance and to “construct a global risk map&...

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  • World Bank

    Posted by Brian Kenety on 05 March 2010

      World Bank President Robert Zoellick said last week that a double-dip economic recession was unlikely but there still was a sense of uncertainty as the world economy emerges from recession. “The world economy is no longer staring into the abyss but we’re definitely not out of the woods by any means,” Zoellick told a meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee. “I don’t believe that a double dip is likely. But I think the pace of the recovery is going to be qui...

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  • United Nations

    Posted by Brian Kenety on 05 March 2010

      Following a request from the Chilean government for assistance in the wake of Saturday’s devastating earthquake, the U.N. and Member States are assisting the South American nation to assess the damage wrought and help people in need. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in the early hours of the morning on Feb. 27, and has claimed more than 700 lives, according to government officials, with the death toll expected to climb as communications are restored to the most affected are...

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  • Yemen

    Posted by Brian Kenety on 05 March 2010

      Hundreds of schools in the northern Yemeni province of Saada have reopened after five months of closure following an 11 February ceasefire between Yemen’s army and Houthi-led Shia rebels, according to local officials. More than half the 121,000 students in grades 1-12 who were due to start the current semester last October were invited to return to school on 27 February, Mohammed al-Shamiri, head of the Saada education office, told IRIN. “We issued a circular calling on al...

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