IRC Rome's List: Health Issues

December 31, 2015 -- "The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Guinea has successfully halted Ebola transmission and now joins Sierra Leone and Liberia in recovering from this devastating disease. This represents a significant milestone for Guinea, West Africa, and the international community."

December 1, 2015 -- "This is not a new experience for me as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana -- closing my eyes and counting to 10 as I wait in line in a cramped grocery store while a cashier, in a comically unhurried manner"

December 1, 2015 -- "Today, in conjunction with World AIDS Day, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy is releasing the Federal Action Plan for 2016-2020, which outlines specific Federal agency actions to implement the updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy next year and through 2020. "

September 29, 2015 -- "As the international community comes together at the U.N. General Assembly to set the new global sustainable development agenda, today progress was made toward fulfilling the goal of promoting health and well-being for people in the most challenging environments around the world."

September 1, 2015 -- "In this Q&A series, we are profiling the experts who have worked tirelessly to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa and are helping societies rebuild and strengthen health systems in the aftermath of the outbreak."

August 13, 2015 -- In the face of global health challenges, resource availability changes, political and social landscapes evolve, and goals shift according to what is feasible and realistic. In order to make things happen, we have to be flexible and adaptive.

July 17, 2015 -- "When the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched the PEPFAR Dashboards last year  -- enabling all to view, download, and utilize PEPFAR data -- it was recognized as a critical step to drive program transparency, mutual accountability, and impact."

July 10, 2015 -- "Today, governments and institutions from around the world are convening in New York in support of the recovery efforts in the countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak. Visiting those countries last October, I met a young man from Sierra Leone who had volunteered to work in an Ebola treatment unit."

July 8, 2015 -- "Nearly twenty years after the United Nations designated June 26th as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, illegal drug cultivation, production, trafficking, and consumption continue to plague the globe."

July 3, 2015 -- "In a new Q&A series, we are profiling the experts who have worked tirelessly to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa and are helping societies rebuild and strengthen health systems in the aftermath of the outbreak."

June 22, 2015 -- [...] "Last month in Sierra Leone, Gibril shared his harrowing ordeal with our visiting team from Washington, D.C. As the senior coordinator of USAID’s Africa Ebola Unit, I was traveling with USAID Associate Administrator Eric Postel and others in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea"

May 19, 2015 -- "The largest and deadliest outbreak of Ebola ever seen is over … in Liberia at least.

More than 45 days have passed since the last known Ebola transmission in Liberia. With no new cases during that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared an end to the Liberian epidemic."

May 11, 2015 -- "The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic. According to the WHO, since the outbreak was declared in March 2014, there were more than 10,000 confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia, with more than 4,500 deaths estimated -- including hundreds of health care workers."

April 15, 2015 -- "Well, I want to welcome Presidents Sirleaf, Koroma and Condé. The United States has a long partnership with Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea -- partnerships that prove to be critical in the fight against Ebola. We’re here to assess progress today and to look ahead."

April 14, 2015 -- "But that downward trend isn’t enough progress for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The fight against Ebola is far from over,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden as he marked the first anniversary of the agency’s response to the West African outbreak."

March 23, 2015 -- "We have all been following the news reports on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa since last summer. It is a crisis that has already claimed over 10,000 lives, and one that must be stopped at all costs."

March 4, 2015 -- "Representatives from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Government of Kenya, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the United Nation’s Children’s Fund, and other multilateral organizations participated in a high-profile event in Nairobi to launch ALL IN – a new platform for action to end AIDS among adolescents. "

March 2, 2015 -- "President Obama and Defense Secretary Ash Carter spoke in separate meetings on February 27 with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who said she came to the United States to thank the U.S. government and the American people for helping Liberia fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa."

February 12, 2015 -- "The American and partner-nation fight in the last few months against the Ebola virus in West Africa has cut cases of the disease by 80 percent, President Obama announced February 11.

But the battle won’t be over until the caseload totals zero, he said."

February 11, 2015 -- [...]"Last summer, as Ebola spread in West Africa, overwhelming public health systems and threatening to cross more borders, I said that fighting this disease had to be more than a national security priority, but an example of American leadership. After all, whenever and wherever a disaster or a disease strikes, the world looks to us to lead."