Opinions: Don't Slow Fight Against HIV, TB, Malaria; U.S. Focus On Women, Girls
2010 To Be 'Decisive Year' For Global Health, Global Fund Director Says In a BusinessDay opinion piece, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Michel Kazatchkine reflects on the organization's progress and impact on global health outcomes since its creation in 2002, as detailed in the organizations' 2010 annual report. Kazatchkine writes, 2010 will be a decisive year; the world will be reviewing progress on the millennium goals. But this is also the year of the fund's replenishment... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Obama Attacks Insurers, Rallies Public To Press Congress To Approve Health Reform
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases, The Washington Post reports, adding that President Obama and his health secretary staged a two-pronged attack Monday in a stern letter to health insurance chief executives and a speech in which the president castigated insurance companies 22 times. 'How much higher do premiums have to rise,' he demanded, 'before we do something about it?' The president gave an impassioned speech in Philadelphia Monday... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
