Global Health Articles in USAID's FrontLines

May 2006

• Agency-Sponsored Volunteers Assist Response to Avian Flu Threat
• Darfur Clinic Reopens with Assistance from USAID
• Agency Fights Rising TB Rates

April 2006

• Religious Leaders Spread Word on Health Issues
• A Caravan Across West Africa Highlights the Need to Eliminate AIDS Stigma
• Efforts to Stem Bird Flu Pandemic Increase
• Faith-Based Work Recognized

March 2006

• Health Workers Join Forces to Fight AIDS
• In Focus: Women - International Women’s Day Is Celebrated around the World
• Tuberculosis Treatment in India

February 2006

• Bednets Take the Bite Out of Malaria
• Healthcare Standards Rise in Afghanistan

January 2006

• Clinics in Madagascar Teach Young Adults
• Foreign Operations Budget Approved
• Indoor Spraying Fights Malaria

December 2005

• Administrator Natsios to Leave Agency after Five Years at Helm
• World AIDS Day
• Doctors Treat Cases on Web System
• Low-Cost Solutions Reward Health Centers
• Namibia Leaders Raise HIV Awareness in Youth
• Teams Sent to Mali Yellow Fever Region
• Africa at Risk for Avian Flu, Say Officials

November 2005

• President Bush Seeks $7 Billion to Fight Avian Flu
• Orthopedic Clinic Aids Injured Afghans
• USAID Fights Cholera, Malaria in Senegal
• Agency Sets $77 Million Supply Chain Partnership for AIDS Drugs
• Process Speeds Malaria Nets
• Central European Doctors Help Out in Africa, Asia
• $254 Million in U.S. Aid Improves Afghan Health
• USAID Staff Help in Nigeria’s Immunization
• Marshall Islands Hospital Aided After Fire
• Partnership to Protect Water, Environment
• Pakistan to Receive Safe Water
• Agency Explains How to Get a Job at USAID

October 2005

• Battle Widens as Avian Flu Spreads
  • U.S. Response to Avian Flu
• Training Improves Healthcare
• Long-Lasting Mosquito Nets Repel Malaria
• Polio Campaign to Reach 34 Million Children
• Group Focuses on Kenyan Children with HIV
• Year-Long African Rainbow Expedition to Fight Malaria

September 2005

• First Lady Visits HIV/AIDS Clinic
• Rejection of Pre-Marriage Tradition Grows, Protecting Women’s Health and Lives
• SMART Plan Tracks Mortality, Nutrition Status in Emergencies
• Massive Polio Vaccinations for Indonesia
• Healthcare Training to Get Boost in Ghana
• Grant in Bolivia Focuses on Health

July-August 2005

• Agency Supports South African Explorer's Expedition to Prevent Malaria
• Bush Pledges Aid to Africa for Malaria, Food
• Congress Approves $25 Million to Fight Avian Flu in Asia
• Education of Religious Leaders Key to Successful Health Program
• First Person: USAID-Donated Medical Equipment in Kosovo
• Global Development Alliance Works in Ghana, Niger, and Mali to Build Wells, Latrines
• Health Teams Fight Serious Polio Outbreak on Three Continents
• Technology Boosts Healthcare in Albania as Doctors Focus on Prevention

June 2005

• Afghan Midwives May Cut Death Rate
• African Strain of Polio Virus Hits Indonesia
• Handbook on Kids with HIV/AIDS
• Health Agencies Fight Outbreak of Marburg Virus in Angola
• Peru Improves Medical Services for Its Rural Poor
• Over $3 Million to TB Programs
• Stops for African Truckers Fight AIDS
• Senegal’s Bus ‘Coaxers’ Learn to Fight HIV/AIDS

May 2005

• Agency Plays Pivotal Role in 19 Presidential Initiatives

April 2005

• Antiviral Drugs Cut Toll of AIDS in Uganda
• Bill and Melinda Gates Give Billions for Vaccines, Libraries, Food
• Corporations Join Mexican Group to Fight AIDS in Workplace
• Global Drug Facility Improves TB Drugs
• Uganda Has Cut AIDS But Struggles with Its Economy and Conflict in the North

March 2005

• Clean Water Crucial to Improving Urban Health
• Teachers, Imams Trained to Deal With Children’s Trauma
• U.S. Leads Rise in Flow of Global Foreign Assistance

February 2005

• FDA Approves Generic AIDS Cocktail
• First Person: Preventing Child Deaths in Senegal
• Global Health Campaigns Saved Millions of Lives, Study Says
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Swells
• Midwife Training Improves Chances for Survival in Childbirth

January 2005

• $500 Million to Fight Children's Diseases
• Anti-Malaria Plant Takes African Roots
• Child Deaths Not Abating, U.N. Says
• Heart Disease, Stroke, Other Chronic Illness Kill More than AIDS
• India Fights HIV/AIDS
• Voice of America and USAID Team Up to Beam Programming Worldwide
• World AIDS Experts Back ‘ABC' Strategy in Lancet Article

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