Tag: Jen Kates

Abortion foes threaten PEPFAR

Volume 402, Issue 10402
19 August 2023 

 

WORLD REPORT  Republicans question funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, one of the USA’s most effective global health programmes. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

As Congress considers next month whether to renew funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), global health advocates fear its two decades of bipartisan support might fracture. Created by President George W Bush in 2003, the programme is often cited as proof that adversaries across the political spectrum can agree on healthcare policy. …But this time is looking different.  [Continued here.]…

Raj Panjabi: bringing a global outlook to the US pandemic response

Volume 399, Issue 10338 
14 May 2022

 

PROFILE  Raj Panjabi 

In February, 2022, US President Joe Biden appointed global health physician and epidemiologist Raj Panjabi as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the White House National Security Council in Washington, DC, which advises Biden on foreign policy and security issues.[Continued here.]…

LGBTQ discrimination in US health care under scrutiny

Volume 395    Number 10242     
27 June 2020                          
WORLD REPORT  A US Supreme Court ruling could undermine the Trump Administration’s plan to roll back some protections against sex discrimination. Susan Jaffe reports. 

The Trump administration suffered a major defeat last week a major defeat last week in the US Supreme Court, which could undermine its attempt to scrap protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) against sex discrimination. In a landmark decision on June 15, the court ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination by their employers. But days later, Trump Administration officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalised a more permissive standard for discrimination in health care. [Continued here.]  

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CDC faces leadership changes, potential spending cuts

Volume 391, Number 10121   
17 February 2018

 

WORLD REPORT   The CDC has indicated it will reduce its foreign presence, and proposed budget cuts make some fear its core functions are threatened. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet’s Washington correspondent, reports.

“We don’t know what the next outbreak organism will be; we don’t know where it will come from, or when it will emerge”, [former CDC director Dr. Tom] Frieden said. “But we are 100% certain there will be a next one and if we are not better prepared than we were during Ebola, shame on us.”  [Full article here.]

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NIH hopes funding increases will continue

 lancet cover 2Volume 387, Number  10019
13 February 2016
WORLD REPORT   The US National Institutes of Health welcomed a record budget boost that might be the start of more sustained support. The Lancet’s Washington correspondent, Susan Jaffe, reports.

The US Congress recently approved the largest single increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 12 years—a US$2 billion raise that was twice as much as President Barack Obama requested. But almost as soon as NIH supporters stopped cheering, they began to worry about next year’s budget, and the challenge of a new public health threat, Zika virus.

NIH Director Francis Collins told The Lancet that the funding boost “was enormously gratifying”. But if it is “a one-hit wonder”, he said “it won’t be sufficient to take full advantage of the remarkable scientific opportunities and talent that is out there”.   [Continued here] [podcast here]

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