Tweeps,
I hope you’re all doing well. I enjoyed seeing some of you up here in New York for the MDG Summit last week.
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As for the MDG Summit, it seems like the opinions are rolling in on both the final UN declaration on the summit and President Obama’s signing of a policy security directive on global development (the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network has posted some of the reaction on their blog (http://www.modernizingforeignassistance.org/blog/).
A couple highlights on R&D and AIDS we pushed out on Twitter and FB. The final UN document declaration (http://bit.ly/9jfsIL) says the global community commits to: Further promoting research and development, knowledge-sharing
and the provision and use of ICT for health, including through facilitating
affordable access by all countries, especially developing countries;
(o) Enhancing public-private partnerships for health-care service delivery, encouraging the development of new and affordable technologies and their innovative application and developing new and affordable vaccines and
medicines needed, in particular, in developing countries;
“Invest in game-changing innovations with the potential to solve long-standing development challenges. Leveraging the power of research and development, the United States will:
· Increase our investments and engagement in development-focused innovation by seeking and scaling up potential game-changing development technologies such as vaccines for neglected diseases, weather-resistant seed varieties, and clean energy technologies.
· Increase public funding - while securing more private funding - for development-focused research, including by:
o Capitalizing new models for innovation and bringing sustainable models to scale;
o Using our leadership, bilaterally and multilaterally, to foster, highlight, and reward innovation; and
o Increasing developing countries’ creation and utilization of science and technology and removing impediments to innovation faced by the private sector.”
In regard to bolstering science, tech & innovation to help achieve the MDGs, I wanted to end with a plug to check out a post in the Global Health Magazine blog by Dr. Omu Anzala, who directs the Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, IAVI’s partner based at the University of Nairobi. Anzala makes the case that in order for Africa to achieve the MDGs, there must be “substantial investments to unlock the potential of a new generation of African minds to tackle the continent's greatest challenges.” http://bit.ly/9Rs6rN
I hope everyone has a great week!
Best,
Vince
Vince Blaser
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
New Media Specialist
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