The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has been refunded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – $279 over 10 years. The IHME has been assessing the country, regional and global burden of multiple diseases, its impact on health status, mortality and indirectly on economies with years of life lost,… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: January 2017
Delivering on Antimicrobial Resistance Agenda (AMR) Not Possible without Improving Fungal Diagnostic Capabilities
Ignorance of fungal disease and lack of diagnostics across the world is causing doctors to unknowingly overprescribe antibiotics a new report warns. Experts from GAFFI (the Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections) caution that we will lose the battle against antibiotic resistance unless doctors better understand how to suspect fungal disease and have proper access… Read more »
GAFFI opens UK sister foundation and Oddi Aasheim joins as Director
For operational and fund raising reasons, GAFFI has set up a sister foundation in the form of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation – GAFFI UK. Sharing identical objectives and the same website, GAFFI UK will enable GAFFI to begin to implement its programs more easily and at less cost, and become tax-efficient for UK tax payers…. Read more »