Capacity Building. African Pharmaceuticals. Time AU member nations to take control of pharmaceutical industry within the continent.

Taking control of even the generic pharma market will bring tremendous advantages to human capital, national security, and contributions to health care sector.

Time for a change not only in control of natural resources, but resources provided to well-being of all.  

BEMA

http://www.scidev.net/global/medicine/analysis-blog/private-sector-india-generic-drug-wars.html

"The African market, expected to be worth US$30 billion by 2016,"

Bringing science and development together through original news and analysis

PHARMACEUTICALS

Threats to the Pharmacy of the Developing World

Africans who depend on drugs produced on the cheap in India could pay the steepest price if proposed changes to Indian patent law are pushed through, warns Maha Rafi Atal, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Indian companies ran afoul of Big Pharma in the 1970s when they began to only recognize patents for drug-making processes, rather than products. This opened the door for Indian companies to alter processes and “reverse engineer” medications cheaply, which they began exporting to poor countries. For example, they provide about 80% of the antiretrovirals used to treat HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Now, under US pressure, India could change its laws—and that arrangement could unravel. As Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa's health minister, said, “We regard India as the pharmacy of the developing world … They were our heroes, and if they change their laws now, we will be in big trouble in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

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Webinar Training Opportunity. Mutual Aid Agreement. September 17, 2015

1. Mutual Aid Agreement Webinar:On Thursday, September 17th at 1 p.m. 

• Eastern, Missouri's State Mutual Aid Coordinator will host a presentation on Missouri's mutual aid system and its continuity efforts during the Joplin, Missouri tornado in 2011Every fire department will at some time require mutual aid assistance, even well-funded departments or departments in large cities. Having good communication, expectations, and crafting a good written mutual aid agreement with neighboring departments is essential to ensure everyone's needs are being met and no one is being taken advantage of.    This webinar is part of the Resilience Development Webinar Series sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) and is hosted by IP's Emergency Services Section. Interested people should register for this event.     http://dfs.dps.mo.gov/programs/resources/mutual-aid.php 

U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services. Ebola. Funding for Hospitals. August 31, 2015

Caring for Ebola Patients.  U.S. HHS Funding for Hospitals.

• HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has awarded approximately $20 million through its Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) to enhance the regional treatment centers' capabilities to care for patients with Ebola or other highly infectious diseases. ASPR will provide an additional $9 million to these recipients in the subsequent four years to sustain their readiness.
• HHS selects nine regional Ebola and other special pathogen treatment centers:    The facilities announced today will be continuously ready and available to care for a patient with Ebola or another severe, highly infectious disease, whether the patient is medically evacuated from overseas or is diagnosed within the United States.
• The nine awardees and their partner hospitals are:*Massachusetts Department of Public Health in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts *New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in partnership with New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation/HHC Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City *Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in partnership with Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland *Georgia Department of Public Health in partnership with Emory University Hospital and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Egleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia *Minnesota Department of Health in partnership with the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota *Texas Department of State Health Services in partnership with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in Galveston, Texas *Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska *Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in partnership with Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado *Washington State Department of Health in partnership with Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital in Spokane, Washington       

          For more information on the National Ebola Training and Education Center, contact hpp@hhs.gov. 

Training Opportunities 2015-2016. FEMA Incident Command System Train-the-Trainer

Dates: 
         October 19-22, 2015 
         February 22-25, 2016 
         May 2-5, 2016 
         August 1-4, 2016

Location: 
          Emergency Management Institute 
          National Emergency Training Center (NETC) 
          Emmitsburg, Maryland

COMPLETE PREREQUISITES BEFORE APPLYING

This course prepares participants to deliver Emergency Management Institute's (EMI) ICS curricula.

http://training.fema.gov/emigrams/2015/1189%20-%20training%20opportunity%20-%20e449%20ics%20train%20the%20trainer%20fy%202016.pdf?d=8/26/2015

Webinar: Sept 9, 2015. Partnerships American Red Cross and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)

FEMA is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 9^th from 3-4:30pm ET. The presentation may provide some great insight on partnerships and features organizations with whom you may be working – American Red Cross and CERT. All of the details may be found below.

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Webinar: Local Partnerships Between the American Red Cross and CERT 

The American Red Cross and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) serve communities throughout the United States in a variety of ways before, during, and after emergencies. But while both programs accomplish a great deal individually, they can do even more when they work together. As partners, CERT and American Red Cross programs and volunteers can work to advance their mutual goals of increasing the preparedness and resilience of local neighborhoods and communities and offering vital assistance and support in the aftermath of disasters.

The FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division invites you to join a webinar that showcases successful partnerships between local American Red Cross regions and CERT programs. Three sets of American Red Cross and CERT programs serving three unique jurisdictions will discuss how they are working together to make their communities safer, stronger, and more resilient. Presenters will share how they established their partnerships, what lessons they learned from the experience, and how their collaboration benefitted their programs and communities. The webinar will conclude with a question and answer session.

Title: Local Partnerships Between the American Red Cross and CERT

Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Time:  3:00 - 4:30 p.m. (ET)

This webinar will feature American Red Cross and CERT guest speakers from the following jurisdictions:

• Delaware County, PA
• Denver, CO
• Detroit, MI

How to Join the Webinar:

• Adobe Connect Registration Web Link.
• Please register for the event.  Be sure to test your Adobe Connect connection prior to the meeting.
• This webinar will offer closed captioning.

We hope that you will be able to join us on September 9! If you can’t make it, we will be posting the recording, transcript, and slide deck of the presentation on this page, under “Citizen Corps Partners/Affiliates”: http://www.ready.gov/preparedness-leader/webinar-library. You can also view our most recent webinar on including people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in CERT training at: https://icpd.adobeconnect.com/p1onuoh5wic/.