News and Features - 2007

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December

• 12/17/2007—December 2007 Newsletter for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Now Available
• 12/14/2007—HHS Renews Memorandum of Understanding with the People’s Republic of China on HIV/AIDS
• 12/14/2007—HHS Concludes Agreements with the People’s Republic of China on the Safety of Food and Drugs
• 12/11/2007—View Webcast of HHS/World Health Organization Workshop on Immune Correlates of Protection Against Influenza A Viruses, in Support of Pandemic-Vaccine Development
• 12/10/2007—Call for Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentations for 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting, in Kampala Uganda, June 3-7, 2008
• 12/10/2007—HHS/NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Announces New Spanish-Language Website
• 12/10/2007—HHS Secretary Opens Multi-Day Visit to the People's Republic of China; Import Safety Tops Agenda
• 12/07/2007—U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Director of HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Testify Before U.S. Senate
• 12/04/2007—HHS Assists Ugandan Ministry of Health to Control Outbreak of Ebola Virus and to Investigate Cases of Schistosomiasis
• 12/03/2007—HHS Secretary Addresses U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Import Safety
• 12/01/2007—HHS Food and Drug Administration Gives Tentative Approval to First Generic Version of Tenofovir

November

• 11/30/2007—President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Emphasizes the Power of Partnerships on World AIDS Day
• 11/26/2007—HHS Secretary Continues Nationwide Fact-Finding Tour on Import Safety
• 11/21/2007—United Nations Agencies Release New Data on the State of the Worldwide HIV/AIDS Pandemic
• 11/21/2007—United States and People's Republic of China to Hold Third Meeting Under the Strategic Economic Dialogue in China Next Month
• 11/19/2007—Fourth Training of Central Americans Takes Place at the Regional Health-Care Training Center in Panamá City
• 11/19/2007—HHS Assistant Secretary for Aging Carbonell Represents the U.S. Government at the 14th Conference of First Ladies, Spouses and Representatives of Heads of State and Government of the Americas
• 11/19/2007—November 2007 Newsletter for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Now Available
• 11/17/2007—Response to Articles in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the HHS Afghanistan Health Initiative
• 11/14/2007—HHS Presents World AIDS Day Webinar
• 11/15/2007—President's Malaria Initiative Awards First Grants Under Malaria Communities Program
• 11/14/2007—President Bush Awards Medal of Freedom to HHS Scientist Dr. Francis S. Collins
• 11/13/2007—November 14 is United Nations World Diabetes Day
• 11/13/2007—Director of the HHS National Institutes of Health Director Brings Vision to France
• 11/12/2007—Global Fund Approves Seventh Round of Grants
• 11/07/2007—U.S. Department of Homeland Security Seeks Comment on Proposed Rule to Create Blanket Waiver of HIV Restriction on Non-Immigrant Visas
• 11/01/2007—HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt and Canadian Minister of Health Tony Clement Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Indigenous Health
• 11/01/2007—Health Leaders from United States, México and Canada Sign Declaration on Mutual Support During a Health Emergency

October

• 10/31/2007—President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Launches Public-Private Partnership with Becton, Dickinson
• 10/31/2007—HHS Secretary Delivers Speech on Countering Global Health Threats, Hosted by Woodrow Wilson Center’s Director’s Forum
• 10/29/2007—Health Leaders Meet in Washington, D.C., for Global Health Security Initiative Ministerial
• 10/25/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Participates in Gates Foundation Malaria Forum
• 10/23/2007—First Lady Laura Bush Travels to Middle East to Raise Awareness on Breast Cancer
• 10/22/2007—October 2007 Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Newsletter Now Available
• 10/19/2007—President Bush Discusses Fight Against Malaria With Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
• 10/12/2007—FDA Commissioner Meets with Chinese Minister of Health and Other Senior Chinese Government Officials on Import Safety, Discusses How They Can Work Together to Beat Disease, Ensure Safe Food, Effective Drugs:

  http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2007/ucm109006.htm

  (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
• 10/10/2007—USNS COMFORT Completes Mission to Latin America and the Caribbean Region
• 10/09/2007—HHS/CDC Scientists Deployed to Control Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 10/05/2007—U.S. Department of Labor Seeks Public Input on Anti-Trafficking Measure
• 10/03/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Central American Ministers of Health
• 10/01/2007—HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt Addresses 27th Pan American Sanitary Conference

September

• 09/28/2007—The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Newsletter for September 2007 Is Now Available
• 09/27/2007—U.S. Government Responds to Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 09/26/2007—President Bush Cites U.S. Work Against HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Pandemics in Address to the United Nations General Assembly
• 09/26/2007—U.S. Government Contribution to the Global Fund Exceeds $2.5 Billion (PEPFAR.gov)
• 09/25/2007—USS Peleliu Completes Its Humanitarian Mission in the Western Pacific
• 09/24/2007—Third Training of Central Americans Takes Place at the Regional Health-Care Training Center in Panamá City
• 09/18/2007—Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Releases Four-Year Strategy
• 09/18/2007—HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Launches Public Health Grand Rounds Webcast on Innovative Basic Care Package Provided in Uganda by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
• 09/17/2007—Fourth Team of HHS Commissioned Corps Officers Joins Humanitarian Mission of the USNS Comfort
• 09/14/2007—Statement by Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, On the United States-China Bilateral Meetings on Food and Drug Safety:

  http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/09/pr20070914a.html

• 09/11/2007—HHS Secretary and Mexican Secretary of Health Together Visit United States-México Border Region on Import Safety
• 09/10/2007—Clinicians and Hospital Administrators from the Commonwealth of Independent States Visit the United States
• 09/07/2007—The Republic of the Marshall Islands Welcomes the USS Peleliu
• 09/07/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Visits HHS Commissioned Corps Officers Aboard USNS Comfort in Haïti
• 09/04/2007—Director of HHS National Institutes of Health Meets with Representatives of the European Medical Research Council

August

• 08/31/2007—USS Peleliu’s "Pacific Partnership" Reaches the Solomon Islands
• 08/30/2007—HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt and U.S. Government Officials Complete Their Four-Country African Visit in Rwanda
• 08/30/2007—Visit of U.S. Delegation to Zanzibar Highlights Dramatic Drop in Illness After Introduction of the President’s Malaria Initiative
• 08/29/2007—Increased Funding and Innovative Strategies for Delivering Care Have Improved the Health of Thousands of Tanzanians, U.S. Delegation Finds
• 08/28/2007—First HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Pharmacist Serves Aboard USNS Comfort
• 08/27/2007—HHS Personnel Aboard the USS Peleliu Bring Assistance to Papua New Guinea
• 08/24/2007—Health Partnerships in Mozambique Supported by the American People Receive Visits from U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt and Other Senior U.S. Government Officials
• 08/23/2007—U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt and Delegation Visit Sites in Mozambique
• 08/22/2007—U.S. Officials Visit CAPRISA and the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa
• 08/21/2007—HHS Secretary and U.S. Delegation Visits Sites in South Africa Funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
• 08/21/2007—Two "Ask the White House" Online Events This Week
• 08/21/2007—North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza Announced
• 08/17/2007—Global Fund Technical Support Contract under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Awarded to Management Sciences for Health
• 08/15/2007—HHS Food and Drug Administration Grants Tentative Approval for 50th and 51st Anti-Retroviral Drugs under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
• 08/15/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt and Senior U.S. Government Delegation to Visit Africa
• 08/10/2007—HHS Team Goes Ashore with Mission of the USS Peleliu in Papua New Guinea
• 08/10/2007—HHS Team Assists in the Mission of the USNS Comfort in Perú
• 08/10/2007—August 2007 Newsletter for the President's Malaria Initiative Now Available
• 08/10/2007—HHS Experts Respond to Outbreak of Marburg Fever in Uganda
• 08/03/2007—HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Visits Oakland, California, on Fact-Finding Tour of U.S. Ports of Entry for Import

July

• 07/31/2007—HHS Delegation Heads to China for Fact-Finding Mission on Safety of Food, Feed, and Drugs
• 07/30/2007—July 2007 Newsletters for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Now Available
• 07/27/2007—HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Visits El Paso, Texas, in First Fact-Finding Tour of U.S. Ports of Entry for Imports
• 07/26/2007—Second HHS Team Joins the Mission of the USNS Comfort
• 07/25/2007—HHS/NIH Clinical Trial Suggests Treating HIV-Infected Infants Early Helps Them Live Longer
• 07/23/2007—Director of HHS Office of Global Health Affairs Issues Organizational Integrity Guidance for Leadership Act Grantees
• 07/20/2007—Health-Care Personnel on the USNS Comfort Provide Medical and Dental Care for the People of Nicaragua
• 07/19/2007—HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Heads Presidential Delegation of the United States for the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro
• 07/19/2007—U.S. Public Health Service Promotion Ceremony on the USNS Comfort
• 07/19/2007—Second Team of HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Officers Arrives on Board the USNS Comfort in Central America
• 07/19/2007—HHS Senior Officials Discuss Health Research and Health Care Reforms with Delegation from the Lithuanian Ministry of Health
• 07/19/2007—HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Officers Join Humanitarian Mission of the USS Peleliu in the Pacific
• 07/18/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Announces Revised International Health Regulations Enter into Force for the United States
• 07/17/2007—HHS Assistant Secretary for Health ADM John Agwunobi Discusses Pandemic-Influenza Preparedness Activities with Officials of the United Kingdom
• 07/13/2007—HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Heads Presidential Delegation of the United States for the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro:

  http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/07/pr20070713a.html

• 07/11/2007—Acting HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan Discusses Food Safety and Pandemic Influenza with Japanese Officials
• 07/10/2007—Secretary Leavitt Chairs Panel on Health Care at White House Conference on the Americas
• 07/09/2007—HHS/AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Participates in Panel Discussions at the Commonwealth Fund and Nuffield Trust 8th International Meeting to Improve Quality of Healthcare
• 07/02/2007—EFSA and FDA Strengthen Cooperation in Food Safety Science:

  http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2007/ucm108944.htm

  (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

June

• 06/30/2007—At Sea and on Shore with HHS Environmental Health and Engineering Officers on the Humanitarian Mission of the USNS Comfort to Latin America and the Caribbean
• 06/28/2007—USNS Comfort Mission to Latin America and Caribbean
• 06/26/2007—Webcasts of Sessions from the 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting Now Available
• 06/26/2007—U.S. Government Signs an Historic Agreement with the Republic of Cameroon
• 06/26/2007—HHS Assistant Secretary for Health ADM John Agwunobi Speaks at Inaugural Meeting of the Health Crises Contact Group
• 06/25/2007—HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Speaks at Inaugural Meeting of the Civil-Military Medicine Contact Group
• 06/25/2007—HHS Hosts Web Seminar for National HIV Testing Day
• 06/22/2007—USNS Comfort Sets Sail to 12 Ports
• 06/21/2007—Director of HHS National Institutes of Health Honored at the Academy of Achievement's 46th Annual International Achievement Summit
• 06/20/2007—Canada to Host the North American Leaders Summit in August 2007; Pandemic Influenza Preparedness on the Agenda
• 06/19/2007—First US-Brazil Working Group on Public Health Meets
• 06/18/2007— The Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Releases Two New Issue Briefs
• 06/15/2007—President Bush Orders the USNS Comfort to Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanitarian Mission (White House)
• 06/12/2007—U.S. State Department Releases 2007 Report on Human Trafficking
• 06/06/2007—HHS Researchers Launch New Efforts to Combat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
• 06/05/2007—President Bush Announces Five-Year, $30 Billion HIV/AIDS Plan
• 06/04/2007—Secretary of Health and Human Services Celebrates Opening of the Regional Health-Care Training Center in Panamá

May

• 05/24/2007—HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt and USDA Secretary Mike Johanns Discuss Food- and Drug- Safety Issues with Chinese Minister of Health Gao Qiang and Minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Li Changjiang
• 05/24/2007—World Health Assembly Agrees to Framework on Sharing Influenza Samples
• 05/23/2007—International Health Regulations (2005) Go Into Force This Summer
• 05/23/2007—HHS National Cancer Institute Launches Internet Site in Spanish
• 05/22/2007—Chinese Health Minister Gao Qiang and HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt Open Second United States-China Health-Care Forum
• 05/22/2007—HHS/NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Opens Clinical Oncology Workshop in Croatia
• 05/21/2007—Senior HHS Officials Host Visit of Chinese Health Minister to Alaska
• 05/18/2007—U.S. and Indian Health Research Agencies Renew the Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program
• 05/18/2007—U.S. Government Report on Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons Sent to the U.S. Congress
• 05/16/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Addresses the World Health Assembly
• 05/15/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Leads the U.S. Delegation at the World Health Assembly
• 05/14/2007—HHS/NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Speaks at Nobel Conference
• 05/07/2007—HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt Applauds WHO Vaccine Grants
• 05/04/2007—Former HHS Senior Official Dr. Cristina Beato Sworn In as Deputy Director of PAHO
• 05/04/2007—HHS/NIH/NIAID Partners with the Luso-American Development Foundation to Host a Research Meeting on Tuberculosis in Africa in October 2007
• 05/03/2007—HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt Testifies Before the U.S. Congress on Global Health

April

• 04/30/2007—HHS Joins International Partners to Promote Electronic Health Records Standards
• 04/20/2007—Assistant Secretary for Aging Carbonell Shares U.S. Home- and Community-Based Care Best Practices at Symposium in Nagoya, Japan
• 04/19/2007—President’s Emergency Plan Contributes to a Record Number of People on Anti-Retroviral Treatment
• 04/18/2007—HHS Convenes the Fourth Meeting of the Steering Group of the U.S.-Ireland Research and Development Partnership
• 04/18/2007—Central American Regional Health-Care Training Center Offers First Course in Panamá
• 04/13/2007—HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt Speaks at World Health Day Observance
• 04/02/2007—New Deadline for Third and Final Round of Applications under the New Partners Initiative of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

March

• 03/27/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Visits Central America to Advance Initiative to Improve Health Infrastructure
• 03/26/2007—HHS Secretary Makes Statement on WHO Pandemic-Influenza Action Plan to Increase Vaccine Supply
• 03/23/2007—World Tuberculosis (TB) Day Is March 24
• 03/23/2007—HHS Assistant Secretary for Health John Agwunobi Visits U.S.-México Border
• 03/22/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt and the Panamanian Minister of Health Sign Letter of Intent for Health-Care Training Center
• 03/22/2007—RADM W. Craig Vanderwagen Confirmed as HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
• 03/19/2007—U.S. Department of State Requests U.S. Embassies to Submit Proposals to Combat Trafficking in Persons
• 03/12/2007—HHS Secretary Meets with European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
• 03/09/2007—Third Annual Report Released on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
• 03/08/2007—President and First Lady Visit Latin America
• 03/07/2007—President Bush Announces a New Initiative for Social Justice in the Western Hemisphere
• 03/07/2007—U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Testifies on President’s Emergency Plan
• 03/06/2007—HHS’ Food and Drug Administration Offers Training for National Drug Regulatory Authorities
• 03/06/2007—HHS Leads U.S. Government’s Response to Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in the Republic of Kenya
• 03/06/2007—HHS Secretary Welcomes New Director-General of the World Health Organization

February

• 02/12/2007—President Bush Unveils Unprecedented Budget for Fight Against HIV/AIDS
• 02/12/2007—President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Releases New Issue Brief on Working with Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations
• 02/12/2007—Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Announces the 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting Will Take Place in Kigali, Rwanda
• 02/12/2007—Africa's First Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Study Launched
• 02/08/2007—Professor Michel Kazatchkine Selected as Executive Director of the Global Fund
• 02/07/2007—HHS and U.S. Departments of Agriculture and State Conduct United States-North African Food-Safety Regulatory Forum
• 02/07/2007—HHS Assistant Secretary for Health John Agwunobi Welcomes Belgian Health Minister Rudy Demotte
• 02/05/2007—HHS Secretary Meets with Delegation from the Republic of Georgia
• 02/02/2007—HHS/FDA Issues Tentative Approval of Another Version of Triple-Combination Drug to Treat HIV-1 Infection
• 02/01/2007—HHS Unveils Two New Efforts to Advance Pandemic Flu Preparedness:

  http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/20070201.html

January

• 01/30/2007—HHS Expert Dr. Bernard Nahlen Selected as Deputy Coordinator of the President’s Malaria Initiative
• 01/25/2007—Webcast of HHS/NIH/NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: Challenge to Global Health
• 01/24/2007—President Bush Outlines Future U.S. Government Efforts to Address the AIDS and Malaria Epidemics Globally
• 01/23/2007—HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Leads U.S. Delegation to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization
• 01/23/2007—HHS Deputy Secretary Praises the Accomplishments of the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement
• 01/22/2007—State Department Releases Interim Assessment on Human Trafficking Around the World
• 01/19/2007—HHS Funds the Advanced Development of Vaccines Against the H5N1 Influenza Strain
• 01/18/2007—Measles Initiative Surpasses Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths by 50 Percent
• 01/16/2007—Pandemic Influenza: Preparedness Planning for U.S. Businesses that Have International Operations
• 01/16/2007—HHS National Institutes of Health Reports that Women's Response to Anti-HIV Therapy Improves If Treatment Begins at Least Six Months After Earlier Preventive Regimen, Given During Childbirth
• 01/12/2007—HHS Secretary Leavitt Leads U.S. Delegation at Inauguration of Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
• 01/10/2007—HHS Seeks Advice on Allocating Pandemic Vaccine
• 01/10/2007—Implementation of the U.S. National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: Six-Month Status Report
• 01/10/2007—HHS Food and Drug Administration Issues Draft Risk Assessment on the Safety of Foods Derived from Cloned Animals and Their Offspring, and Asks for Public Comment
• 01/03/2007—Ambassador John E. Lange Leads U.S. Delegation to Bamako Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza

Last revised: March 24, 2010