30 Dec 2011
Smoking accounts for 1 in 5 adult male deaths in India and 1
in 20 female deaths ages 30-69, but there is currently a scarcity of
research on how taxation of cigarettes and bidis - thin, handrolled cigarettes - would affect tobacco use patterns
in India. A recent NBER working paper by
CDDEP post-doctoral scholar Arindam Nandi and co-authors attempts to address
this gap by analyzing the price elasticities associated with both bidi and
cigarette purchases.
21 Dec 2011
It’s
been a fall of mixed news on antibiotic use in the agricultural industry in the
United States. Advocates of restricting the practice balked at the FDA’s rejection, in
November, of two citizen petitions enlisting the agency’s help in banning
certain uses of antibiotics for livestock due to concerns about emerging
antibiotic resistance.
16 Dec 2011
ReAct - Action on Antibiotic Resistance, cosponsor of the 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections, have just posted some follow-up resources from the conference, including videos of Otto Cars's sessions. Dr.
15 Dec 2011
Last week CDDEP, in collaboration with the
Development Impact Evaluation Initiative of the World Bank, the Spanish Impact
Evaluation Fund, the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) at the
Global Fund, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), hosted a workshop on Innovations in Health Care Financing and
Service Delivery: Making Malaria Treatment Available.
9 Dec 2011
The GrantWatch blog at Health Affairs has a new post detailing some initiatives from CDDEP's Extending the Cure project: antibiotic use visualizations on ResistanceMap and the Drug Resistance Index. An excerpt of the post is below - read it in its entirety on the Gran
