Media/Policy Watch
This section is intended to alert readers to substantive news, analysis and opinion from the general media on vaccines, immunization, global; public health and related themes. Media Watch is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicative of themes and issues CVEP is actively tracking. This section will grow from an initial base of newspapers, magazines and blog sources, and is segregated from Journal Watch above which scans the peer-reviewed journal ecology.
We acknowledge the Western/Northern bias in this initial selection of titles and invite suggestions for expanded coverage. We are conservative in our outlook in adding news sources which largely report on primary content we are already covering above. Many electronic media sources have tiered, fee-based subscription models for access. We will provide full-text where content is published without restriction, but most publications require registration and some subscription level.

AP (Associated Press)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME?SITE=AP
Accessed 6 December 2014 Dec 5, 1:22 PM EST
Sierra Leone seeing 80-100 new Ebola cases daily
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sierra Leone said Friday that between 80 and 100 new cases of Ebola are being reported every day and the country now hardest-hit by the deadly virus desperately needs over 1,000 beds to treat victims.
Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister Kaifalah Marah painted a grim picture to the U.N. Economic and Social Council Friday of the challenges facing his West African nation which failed to meet a World Health Organization interim goal of isolating 70 percent of Ebola patients and safely burying 70 percent of victims by Dec. 1…

Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/
Accessed 6 December 2014
Transcript
DC Event: Launch of the CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force Report on the Emerging Global Health Crisis of Noncommunicable Diseases
with Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., Thomas E. Donilon, Thomas J. Bollyky, Massimo F. T. Calabresi December 5, 2014
Experts discuss the newly published Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)-sponsored Independent Task Force on Noncommunicable Diseases, which assesses the NCD crisis in developing countries and recommends a practical, scalable strategy for intervention.

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Accessed 6 December 2014
Chronic Diseases Are Killing More in Poorer Countries
4 December 2014
Chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease are rising fast in low- and middle-income countries, striking far younger populations than in rich countries and causing much worse outcomes, according to a new report. Deaths from chronic diseases have risen by more than 50 percent in low- and middle-income countries over the past two decades, according to the report (The Emerging Global Health Crisis), by the Council on Foreign Relations. The increase is part of a shift in global mortality patterns in which infectious diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, have declined substantially and are no longer the leading cause of death in the developing world.

Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/home-page?_wsjregion=na,us&_homepage=/home/us
Accessed 6 December 2014
Haider Javed Warraich: The Measles Outbreak Coming Near You
Parents who won’t vaccinate their children are reviving once-dead diseases. Will a vaccine mandate be needed?

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Accessed 6 December 2014
U.S. designates 35 hospitals to treat Ebola patients
President Obama says the fight against Ebola in West Africa “is not even close to being over.”
Lena H. Sun | Health & Science | December 2, 2014