The following blogs review multiple global health issues addressed over 2013.

The Gates Notes: Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013
“I thought I would share a different kind of list: some of the good news you might have missed. I’ve limited my list to global health and development, where Melinda and I spend a lot of time, but even so, there’s a lot to report. If you measure progress by the number of children who die of preventable causes, or by the number of people who escape extreme poverty — as I do — then 2013 was definitely a good year,” Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation writes, and he reviews several issues, including polio and child mortality (12/23).

USAID Global Health News: A Year in Review: 2013 Highlights in Global Health
“Join us in celebrating some of the accomplishments the global health community has seen in the past year. We look forward to 2014 and many more successes to come!” The e-mail alert includes links to resources on several global health milestone events and stories of 2013, including the global newborn conference, 10 years of PEPFAR and replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (December 2013).