The Lancet: Special Issue on Primary Health Care This special issue on primary health care is being launched at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, co-hosted by the Government of Kazakhstan, WHO, and UNICEF, which will bring together 1,200 leaders to endorse the Astana Declaration, 40 years after the…

PSI’s “Impact Blog”: Charting the Way Forward for the FP2020 Global Consensus Statement Sarah Anderson, communications intern with PSI, discusses the upcoming International Conference of Family Planning and progress on the FP2020 Global Consensus Statement. Anderson highlights results from surveys sent to 43 endorsing organizations that “have illuminated the statement’s…

The Guardian: Groundbreaking Australian HIV trial should be replicated, researchers say “High-income countries with people at high risk of HIV should replicate a groundbreaking trial in Australia, which has seen new infections [among men who have sex with men in New South Wales] fall by 25 percent in one year…

Washington Post: Letter to the Editor: Trump’s health policy does not protect life Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity “In the Oct. 11 front-page [Washington Post] article … there was an essential breach between the Trump administration’s words and the effect of its foreign policy. ……

Devex: All countries need to strengthen health systems, reproductive rights, UNFPA report says “Continued progress on decreasing fertility rates and family size is dependent on health systems providing universally accessible reproductive health services, according to the United Nations Population Fund 2018 ‘State of the World Population: The Power of Choice:…

New York Times: U.S. Bars American Aid Groups From Traveling to North Korea “The Trump administration has barred American aid workers from going to North Korea as it pressures Pyongyang to dismantle the country’s nuclear weapons program, according to humanitarian groups and a former United States ambassador. … North Korea…

Devex: Opinion: A new model of NCD care to achieve UHC in sub-Saharan Africa Nick Manuelpillai, medical adviser at the Joep Lange Institute “…In their current state, the health budgets of sub-Saharan African countries do not allow the region to adequately cover [noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)] care for the population. To…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Global Health Organizations Commit to New Ways of Working Together for Greater Impact “Eleven heads of the world’s leading health and development organizations [on Tuesday] signed a landmark commitment to find new ways of working together to accelerate progress towards achieving the…

NPR: Report: World Support For Mental Health Care Is ‘Pitifully Small’ “It’s a major milestone in the fight to recognize mental health and mental illness as global issues: a comprehensive report from the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health, three years in the making, released this past week at a…

Devex: MSF staff outline grave dangers to refugees after Nauru halts mental health services “A day after Médecins Sans Frontières condemned Nauru for halting ‘desperately needed’ mental health services on the island, the government has hit back, accusing the organization of being ‘political activists’ who worked to advance their ‘political…