NK News: North Korea could face major tuberculosis medication shortage, NGO warns “North Korea could face a shortage of medication needed to treat drug-susceptible tuberculosis (TB) medication, the Eugene Bell Foundation NGO warned on Thursday, urging South Koreans to play a more active role in providing humanitarian aid to the…

Borgen Magazine: A New XDR Medicine Could Save Lives (Hwang, 10/16). CNBC Africa: Improving health outcomes in Africa (Awoniyi, 10/16). The Guardian: Did a ‘white savior’s’ evangelical zeal take a deadly turn in Uganda? (Mwesigwa/Beaumont, 10/17). Homeland Preparedness News: Scientists decode immune response of Ebola vaccine (Galford, 10/16). Miami Herald:…

Nature: Data on child deaths are a call for justice Michelle Bachelet, U.N. high commissioner for human rights and former president of Chile “The chances of newborns surviving to adulthood have never been greater: in the past 20 years, rates of childhood death have fallen by more than half. Nearly…

Global Health NOW: Fragile States Need Private Sector Allies Marian W. Wentworth, president and CEO of Management Sciences for Health “…When a country’s government is frozen by conflict, natural disasters, financial crisis, or another crippling event, its health care system is all too likely to follow. Health workers flee or…

Financial Times: Special Report: Universal Healthcare “World leaders have committed to introduce universal health coverage by 2030 as part of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. India’s ‘Modicare’ and Kenya’s ‘Afya Care’ are just two examples of countries striving towards this goal.” The special report includes an opinion piece on universal…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: OPINION: Gender counts: Why investing in data on girls means transforming the future Karin Hulshof, UNICEF regional director for East Asia and the Pacific, and Bjorn Andersson, UNFPA regional director for Asia and the Pacific “…While the challenge of gender inequality isn’t new, there has been little…

Borgen Magazine: Leaders Addressing Global Poverty in Five Ways (Blakeney, 10/12). CBS News: Doctors Without Borders presses Johnson & Johnson to slash price of tuberculosis drug (Cerullo, 10/14). Devex: What could Canada’s Conservatives mean for foreign aid? (Halais, 10/15). Devex: Private sector on a ‘journey’ to engagement with the SDGs…

The Guardian: Simple eye care could improve sight of more than 1 billion people — report “More than 1 billion people are needlessly losing their sight because of a lack of simple eye care, according to a landmark report on vision by the World Health Organization. The research has revealed…

Associated Press: Report reveals widespread abuse of women during childbirth “A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated, or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. The study published…

Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign: MSF calls for new price of anti TB drug delamanid to be lowered and offered outside of South Africa “Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) acknowledges the lower price offered to the government of South Africa for newer anti tuberculosis (TB) drug, delamanid, but calls for it…