Project Syndicate: The Tragedy of Gaza’s Children Kevin Watkins, CEO of Save the Children U.K. “…The increasingly dire situation in Gaza — especially for children — is one of the world’s least reported humanitarian emergencies. … Basic services are disintegrating as fast as the economy. The health care system is…

Reuters: South Africa puts initial universal health care cost at $17 billion “South Africa published its draft National Health Insurance (NHI) bill on Thursday, with one senior official estimating universal health care for millions of poorer citizens would cost about 256 billion rand ($16.89 billion) to implement by 2022. The…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: When viral suppression didn’t last, lowering barriers to HIV treatment and care made a difference Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” discusses findings from a report published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on the “impacts of the Seattle Max Clinic’s enhanced efforts to retain…

The Telegraph: ‘Extensive discrimination’ means thousands of Indian women miss out on health care, experts warn “Women in India are missing out on health care because of ‘extensive gender discrimination,’ with the youngest and oldest most affected, researchers have found. According to a study of some 2.4 million patient appointment…

Associated Press: Groups: Yemen airport closure ‘death sentence’ for thousands “The Saudi-led coalition’s closure of the airport in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, has prevented thousands of sick civilians from traveling abroad for urgent medical treatment, two international aid groups said in a joint statement. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council and…

The Guardian: ‘We lose so many women’: the tragedy of unsafe abortion in Kibera “With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals, or other homemade remedies. The consequences can be fatal…” (McVeigh, 8/5).

The Telegraph: Fighting for breath: how we can win the battle against childhood pneumonia Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, and Kevin Watkins, chief executive of Save the Children U.K. “…[T]he most potent antidote to the ongoing crisis in child pneumonia can be summarized in three words: universal…

Global Health NOW: Saving Lives at Birth Starts with Quality Care, Everywhere Jacob Hughes, senior technical director and health systems practice lead for Management Sciences for Health “…As the Lancet Commission [for High Quality Health Systems] report points out, increasing access to health services alone is not enough to achieve…

Associated Press: Nicaragua declares alert over dengue fever (7/31). Nature: ‘Mosaic’ HIV vaccine to be tested in thousands of people across the world (Mega, 7/31). NBC News: Nigeria is on the brink of eliminating polio, thanks to women (Charles, 7/31). STAT: To mitigate the effects of climate change, one researcher…

Devex: How is North Korea coping with TB one year after Global Fund grant cuts? “Advocates working to address the tuberculosis burden in North Korea are calling on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to resume its grants in the country in the next two months to…