Bloomberg Technology: Gates Sees Vaccine Technology Promise as Drug Resistance Rises (Patton, 4/18). Devex: Q&A: Gates experts on how to beat malaria with data (Cheney, 4/20). The Lancet Infectious Diseases: North Korea and the Global Fund (Burki, May 2018). The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Neglected tropical diseases: securing sustainability (Sansom, May…

Medicines Patent Pool: The Medicines Patent Pool Governance Board Appoints Charles Gore As New MPP Executive Director “The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) Governance Board today announced the appointment of Charles Gore, founder and former president of the World Hepatitis Alliance, as new MPP executive director. … Mr. Gore brings to…

PLOS Blog’s “Global Health”: Innovative thinking is key to realizing UHC Junaid Nabi, global health policy researcher and fellow in bioethics at Harvard Medical School, discusses the role and importance of exploring innovative technologies to expand primary health care services and achieve universal health coverage and other health-related Sustainable Development…

Wall Street Journal: After the Gas and Bombs: The Health Crisis That’s Killing Syria “This country’s seven-year war is fueling a parallel disaster: a crippling public-health catastrophe. Some 400,000 Syrians have died from bullets, bombs, or torture, including alleged recent gas attacks. More may have died as a result of…

Project Syndicate: Demystifying Menstruation Catherine Dolan, reader in anthropology at SOAS University of London; Julie Hennegan, postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Gabby Edlin, CEO and founder of Bloody Good Period “…Menstrual hygiene is essential to a woman’s health, education, mobility, and security, and…

Human Rights Watch: A Backward Step for Reproductive Rights in Chile In an opinion piece originally published in La Tercera, José Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas Division at HRW, discusses Chile’s revised abortion rules. Vivanco writes, “The Chilean government should review and amend the rules to ensure that…

New York Times: Legal Abortion in Argentina? A Long Shot Is Suddenly Within Reach “…[L]awmakers in Pope Francis’ homeland began considering legislation this past week that would allow women to have an abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. If backers of the measure succeed, Argentina would become the…

NPR: Syria Systematically Harasses Medical Aid Convoys “Amid suspected chemical attacks and shelling, medics treating nearly any injury in a conflict zone in Syria need supplies like anesthetics, IV catheters, syringes, and sterile surgical gloves. These items are routinely included in humanitarian aid shipments. But in February, they were among…

Devex: Opinion: Countries need to build National Health Equity Strategies. Here’s how. Eric A. Friedman, project leader for the Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health at the Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law “…As the persistence of deep health inequities demonstrates, progress…

Washington Post: North Korea has a big tuberculosis problem. It’s about to get worse. Jeremy Youde, student in global health and international relations at the Australian National University “A Bloomberg News report this week warned of the threat of North Korea’s ‘other weapon’ — tuberculosis. In February, the Global Fund…