Qrius: This drug can stop mothers bleeding to death in childbirth — so why can’t more women get it? “…While around 6 percent of women giving birth all over the world — in rich and poor countries alike — develop postpartum hemorrhage, 99 percent of deaths from it occur in…

The Hill: Democrat, Trump nominee have fiery exchange over abortion rights for rape victims “President Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva sparred with the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday over whether rape victims should be allowed to…

Foreign Policy: Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Killing Women, Report Says “…[T]he Trump administration brought back and expanded a Ronald Reagan-era policy — formally known as the Mexico City policy, but often called the ‘global gag rule’ by critics — that prohibits U.S. [global] health-related aid to foreign non-governmental organizations…

Refinery29: House Passes Spending Bill That Repeals The Global Gag Rule “The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pass a near $1 trillion spending package … Reproductive health advocates lauded H.R. 2740 as a victory for family planning and health care in general. The legislation permanently repeals the domestic…

Associated Press: More than 100 children die in India in encephalitis outbreak (6/18). BBC News: Low-income African countries ‘pay 30 times more’ for drugs (6/18). Devex: Q&A: Peter Sands on what it takes to create effective health systems (Lieberman, 6/18). Global Health NOW: Mercy Masoo, Leading the Way in WASH…

The Telegraph: Number of people forced to go to the toilet in the open cut by half “The number of people around the world forced to go to the toilet in the open has halved since 2000, according to new data. A report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF…

STAT: As global markets for generic drugs fail, poor people pay the price Rachel Silverman, policy fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), and Amanda Glassman, executive vice president at CGD and CEO of Center for Global Development Europe “Healthy competition from generic drugs is often held up as…

Agence France-Presse: In Afghanistan, conspiracy theories fuel polio outbreak (6/14). Agence France-Presse: Indian doctors to go on strike over workplace assaults (6/14). The Guardian: ‘I’ll never have another child’: the mothers failed by Mexico’s hospitals (Lakhani, 6/17). Health Policy Watch: New Resource Gateway Launched On Innovation & Access To Medicines…

Financial Times: Poor countries pay up to 30 times more for medicines “…The Washington-based Center for Global Development examined billions of dollars in spending by developing countries, concluding that low- and middle-income countries were paying 20 or 30 times more for medicines such as omeprazole, for heartburn, or paracetamol, a…

The Lancet: How should we listen to ECHO? Lisa Miyako Noguchi, associate in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Princess Nothemba Simelela, assistant director general for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health at the WHO “For many years before the long-awaited results of the…