UNFPA: As Nairobi Summit opens, leaders express optimism and urgency in securing rights for all “More than 6,000 world leaders, scholars, advocates, faith leaders, and others converged on the Kenyatta International Conference Centre [Tuesday] to attend the first day of Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, which calls for action to end…

Associated Press: Chinese company in vaccine scandal declared bankrupt (11/8). CNN: First native Zika cases in Europe confirmed as experts warn climate change could bring more (Picheta, 11/7). Homeland Preparedness News: KSU-developed model accurately predicted Ebola spread into Uganda (Galford, 11/7). IPS: Nearly Half of Nepali Children Still Malnourished (Awale,…

UNICEF: Increase in child and adolescent mental disorders spurs new push for action by UNICEF and WHO “With the alarmingly high rates of self-harm, suicide, and anxiety among children and young people around the world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization are teaming up with some of the world’s leading…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Keep girls in schools to end hunger and poverty, Sachs tells governments “Keeping girls in schools in Africa is key to lowering the fast-growing continent’s high fertility rates and ultimately ending hunger and poverty, U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs said Wednesday. … Africa currently has the world’s highest…

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…

HuffPost: British Aid Is Transforming Girls’ Lives Across The World. But There’s More We Can Do Alok Sharma, secretary of state for international development of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP for Reading West “…[D]espite the progress we are making, millions of girls around the world are still being left…

U.N. News: World Mental Health Day sheds light on worrying rates of youth suicide “Worldwide, 800,000 people die by suicide each year — one every 40 seconds — making it the second leading cause of death among young people (aged 15 to 29), the World Health Organization (WHO) said on…

AFP: 10-fold surge in S.Africa teens treated for HIV: study “The number of young people in South Africa receiving treatment for HIV has increased 10-fold within a decade, a major new study has found. … Researchers studied more than 700,000 young people receiving treatment for the infection and found 10…

AFP: WHO welcomes Taliban decision to lift ban on health workers (9/26). CIDRAP News: Study implicates Asian Zika strain in African microcephaly cases (Schnirring, 9/26). Devex: Q&A: Putting health workers at the center of global health goals (9/27). Devex: Are there enough cases to declare a malaria epidemic in Burundi?…

Xinhua: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation calls for efforts to narrow global inequality gap “Bill and Melinda Gates co-hosted the third annual Goalkeepers event [in New York] on Wednesday, highlighting the critical importance of closing the global inequality gap to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). … Three…