FT Health: Climate change is a public health problem The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses the impacts of heatwaves and climate change on health and features an interview with Pierre Meulien, director of the E.U. Innovative Medicines Initiative, in which he discusses the initiative’s…

The Lancet: Heatwaves and health Editorial Board “…The world is facing a true planetary health emergency. … [Heatwaves] exacerbate existing problems like drought and present profound risks to health. … Heatwaves increase deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and are also associated with more suicides. People at the extremes of…

DFID: U.K. aid raises the voices of grassroots HIV organizations “The U.K. [on Wednesday] has … committed to increase its support to help people in grassroots organizations keep HIV on the agenda in countries around the world. International Development Minister Alistair Burt made the announcement at the International AIDS Conference…

Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” and Rabita Aziz, writer at “Science Speaks” and senior global health policy specialist at IDSA, report from the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on “news, updates, and analysis of new research findings, evidence-based responses, and community action for global access…

Devex: Global Disability Summit targets faster progress on inclusive development “More than 800 delegates representing government, civil society, and the development community are convening today for the first Global Disability Summit, hosted by the British and Kenyan governments and the International Disability Alliance with the goal of generating new commitments…

Forbes: Shall There Be Strings Attached to Humanitarian Aid? Ewelina U. Ochab, human rights advocate and author “…[B]oth the Department for International Development (DFID) and UKAID in the U.K. and the USAID in the U.S. provide significant assistance to countries in need around the world, with Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, and…

Devex: How disability inclusive is DFID? “As the United Kingdom gears up to host the first Global Disability Summit, campaigners have praised the Department for International Development for improving its own policies around disability inclusion, but say there is more work to be done. Tuesday will see hundreds of disability…

European Commission: E.U. mobilizes more than € 191 million in humanitarian aid to Sahel countries “In the wake of the worst food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel over the last five years and continued uncertainty, the Commission has announced a humanitarian aid package worth EUR 191.3 million. … The…

Devex: Opinion: What does spending in the ‘national interest’ mean for U.K. aid? Romilly Greenhill, U.K. director of the ONE Campaign “U.K. aid is in a state of flux … Aid is increasingly being spent in ‘the national interest,’ through departments other than the U.K. Department for International Development. ……

FT Health: Thanksgiving or tough love for the U.K.’s NHS? The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses the U.K.’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service (NHS) and features an interview with Chris Elias, president of the global development division at the Gates Foundation, in which he discusses…