TIME: This Freshman Congresswoman Wants to Restore U.S. Funding to U.N. Reproductive-Health Agency “When Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan first came to Washington, D.C. nine months ago, the Air Force veteran knew she wanted to carve out a policy niche in promoting women’s rights both domestically and internationally. On Thursday, she…

Mother Jones: The Climate Change Solution Scientists Have Been Overlooking “Overpopulation is a major contributor to climate change, but according to new research, a solution is lying in plain sight: increased access to effective contraceptives. ‘Global climate change represents a grave threat to the future of human welfare and our…

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…

Associated Press: WHO anti-cholera vaccination campaign begins in Sudan (10/11). Devex: Q&A: Plan International CEO on a pervasive obstacle to gender equality (Lieberman, 10/10). The Guardian: ‘I’ve read how people get catfished’: sex education around the world (Griffin et al., 10/11). The Telegraph: Hairy Heroes: Why you’ll never hate rats…

Devex: Planned Parenthood Global must be ‘critical voice of dissent’ to Trump, new director says “Planned Parenthood Global, the international arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, announced on Wednesday that Monica Kerrigan, an expert in family planning and sexual reproductive health, will become the organization’s new executive director at…

AFP: Iran HIV protests: 300 infections from one needle called ‘statistically inconceivable’ (10/8). Al Jazeera: Yemen fuel shortage: health concerns rise as rubbish piles up (al-Attab, 10/9). Associated Press: Save the Children warns of cholera spike in Yemen’s north (10/9). Becker’s Hospital Review: Bill Gates: Funding scientific innovation would end…

ABC: Predicting — and preventing — future pandemics (Swan/Bullen, 10/7). AFP: Edible sensor helps TB patients take their meds: study (10/4). Al Jazeera: WHO to hold Philippines summit after polio outbreak (Alindoga, 10/7). Bloomberg: Female Leadership in Global Health (10/4). CNN: Half of India couldn’t access a toilet 5 years…

Project Syndicate: Closing the Opportunity Gap in the Sahel Annette Dixon, vice president of Human Development at the World Bank Group, and Hafez Ghanem, vice president of the World Bank for Africa “…The countries of the Sahel rank among the world’s lowest on the Human Capital Index, which quantifies the…

BBC: Leishmaniasis: Tropical skin disease afflicts Kenyan communities (Juma et al., 10/2). DW: The 77 Percent — The need to tackle Nigeria’s population boom (Krippahl, 10/1). The Lancet HIV: Populism threatens Brazil’s HIV/AIDS response (Daniels, October 2019). New Humanitarian: Ten reports from U.N. General Assembly week worth noting (Parker, 10/1).…

GOV.UK: U.K. will step up efforts to end preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children in the developing world by 2030 “A commitment has been made to prioritize ending preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies, and children in the developing world by 2030. To achieve this, U.K. aid will…