The National: Fake U.S. vaccine scheme to catch Bin Laden was ‘huge mistake’ “The United States made a ‘huge mistake’ by launching a fake immunization program in its quest to find Osama bin Laden, an expert seeking to eradicate polio has claimed. Chris Elias, president of the Global Development Division…

BMJ Opinion: Global health disruptors This collection of articles on global health disruptors contains articles on various topics including climate change, noncommunicable diseases, urban development, the digital revolution, the global health care market, research and development, China’s Belt and Road initiative, the erosion of multilateralism, SARS and Ebola, the Bill…

Financial Times: Bill Gates: from software to toilets Simon Kuper, columnist for the Financial Times “…Only 27 percent of the world’s population has a home toilet that sends waste to sewers, then on to a treatment plant, estimates the World Health Organization. Three people in 10 have neither toilets nor…

Gates Notes: Why the world deserves a better toilet Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, highlights the foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet challenge, his participation in the Reinvented Toilet Expo recently held in Beijing, and several technologies that aim to address the challenge of lack of access…

Associated Press: Pakistan launches another vaccination drive against polio (11/12). Associated Press: Myanmar: Bangladesh set to start repatriating Rohingya (11/11). Devex: Taking a systems-change approach to ending NTDs (Cheney, 11/12). The Guardian: Woman who bore rapist’s baby faces 20 years in El Salvador jail (Lakhani, 11/12). The Guardian: ‘They see…

The Lancet: Framing an agenda for children thriving in the SDG era: a Lancet Commission on Child Health and Well-Being Awa Coll-Seck, minister of health and social action in Senegal, and colleagues “…WHO and UNICEF have initiated a Lancet Commission on Child Health and Well-Being, with support from the Bill…

Devex: Donors put up $1B for Global Financing Facility, with notable absences “Donors have agreed to put an additional $1 billion into the Global Financing Facility to improve health and nutrition for women, children, and adolescent girls in low-income countries. However, the sum raised at a replenishment conference in Norway…

Associated Press: With poo on a pedestal, Bill Gates talks toilet technology “Placing a jar of feces on a pedestal next to him, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates made a plea Tuesday for the safe disposal of human waste as he kicked off a ‘Reinvented Toilet’ Expo in China. … The…

CNN: Global skin cancer deaths rising for men, but not women, study says (Avramova, 11/5). Nature: Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan (Van Noorden, 11/5). Newsweek: ‘Prophet’ Who Claimed To Discover HIV and Cancer Cure Secures Government Support for Clinical Trial (Brennan, 11/5). New York Times: Dogs Can…

Reuters: Melinda Gates urges backing for ‘human capital’ of mother and child health “Millions of women and babies could avoid untimely deaths if international donors step up to replenish a global health fund so it can expand to 50 countries, the philanthropist Melinda Gates said on Tuesday. The co-chair of…