Devex: Global Fund claims last-minute victory on $14B replenishment target “The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said it secured its $14 billion funding target at its replenishment conference Thursday, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the French government upping their earlier pledges to get donors…

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…

TIME: Bill Gates Makes Hopeful Predictions for Global Health “Bill Gates told an audience at the University of Cambridge on Monday that global malnutrition will be solved and malaria will be virtually eliminated by 2040 if world leaders choose to fund scientific innovation. Speaking at the Cambridge Union in England,…

The Telegraph: Probiotic pills could bring an end to malnutrition, says billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates “Probiotic pills could hold the key to ending malnutrition across the globe within the next two decades, according to the billionaire Bill Gates. Probiotics, or ‘good’ bacteria, are thought to help maintain a healthy gut…

The Telegraph: Burying Africa’s ‘equipment graveyards’: £50m program launched to reduce newborn deaths with better tech “…On Friday, a £50m initiative was launched to provide more effective neonatal equipment for every hospital in Malawi, along with a handful in Tanzania, Uganda, and Nigeria — 54 in total. The program –…

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…

Washington Post: Child death rates are down. It’s cause for optimism. Editorial Board “Humankind knows no greater tragedy than the death of a small child. Thanks to quiet but powerful progress in public health, that tragedy is far less common than it once was — including in the planet’s developing…

Business Day: Private sector support for achieving critical development goals is a huge opportunity for business Mark Suzman, chief strategy officer and president, global policy & advocacy at the Gates Foundation “It’s difficult to understand an enormous number such as $2.5 trillion. To put it in context, it’s about the…

Forbes: Bill Gates and Two African Billionaires Say Family Planning is Essential to Africa’s Future “Bill Gates, the second richest person in the world; Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa; and Mohammed ‘Mo’ Ibrahim, a U.K billionaire born in Sudan, spoke about ways Africa can reach its potential in…

The Guardian: Dismay at Gates Foundation prize for Narendra Modi 37 development academics and practitioners “As international development academics and practitioners we are dismayed that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) intends to give its Goalkeepers Global Goals award to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on 24 September despite…