Al Jazeera: Nigeria urged to ban chaining people with mental health issues (11/11). Borgen Magazine: Bill Gates on Decreasing Global Poverty (Dobson, 11/9). Deutsche Welle: Drug addiction in Russia: Draconian laws instead of help (Kauschanski, 11/11). Devex: A remote Congolese island offers a test case for improving the country’s health…

BMJ Opinion: Disruption in healthcare: how can it improve population health? Kendall Jamieson Gilmore, a HealthPros fellow based in Italy; Véronique Bos, a Health Pros fellow based in the Netherlands; and Margot Neveux, policy and projects coordinator at the World Obesity Federation, and all European Health Forum Young Gastein Scholars,…

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,…

IPS: Four Ways the African Development Bank Can Support a More Secure Africa Ifeanyi Nsofor, medical doctor, CEO of EpiAFRIC, and director of policy and advocacy for Nigeria Health Watch “…[T]he recent increment in the capital base of the African Development Bank by $125 billion to $208 billion, should be…

The Hill: Sexual and gender-based violence in the Congo — better tools are needed to battle it Tyler B. Evans, chief medical officer for the Santa Cruz County (California) Health Services Agency, associate professor at the University of Southern California, and member of the Global Outreach Doctors Board of Directors…

Al Jazeera: Can the world afford universal health care? (11/2). Borgen Magazine: The End Neglected Tropical Diseases Act (Gordon, 11/1). Devex: Q&A: James Love on the biggest challenges in the fight for affordable drugs (Green, 11/4). Devex: 5 myths drowning out progress on WASH (Root, 11/4). DW: Philippines struggling to…

GBCHealth: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene — A fundamental necessity of primary health services In this post for GBCHealth, Anthony Rock, principal at Global Water 2020, addresses inadequate WASH in primary health care facilities. Rock writes, “This challenge is solvable today, with the tools readily at our disposal. Leaders at national,…

WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The November 2019 WHO Bulletin features articles on various topics, including an editorial on monitoring adverse drug reactions in community settings, a research article on international corporate tax avoidance and domestic government health expenditure, and a research paper on tuberculosis prevalence in the…

Financial Times: Special Report: Universal Healthcare “World leaders have committed to introduce universal health coverage by 2030 as part of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. FT writers discuss the policies and innovations in technology that could help bring this about.” The special report includes a video on how technology is improving…

New York Times: An HIV Outbreak Puts Spotlight on Pakistan’s Health Care System “A pediatrician accused of reusing syringes and infecting [nearly 900] Pakistani children with HIV [in the small Pakistani city of Ratodero] is now practicing in a government-run hospital after his private clinic was shuttered, in a case…