WHO Regional Office for Europe: WHO’s strategic priorities in focus at Seventy-second World Health Assembly “The Seventy-second World Health Assembly runs from 20 to 28 May 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland. … [T]his annual gathering is attended by delegations from WHO Member States around the world, including the countries of the…

Associated Press: The Latest: U.S. backs reform efforts at U.N. health agency “The United States, the biggest contributor to the World Health Organization, says it supports efforts by the agency’s chief to restructure and find reforms in the organization’s budget. … U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services Alex Azar…

Associated Press: U.S. backs calls for Taiwan to get role at U.N. health assembly “The United States is backing calls for Taiwan to be granted observer status at the U.N. health agency’s biggest annual gathering, the U.S. health secretary said Monday. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar spoke…

Health Policy Watch: G7 Countries Prioritize Primary Health Care At Health Ministers’ Meeting In Paris “Health Ministers from G7 countries wrapped up a two-day meeting [Friday] in Paris that focused on strengthening primary health care, health inequalities for developing countries, and the elimination of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Entitled ‘Ensuring…

Nature: Vaccination lags behind in middle-income countries Seth Berkley, chief executive of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance “…[H]ow do we increase access to vaccines, primary health care, and other essential health interventions in countries that can — at least according to their gross national incomes — afford them? … Despite success…

The Conversation: Venezuela’s soaring murder rate has plunged the nation into a public health crisis José Manuel Aburto, PhD candidate at the Interdisciplinary Center on Population Dynamics at the University of Southern Denmark, and Jenny Garcia, PhD candidate at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED) “Over the past three decades,…

Center for Global Development: There is No Such Thing as Universal Health Coverage without… Cassandra Nemzoff, research associate at CGD’s Europe office, and Amanda Glassman, chief operating officer, senior fellow, and Board secretary at CGD, discuss outcomes from a U.N. multi-stakeholder hearing on universal health coverage (UHC), during which stakeholders…

Associated Press: U.N. ‘alarmed’ over migrant conditions in Yemen (5/2). The BMJ: Practicing medicine amid chaos in Venezuela (Zuñiga, 5/3). The Economist: The antibiotic industry is broken (5/2). Foreign Policy: ‘We Need a New Vision in Development’ (Hirsh, 5/1). Fortune: The WHO Has Diagnostic Codes for People Hit by Spacecraft…

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Friends’ President Joins Panel on the Future of Global Health Financing “On Thursday, April 25, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center held an event entitled, ‘The Future of Global Health Financing: Hope vs. Reality…

Quartz: More than 20 million kids miss out on the first dose of the measles vaccine every year “Amid news of serious measles outbreaks in several countries around the world, the United Nations Children Investment Fund (UNICEF) released a report [last] week showing that 21.1 million children miss out on…