Devex: Care amid conflict (Roby, 11/9). Global Health NOW: Countdown to Kigali: 5 Things to Watch for at #ICFP2018 (Myers, 11/8). Global Health NOW: Peter Hotez: It’s Time for Scientists to Speak Up for Science (Simpson, 11/6). Inter Press Service: Alert! Hunger and Obesity on the Rise in Latin America…

Center for Global Development: Entrepreneurship on the Rise in the Medical Supply Chain in Africa: A Tale of Four Pharmacy Disruptors In this analysis, Cassandra Nemzoff, research assistant with CGD Europe, Dan Rosen of AfRx Consulting Group, and Kalipso Chalkidou, director of global health policy and senior fellow at CGD,…

The Lancet: GBD 2017: a fragile world Editorial Board “Since The Lancet published the first Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) over 10 years ago, every new iteration has brought improvements in data quality and quantity. With the sharpening of these estimates came a reassuring message: year on year, they…

Devex: Ebola vaccine technology could speed up development of other vaccines (Ravelo, 11/5). Devex: A rising star of French aid? (Chadwick, 11/5). The Guardian: ‘They killed my children and raped me’: sexual violence remains rife in Congo (Burke, 11/2). Health Policy Watch: Multilateralism Key To Addressing Many Health Issues, Austrian…

Frontline Health Workers Coalition: Can the Astana Declaration Be a Turning Point to Finally Ensuring Primary Health Care for All? Vince Blaser, director of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and senior advocacy and policy adviser at IntraHealth International, discusses outcomes and policy implications from the Global Conference on Primary Health…

Wall Street Journal: Venezuela’s Health Crisis Is Crossing the Border “Contagion from Venezuela’s economic meltdown is starting to spread to neighboring countries — not financially, but literally, in the form of potentially deadly diseases carried among millions of refugees. The collapse of Venezuela’s health system has turned what was once…

PLOS Blogs: After Astana: The post-conference agenda for global primary health care Luke Allen, physician, Oxford academic clinical fellow, and global health analyst, provides a summary of topics discussed at the Global Conference on Primary Care in Astana, Kazakhstan. Allen writes, “Advancing primary health care — efficient, effective, and equitable…

CNBC Africa: Op-Ed: Protecting Africa’s invisible children, the case for birth registration and a digital identity Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, and Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF “…[T]o achieve truly universal [health care] access will involve the strengthening and expansion of primary health care (PHC) in…

Project Syndicate: Surgery for All Junaid Nabi, physician, public health researcher, and 2018 Aspen New Voices fellow “…One of the biggest obstacles to achieving universal health coverage … is financing. And, paradoxical as it may sound, one of the best ways that governments can get the money they need to…

FT Health: Health for all or health for some? The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter highlights the Astana declaration, which was endorsed last week at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, as well as features an interview with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who…