CIDRAP News: WHO reveals delayed pick for H3N2 flu vaccine strain (Schnirring, 3/21). Devex: Q&A: Why the world needs science and partnerships to tackle TB (3/22). EURACTIV.com: Public health activists say eradicating tobacco must be a human right (Michalopoulos, 3/22). The Guardian: U.N. to explore wave of deaths linked to…

CNN: Democracy is good for your health Tom Bollyky, director of the global health program at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Tara Templin, health policy Ph.D. student at Stanford University “…Together with colleagues from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Bilkent University, we published a study in…

New York Times: ‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters “…To maintain their hold over Venezuela, [President Nicolás] Maduro and his supporters have often used the nation’s economic collapse to their advantage, dangling food before hungry voters, promising extra subsidies if he won, and demanding…

Agence France-Presse: Niger sounds alarm over ‘fake’ meningitis vaccine (3/15). The BMJ: Overcoming vaccine hesitancy: five minutes with … Heidi Larson (Silberner, 3/18). Ethiopian News Agency: Ministry Launches National Action Plan for Health Security (3/15). Quartz: The British Medical Journal is the latest group to drop the baby formula industry…

Agence France-Presse: C-section 50 times more deadly for women in Africa: study “The death rate among women undergoing a C-section to deliver a baby is about 50 times higher in Africa than in most wealthy nations, researchers said Friday. One in 200 women perished during or soon after a caesarean…

Bloomberg: Democracies Top Dictatorships for Public Health, New Study Finds “People lived longer in countries that became democracies from 1970 to 2015, and that system of government played a bigger role in public health than economic performance, according to a report published in The Lancet. The report, published Wednesday, found…

BBC News: Tunisian health minister resigns over 11 baby deaths (3/10). CIDRAP News: New attack, case in high-risk village among latest Ebola perils (Schnirring, 3/11). CIDRAP News: Sewage study highlights global antimicrobial resistance disparity (Dall, 3/11). Dallas News: Ethiopians didn’t have a term for ‘stroke,’ so this Dallas doctor created…

UNAIDS: Africa — Achieving health coverage without compromising on quality “Momentum for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa is building and many African countries have already integrated UHC into their national health strategies. But with 11 million Africans pushed into extreme poverty each year because of out-of-pocket health expenses, how…

Devex: Venezuela border standoff strains humanitarian response in Cúcuta “The border closure between Colombia and Venezuela is straining humanitarian response efforts as organizations on the Colombian side work to meet the needs of migrants and refugees who can no longer move freely between the two countries. The border has remained…

Bloomberg: Life-Saving Drones Fly Medicine to Tanzania’s Remotest Spots (Karuri, 3/7). The BMJ: Health organizations are slow to tackle gender inequality in workforce, report finds (O’Dowd, 3/7). CIDRAP News: Neighborhood antibiotic use tied to risk of resistant bacteria (Dall, 3/7). CNBC Africa: Assessing Nigeria’s moves to contain disease outbreaks (3/7).…