Al Jazeera: WHO: Deadly plague breaks out on Uganda-Congo border (3/14). Borgen Magazine: The Road to Defeating Rotavirus Diarrhea (O’Brien, 3/17). Devex: Inside the largest hub for global humanitarian medical aid in the U.S. (Cheney, 3/18). Health Policy Watch: DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease (Schlesinger,…

BBC News: Concerns over global resurgence of measles (3/14). Devex: WHO launches new guideline for community health workers (Roby, 3/14). The Guardian: ‘There is no tomorrow for me’: Rwanda’s teen mothers — in pictures (Allen-Story, 3/15). IRIN: Failed aid gambit deepens crisis for Venezuelans at closed Colombia border (Collins, 3/14).…

UNAIDS: Promises to improve health outcomes for people who inject drugs remain unfulfilled as 99 percent do not have adequate access to HIV and harm reduction services “A report released [Wednesday] by UNAIDS shows that despite a decline in new HIV infections globally, HIV incidence is not declining among people…

Health Affairs: Donor Transitions From HIV Programs: What Is The Impact On Vulnerable Populations? Robert Hecht, president of Pharos Global Health Advisors; Kelly Flanagan, associate program officer at Pharos Global Health Advisors; Hanna Huffstetler, associate in research with the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Center for Policy Impact…

The Hill: Another decade lost to the global war on drugs Helen Clark, member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy “…Rather than eradicating drugs, prohibition is empowering and enriching organized crime groups. The combined impact of the drug war-fueled criminality, violence, and corruption ranges from harm in U.S. cities…

Project Syndicate: Bangladesh’s Deadly War on Drugs Naomi Burke-Shyne, executive director of Harm Reduction International “…[Under the Bangladesh authorities’ draft law submitted to Parliament,] possession of more than five grams of ‘yaba’ — a methamphetamine-based drug targeted by the government’s crackdown — could be punishable by death. … Despite what…

CNN: Report says the U.N.’s global ‘war on drugs’ has been a failure “The United Nations’ drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), which has called for a major rethinking of global policy on…

Center for Strategic & International Studies: Global Health Policy Center Monthly Newsletter: October 2018 In the October 2018 CSIS Global Health Policy Center Newsletter, J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of CSIS and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, highlights publications, podcasts, and past and upcoming events hosted…

BMJ Opinion: Why doctors should support regulated markets in illicit drugs Michel Kazatchkine, doctor and former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis; Pavel Bém, doctor and former mayor of Prague and drug czar of the Czech Republic; Helen Clark, former minister of health and…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: A Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem This blog post highlights Twitter posts related to a meeting on the Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem held Monday during the 73rd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly and chaired…