Brookings Institution: Great Transitions: Doubling down on the Sustainable Development Goals “This year has exposed the world’s extraordinary fragility. Managing a pandemic is hard enough. Doing so while addressing other urgent stresses — like inequality, violence, and climate change — adds to the degree of difficulty. What should be done…

BMJ Opinion: Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response begins with answering the question: where are the women? Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), and colleagues (11/20). Think Global Health: Tackling the World’s Most Vexing Diseases Through Data Lauren A. Do, research assistant…

Global Citizen: Why Access to Clean Water Is Essential in the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases Sarah El Gharib, freelance writer and French editor at Global Citizen (11/19). Water Science Policy: Who Wouldn’t Want a Bluetooth Toilet? Stephen Hilton, technical research assistant at Global Water 2020 (11/19). WHO: World Toilet…

The Lancet Global Health: No man left behind Editorial Board “…International Men’s Day, celebrated on Nov. 19, encourages us to consider all we still need to do to improve men’s health and wellbeing. The event seems especially pertinent this year, given findings that about 1.5 times more men than women…

Devex: Is climate finance diverting from development assistance? “…Due to a lag in reporting, it will take another two years to know for sure whether high-income countries have met their commitment to provide $100 billion of climate finance to lower-income countries per year by 2020. Even if they officially reach…

The Conversation: Millions of people are on treatment for HIV: why are so many still dying? Gilles van Cutsem, honorary research associate with the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research at the University of Cape Town (11/17). Devex: Opinion: Demonstrating leadership for racial equality in development Victoria Cooper, senior…

Global Citizen: How Pharmaceutical Companies Have Helped Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases Around the World Sarah El Gharib, freelance writer and French editor at Global Citizen (11/13). Global Voices: The victims of forced sterilizations in Peru continue to demand justice Adriana Hildenbrand, Miryam Rivera Holguin, and Teodora C. Hasegan, all of…

Devex: Progress in health and education slows in Africa while social protections deteriorate “Overall gains made in health and education are slowing on the African continent and progress on social protection is deteriorating, according to a decade’s worth of data on African governance compiled and analyzed by the Mo Ibrahim…

The Conversation: Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, associate professor and director of research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I at the University of the Witwatersrand (11/15). Devex: Opinion: Why evaluation is key to rebuilding better and achieving the 2030 Agenda Anthony…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Financing for global goals under threat just when most needed, says OECD head “The COVID-19 crisis has pushed to $4 trillion this year’s shortfall in funding needed for developing nations to meet global goals to end poverty and hunger by 2030, throwing them further off track, a…