Bloomberg: Obesity Is Now Africa’s Health Care Crisis, Too Kasumi Iwase, managing director of AfricaScan Inc. “When it comes to health issues in Africa, people think of chronic hunger, or infectious diseases such as malaria or HIV/AIDS. But Africa is simultaneously struggling with an increase in noncommunicable diseases, most of…

World Economic Forum: This cheap, 700-year old solution could change billions of lives James Chen, founder of Clearly, discusses the importance of eye health and the private sector’s role in providing eye health care to employees, noting, “The implications of primary eye health care and glasses in helping older workers…

Associated Press: Expert urges U.N. remedies for lead poisoning victims “A human rights expert on Wednesday urged the United Nations to take ‘immediate action’ to provide justice and remedies to displaced minority communities in Kosovo who were sheltered on lead-contaminated wasteland. … Forced from their homes in Mitrovica, in northern…

CIDRAP News: DRC reports 2 new Ebola cases; study notes seroprevalence in region (Schnirring, 3/13). CIDRAP News: MERS-CoV infects 2 more in Saudi Arabia, 102 this year (Schnirring, 3/12). The Guardian: Fake drugs kill more than 250,000 children a year, doctors warn (Sample, 3/11). Nature: Nearly half of global childhood…

Newsweek: Air Pollution Is Killing More People Than We Thought “Air pollution could be killing 8.8 million people worldwide each year — almost double the figure previously thought, that’s according to the authors of a study, who said their findings highlighted the ‘urgent and important’ need to tackle the issue.…

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…

Al Jazeera: 19 million Yemeni children suffer malnutrition and illness (Javaid, 3/8). CBS News: “Our children are forgotten”: Zika’s devastating impact lingers 3 years later (Adams, 3/8). Financial Times: Chile’s sugary food fight echoes around the world (Jacobs, 3/10). The Guardian: China database lists ‘breedready’ status of 1.8 million women…

Devex: Opinion: 7 issues gaining momentum in global health José Luis Castro, president and CEO of Vital Strategies and executive director of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease “…As global attention to public health issues continues to gain momentum in 2019, here are seven issues and trends that…

Devex: New WHO structure revealed “The World Health Organization has revamped its senior management structure. The revamp, laid out in an internal memo sent to staff and seen by Devex, includes the creation of new positions and divisions which will help WHO achieve its triple billion targets in its new…

Agence France-Presse: Sri Lanka in bold bid to flush out open defecation (3/5). Agence France-Presse: Survivor antibody clears path for new Ebola vaccine (3/4). Agence France-Presse: Niger launches campaign to protect 6 mn children from meningitis (3/5). Al Jazeera: Colombia border hospitals struggle with Venezuelan migrant influx (Grattan, 3/5). CIDRAP…