Associated Press: Pakistan launches another vaccination drive against polio (11/12). Associated Press: Myanmar: Bangladesh set to start repatriating Rohingya (11/11). Devex: Taking a systems-change approach to ending NTDs (Cheney, 11/12). The Guardian: Woman who bore rapist’s baby faces 20 years in El Salvador jail (Lakhani, 11/12). The Guardian: ‘They see…

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…

Financial Times: Africa’s warp-speed health revolution has an old threat David Pilling, Africa editor of the Financial Times “The leading killers of human beings are no longer the viruses, bacteria, and other microbes that have lurked for millennia in our sewage, in our domesticated animals, and in the parasites that…

U.N. News: Hunger and obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean compounded by inequality: U.N. report “For the third consecutive year, the number of those chronically hungry has increased in Latin America and the Caribbean, while 250 million — 60 percent of the regional population — are obese or overweight,…

Devex: Why almost no one in Nigeria is using HIV prevention drugs (Adepoju, 11/7). Devex: With less than 6 months to go, what are the plans for Bloomberg’s Data for Health? (Cornish, 11/7). The Guardian: Taxing red meat would save many lives, research shows (Carrington, 11/6). New York Times: In…

CNN: Global skin cancer deaths rising for men, but not women, study says (Avramova, 11/5). Nature: Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan (Van Noorden, 11/5). Newsweek: ‘Prophet’ Who Claimed To Discover HIV and Cancer Cure Secures Government Support for Clinical Trial (Brennan, 11/5). New York Times: Dogs Can…

PLOS Blogs’ “Global Health”: Moving forward together to accelerate action — all hands on deck! This post highlights an interview between Guy Fones, acting head and senior adviser at the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD), and Bente Mikkelsen, outgoing head of the…

WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The November 2018 WHO Bulletin features articles on various topics, including an editorial on results-based financing in health, an article on the need for more health workers to achieve universal health coverage, and research on the accuracy of diabetes screening methods used for…

Bloomberg: Caribbean Says Zika No Longer an Issue. Doctors Say Not So Fast (Ekstein, 11/1). MedPage Today: Malaria Hits Papua New Guinea Once Again (Lyles, 10/30). New York Times: How to Turbocharge Flu Protection (Llamas Required) (Zimmer, 11/1). Science: Nasal gene spray inspired by llama antibodies could prevent all types…

VOA News: Millions of Disaster Victims Miss Out on Humanitarian Aid “The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has issued an annual report that focuses on the millions of elderly, disabled, and vulnerable victims of natural and man-made disasters who fall through the humanitarian cracks and don’t…