Devex: Opinion: Tobacco is a huge health threat. So why aren’t we doing more about it? Ryan Forrest, policy and advocacy officer at the Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control, and Francis Thompson, executive director at the FCA “…This October, governments who are parties to the global tobacco control treaty…

Associated Press: Survey of 104 countries says 1.3 billion live in poverty (9/20). BMJ: Pandemrix vaccine: why was the public not told of early warning signs? (Doshi, 9/20). City Press: How the mining industry is dealing with the fight against TB (Sangqu, 9/21). Devex: How Colombia battled big tobacco and…

The Lancet: NCD Countdown 2030: strengthening accountability Editorial Board “One of the most powerful forces to emerge from the MDG era has been the idea of accountability. … Governments prefer mutual accountability. But … [w]hat is needed is independent accountability … This week, The Lancet, in collaboration with public health…

Devex: Ripple Effect: The Expansive Impact of NCDs “Noncommunicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, responsible for a staggering 70 percent of global deaths. The vast majority of those deaths, about 80 percent, occur in low- and middle-income countries, making the prevention and treatment of NCDs one of…

CNN: Globally, losing the fight against cancer and other chronic diseases “More than half of all U.N. countries will fail to honor their commitment to reduce premature deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes by 2030, a new analysis predicts. … Published Thursday in the medical journal…

Devex: Opinion: TB, NCDs, and resilient health systems for all Mandy Slutsker, policy and advocacy manager for ACTION at RESULTS and co-chair of the TB High-Level Meeting Civil Society and Affected Communities Advisory Panel, and Aaron Emmel, manager of global health advocacy initiatives for the American Academy of Pediatrics and…

Agence France-Presse: U.N. seeks to open air bridge to aid Yemeni cancer patients: WHO “The United Nations is working to open a humanitarian air bridge to take Yemeni cancer patients for treatment at qualified facilities, WHO country representative for Yemen Nevio Zagaria said Sunday. ‘The aim is to help patients…

Devex: 6 conversations you missed at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (Rogers/Ravelo, 9/14). The Guardian: Affordable vaping for smokers in poor countries branded ‘a human rights issue’ (Austin, 9/14). The Guardian: ‘A lurking beast’: polio casts shadow over Papua New Guinea independence day (Martin/Lyons, 9/15). The Guardian: ‘She didn’t…

FT Health: Cancer and quackery The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses crowdfunding cancer therapies, alternative therapies, and the WHO’s recent report on cancer rates worldwide. The issue also features an interview with Wilbert Bannenberg, president of the Dutch Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation, “on his plans…

Devex: Opinion: Why diabetes in pregnancy should be on the agenda at U.N. meetings Katja Iversen, president and CEO of Women Deliver, and Leif Fenger Jensen, first managing director of the World Diabetes Foundation “…[M]any governments and health authorities have not yet made the prevention, screening, and treatment of diabetes…