Bloomberg Businessweek: How Booming Population Is Challenging Africa (Cohen et al., 5/17). Cour d’Alene Press: Advocates Hope for Idaho Support for Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Coles, 5/16). Devex: Q&A: How to change isolationist attitudes for SDG progress (Root, 5/16). The Guardian: Wellcome Trust investing £80m in…

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: Confronting the Silent Killer in Nepal Bethany Hall, scientific health communications fellow at CDC, discusses Nepal’s 2019 May Measurement Month campaign, which aims to increase access to blood pressure screening in an effort to prevent deaths and disability from noncommunicable diseases, and examines CDC’s and other…

Financial Times: U.K. cancer program to target treatment resistance “The Institute of Cancer Research in London has launched a £75m ‘anti-evolutionary’ drive that it says is the world’s first drug discovery program aimed specifically at tackling cancer’s lethal ability to evolve resistance to treatment. The ICR, part of the University…

Reuters: ‘Hidden health crisis’ of snakebites gets $100 million funding injection “A global health trust is to inject 80 million pounds ($102 million) into finding more modern and effective treatments for snakebites — a ‘hidden health crisis’ that kills 120,000 people a year and maims thousands more. The project, launched…

The Telegraph: We need an urgent global response to the plague of plastic David Attenborough, vice president of Fauna & Flora International “…[A] report published jointly by … Fauna & Flora International and others highlights for the first time the effect of plastic waste on the health of the world’s…

Al Jazeera: Inadequate health facilities failing Mozambique’s mothers (Marima, 5/14). Al Jazeera: Angola drought: Millions at risk of starvation (Mutasa, 5/14). Al Jazeera: ‘No other option’: Climate change driving many to flee Guatemala (Abbott, 5/13). Associated Press: U.N. humanitarian chief says 4.3 million in Cameroon need aid (Lederer, 5/13). The…

FT Health: Alcohol use jumps as battle against booze falters The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses global trends in alcohol consumption and the health risks it poses, as well as features an interview with Sigrid Kaag, minister for foreign trade and development cooperation in…

The Lancet: Offline: Time to radically rethink non-communicable diseases Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet “…[G]lobal health actions, although necessary, are not sufficient to achieve human health and wellbeing. Unless global health leaders reinterpret, resituate, and reactivate their advocacy and practice in the context of an urgent planetary emergency, their…

NPR: Study Shatters Preconceived Notions About Urban Vs. Rural Obesity “…A new paper in the May 8 journal Nature has shattered the preconceived notions of urban versus rural body types. More than 1,000 researchers representing the Non-Communicable Disease Coalition analyzed 2,009 studies of more than 112 million adults from 200…

The BMJ: Indian campaigners ask government to stop relying on handouts of bedaquiline to ensure supply (5/9). Deutsche Welle: World in Progress: Yemen’s forgotten humanitarian crisis (Steffen, 5/8). Devex: Q&A: Don’t be satisfied with ‘great progress,’ former UNICEF official warns (Lieberman, 5/9). Forbes: Antimicrobial Resistance Is Being Called A Sustainable…