Borgen Magazine: Gene Therapy to Possibly Cure Sickle Cell Disease in Africa (Shores, 11/20). Borgen Magazine: How World Organizations Fight the Health Crisis in African Countries (Kuzel, 11/19). Borgen Magazine: How Technology is Advancing Global Healthcare (Hudson, 11/19). Borgen Magazine: The United States’ Fight Against Locusts in East Africa (Scalora,…

WHO: WHO announces certification program for trans fat elimination “A new WHO Certification Program for Trans Fat Elimination aims to recognize countries that have eliminated industrially produced trans-fatty acids (TFA) from their national food supplies. This is the first-ever certification program that will recognize countries for their efforts to eliminate…

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…

U.N. News: WHO rolls out plan to rid world of cervical cancer, saving millions of lives “The World Health Organization (WHO) set out a strategy on Tuesday for eliminating cervical cancer, which would avoid the death of an estimated five million women and girls from the disease, by 2050. ……

WHO: WHO releases new estimates of the global burden of cervical cancer associated with HIV “Today as WHO launches the Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, the first estimates of the contribution of HIV to the global cervical cancer burden are also being released. Women living with…

AFRICA AP: As schools reopen in Africa, relief is matched by anxiety (Muhumuza/Odula, 11/16). ASIA Reuters: China finds coronavirus on frozen meat, packaging from Latin America, New Zealand (Singh et al., 11/15). Reuters: N.Korea’s Kim orders tightening of anti-virus measures amid global pandemic — KCNA (Cha, 11/15). EUROPE The Guardian:…

U.N. News: Diabetes increasing COVID risks, showing need to strengthen health systems “As the number of people with diabetes surges, many are at ‘increased risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19,’ the U.N. chief said in his message for World Diabetes Day, on Saturday. ‘Many efforts have been made…

BBC: How North Korea is trying to tackle smoking (Bhat, 11/14). Forbes: Lives Lost On The World’s Roads — ‘A Covid-19 Pandemic Every Year’ (Mohn, 11/15). Foreign Policy: U.N. Peacemaking in the Age of Plague (Lynch, 11/13). The Guardian: The defeat of polio proved that immunization saved lives, but there’s…

World Economic Forum: Silos in health care are bad for us. Here’s the cure Laurence Sperling, chair of the World Heart Federation group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes and professor in preventive cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, discusses the importance…

Devex: Opinion: COVID-19 is epicenter of bigger health earthquake — NCDs. Here’s reason for optimism. Gina Agiostratidou, program director for the Helmsley Charitable Trust’s type 1 diabetes program “Devastating as it is, COVID-19 is only the epicenter of a much bigger health earthquake, magnifying the long-standing suffering of people living…