Financial Times: Global business chiefs pledge to boost sustainable development “Chief executives from 30 of the world’s biggest companies have promised to do more in support of investment to tackle a shortfall measuring trillions of dollars a year in funding the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals…” (Edgecliffe-Johnson, 10/16). U.N. News: Business…

Global Health NOW: Fragile States Need Private Sector Allies Marian W. Wentworth, president and CEO of Management Sciences for Health “…When a country’s government is frozen by conflict, natural disasters, financial crisis, or another crippling event, its health care system is all too likely to follow. Health workers flee or…

USAID: USAID Administrator Mark Green Announces New Feed the Future Partnerships and an Open Call for Co-Creation “[Wednesday] in keynote remarks in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green announced three new Feed the Future partnerships with John Deere, Mastercard, and Cornell University to reduce…

Borgen Magazine: Leaders Addressing Global Poverty in Five Ways (Blakeney, 10/12). CBS News: Doctors Without Borders presses Johnson & Johnson to slash price of tuberculosis drug (Cerullo, 10/14). Devex: What could Canada’s Conservatives mean for foreign aid? (Halais, 10/15). Devex: Private sector on a ‘journey’ to engagement with the SDGs…

Devex: Global Fund claims last-minute victory on $14B replenishment target “The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said it secured its $14 billion funding target at its replenishment conference Thursday, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the French government upping their earlier pledges to get donors…

The Telegraph: Tobacco industry has least influence on the U.K., watchdog ranking reveals “The first-ever global index to track tobacco industry influence over public health policy has revealed that the U.K. is a world leader in efforts to curtail undue meddling. According to the report, published by the industry watchdog…

Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign: MSF calls for new price of anti TB drug delamanid to be lowered and offered outside of South Africa “Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) acknowledges the lower price offered to the government of South Africa for newer anti tuberculosis (TB) drug, delamanid, but calls for it…

CapX: Undermining private sector innovation puts lives at risk Jasson Urbach, director at the South Africa-based Free Market Foundation “…The world needs new approaches and solutions [to health care] — and innovation and intellectual property (IP) must be central parts of those solutions. The private sector has long been the…

Health Policy Watch: Close The Doors That Help Tobacco Companies Influence U.N. Policy Deborah Sy, a partner in STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) and Head of Global Public Policy and Strategy at the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control “…STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) led an…

BMJ Opinion: Conflict of interest and the infant formula industry — a call to action Tanya Doherty of the Health Systems Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council and the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and colleagues discuss the…