STAT: A drug priced out of reach in Africa could save lives from a neglected killer Patrick Adams, freelance journalist, and Cameron Nutt, fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School “…[I]n sub-Saharan Africa [cryptococcal meningitis, or crypto] is fatal in 70 percent of patients even after they reach referral hospitals in…

Financial Times: China drug scandals highlight risks to global supply chain “Drug safety scandals in recent weeks have underlined the risks to international consumers posed by weak oversight in China, the world’s largest supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients…” (Hancock/Xueqiao, 8/6).

CIDRAP News: WHO highlights ongoing hospital MERS outbreak threat (Schnirring, 8/8). Devex: Doing it for the kids: Engaging youth to help lift burden of NCDs (Politzer, 8/10). Fortune: Why Measles Is Back in the Americas (Laursen, 8/9). The Guardian: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study…

The Intercept: Trump Administration Siding with Former Obama Aide at U.N. to Protect Industry Profits “The Trump administration, fresh off its battle against breastfeeding at the United Nations, is once again pressuring countries to revise a U.N. public health resolution, this time focused on tuberculosis. The U.S. is seeking to…

Devex: South Africa strikes deal on new TB drug as WHO revisits guidance “The World Health Organization could soon start promoting a new tuberculosis drug that is now more affordable after South Africa brokered a deal with a pharmaceutical company to slash the price by half. WHO had previously issued…

The Hill: Wasted food is a factor that remains noticeably absent from the climate change discourse Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), ranking member of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, and Michael Shank, communications director for the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network “…Globally, nearly 30 percent of…

The Lancet: Vaccine scandal and confidence crisis in China Editorial Board “…[The latest vaccine scandal in China involving the country’s vaccine regulatory system and the administration of substandard vaccines] follows on from a series of fake and substandard food and drugs issues in China. As a result, many parents have…

USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: Building the Next Generation of Business-Minded Global Health Leaders Rachel Fowler, program analyst at USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact in the Bureau for Global Health, discusses the launch of a competition hosted by GlaxoSmithKline, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and USAID “to build business-minded global health…

Project Syndicate: Unlocking Private-Sector Funds for Sustainable Development Mahmoud Mohieldin, senior vice president for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations, and Partnerships at the World Bank Group, and Svetlana Klimenko, lead financial management specialist at the World Bank Group “…The key to achieving the [Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)] is…

HuffPost: Global Health Community Says The U.S. Is Picking Big Business Over Patients Again “The global health community has once again found itself in a familiar position: fighting the U.S. on a policy previously seen as a no-brainer. … Despite being the top single-country funder by far in the worldwide…