Devex: Opinion: Eliminating trachoma means more than an end to blindness Caroline Roan, vice president of corporate responsibility at Pfizer and president of the Pfizer Foundation, and Edridah Muheki Tukahebwa, assistant commissioner of health services for vector control tropical diseases and national coordinator of the NTD control program for the…

Devex: Ghana eliminates trachoma “Ghana has become the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday. Experts credited community, regional, and international collaboration across the public and private sectors for stamping out the disease, which in 2000…

CIDRAP News: Rift Valley fever sickens 10 in Kenya, triggers response (Schnirring, 6/12). Devex: Ghana PPP pilots breakthrough insecticide to fight mosquito resistance (Pallares, 6/12). The Guardian: ‘My body, my choice’: Argentina moves closer to legal abortion with key vote (Kim, 6/13). Inter Press Service: Project Population: Addressing Asia’s Aging…

Devex: Q&A: Unitaid looks to break down silos for better global health “The global health community is increasingly moving away from a siloed approach — favored in the height of the battle against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria — toward a more integrated methodology in the spirit of the Sustainable Development…

The Hill: Antimicrobial resistance threatens our health security — both domestically and globally Barbara Murray, J. Ralph Meadows professor of medicine and director of the Infectious Diseases Division at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, and chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Antimicrobial Resistance Committee “…[C]ongressional attention…

Devex: Deal slashes drug price of 3 in 1 pill for people living with HIV “…UNITAID and Indian pharmaceutical company CIPLA have entered into an agreement that allows the latter to slash the prices of its drug, Q-TIB, by 30 percent. This means that a person living with HIV will…

USAID’s “Global Health News”: Private Sector Engagement USAID’s May 2018 newsletter focuses on engaging the private sector in global health efforts. “In recent years, we have seen a shift in the approach to development with increased focus on how donors can better engage the private sector to achieve greater impact…

Associated Press: A look at Zika and its link to microcephaly (DiLorenzo, 6/6). Devex: Q&A: Striking a balance between patients and profit (6/5). The Guardian: David Miliband: world must step up support for Rohingya refugees (Watt, 6/5). The Guardian: ‘Police never turned up’: El Salvador’s devastating epidemic of femicide (Griffin,…

The Guardian: Ghana’s unlikely marriage of mining and malaria control draws envious glances “…Ghana has the world’s fifth worst malaria burden. It is the number one reason outpatients go to hospital. But from 2004, this rural community [of Obuasi] began a turnaround that others now want to emulate. Key to…

The Lancet: Offline: Global health and the private sector Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet “…The World Health Assembly is under attack. It is under attack by a private sector that seeks to exploit the growing calls for more partnerships in global health. In particular, the pharmaceutical industry is slowly…