U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Readout of Secretary Azar’s Second Day of Participation at the 2018 World Health Assembly This post provides an update on HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s second day at the 71st World Health Assembly, highlighting some of the discussions and meetings in which the secretary…

FT Health: U.S. support for global health comes at a price The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter highlights topics discussed at the 71st World Health Assembly, including the WHO director general’s call for “fresh funding and partnerships” and the U.S. stance on global health security.…

CIDRAP News: Nipah death toll in India hits 12 as CEPI funds vaccine efforts “…[Thursday] the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announced a $25 million collaboration with two pharmaceutical companies to develop a vaccine against the disease, one of the group’s priority diseases…” (Schnirring, 5/24). Quartz: The latest outbreak…

USAID: Statement by Spokesperson Clayton M. McCleskey on the Elimination of Trachoma in Ghana and Nepal “This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized the Republic of Ghana and the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem. USAID congratulates the governments of Ghana and…

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…

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,…

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…

Lexington Herald-Leader: Wanted: Former Kentucky tobacco farms to join fight against malaria “Once known for expertise in growing tobacco, Kentucky is poised to become the epicenter of production of a similar plant that is used to cure malaria, called artemisia or sweet wormwood. … The plants produce a molecule called…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 334 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter includes articles on various topics, including the Global Fund’s suspension of its partnership with Heineken; the Global Fund’s co-financing policy; the passage…

Devex: What the Facebook scandal means for ‘data for good’ “As Facebook responds to a public relations nightmare — the fallout from news that a political consulting firm violated its rules for third party apps — organizations that have worked with the social media giant to use its data for…