NK News: North Korea could face major tuberculosis medication shortage, NGO warns “North Korea could face a shortage of medication needed to treat drug-susceptible tuberculosis (TB) medication, the Eugene Bell Foundation NGO warned on Thursday, urging South Koreans to play a more active role in providing humanitarian aid to the…

TIME: This Freshman Congresswoman Wants to Restore U.S. Funding to U.N. Reproductive-Health Agency “When Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan first came to Washington, D.C. nine months ago, the Air Force veteran knew she wanted to carve out a policy niche in promoting women’s rights both domestically and internationally. On Thursday, she…

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…

The Hill: On World Food Day, united in the fight against hunger at home and abroad Reps. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) “…As members of Congress on this World Food Day, we hope that the universality of food — and the knowledge that too many around us…

Devex: Opinion: Embracing global public investment can get financing for development back on track Jonathan Glennie, senior fellow at the Joep Lange Institute, and Harpinder Collacott, executive director at Development Initiatives “As the international community seeks to build momentum behind the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, the question of how to…

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…

Foreign Policy: The Presidential Candidates Are Ignoring the World’s Biggest Looming Threat Matthew M. Kavanagh, visiting professor of law at Georgetown University and director of the Global Health Policy and Governance Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law “Whoever sits in the Oval Office come January…

Medium: “I was very depressed,” said Tanwa. “I was in denial for a very long time.” David Bryden, TB advocacy officer at RESULTS “…Isn’t it time we recognize the impact of tuberculosis on mental health? The world is facing an epidemic of TB-associated depression. … Yet, while the mental health…

New York Times: You’re Swabbing a Dead Gorilla for Ebola. Then It Gets Worse. “…Scientists [who] were trying to predict human Ebola outbreaks by detecting them first in apes and other forest animals … recently published a study in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B detailing 12…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: OPINION: Gender counts: Why investing in data on girls means transforming the future Karin Hulshof, UNICEF regional director for East Asia and the Pacific, and Bjorn Andersson, UNFPA regional director for Asia and the Pacific “…While the challenge of gender inequality isn’t new, there has been little…