Financial Times: Special Report: Universal Healthcare “World leaders have committed to introduce universal health coverage by 2030 as part of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. FT writers discuss the policies and innovations in technology that could help bring this about.” The special report includes a video on how technology is improving…

New York Times: An HIV Outbreak Puts Spotlight on Pakistan’s Health Care System “A pediatrician accused of reusing syringes and infecting [nearly 900] Pakistani children with HIV [in the small Pakistani city of Ratodero] is now practicing in a government-run hospital after his private clinic was shuttered, in a case…

Devex: The many challenges of tackling substandard and falsified medicines “…The scale of the distribution of [substandard and falsified medicines] — which range from drugs that fail to meet quality standards to medical products that deliberately misrepresent what they are — is only beginning to emerge, although WHO puts the…

Associated Press: U.N. investigator: 11 million North Koreans are undernourished (Lederer, 10/22). Devex: Donors launch a new club for social enterprises (Cheney, 10/24). Global Health NOW: Intimate Partner Violence Deters Breastfeeding (10/23). Globe and Mail: Polio, propaganda and public mistrust: In Pakistan, vaccine workers have three diseases to fight (Farooqui,…

The Guardian: Simple eye care could improve sight of more than 1 billion people — report “More than 1 billion people are needlessly losing their sight because of a lack of simple eye care, according to a landmark report on vision by the World Health Organization. The research has revealed…

Associated Press: Report reveals widespread abuse of women during childbirth “A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated, or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. The study published…

New York Times: In a Race Against Death, No Way to Call a Doctor “…Two months after the Indian government revoked Kashmir’s autonomy and imposed harsh security measures across the Kashmir Valley, doctors and patients here say the crackdown has taken many lives, in large part because of a government-imposed…

Medicines Patent Pool: The Medicines Patent Pool publishes intellectual property status of 18 drugs added to WHO Essential Medicines List “The Medicines Patent Pool [last week] announced the first of a two-step update of its database MedsPaL to include additional patented small molecule medicines following the publication of the World…

Global Health NOW: When You Live Close to the Hospital, But Can’t Reach It in Time Anudari Zorigtbaatar, medical student at McGill University “…In fact, 5.8 million people die each year as a result of injuries — more than the fatalities associated with malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS combined. Not to…

Global Health NOW: Safe Surgery — and UHC — Hinge on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene James C. Cobey, orthopedic surgeon, epidemiologist, and founding board member of The G4 Alliance “…While performing surgery in many developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia, I have often had to boil water first.…