The Guardian: Live Q&A: How can we improve mental health support in developing countries? “…What are the barriers to understanding and treating mental health in poorer countries? How can attitudes to mental health be changed? And with resources dealing with health issues already so stretched, how can we make mental…

Reuters: Venezuela needs urgent foreign medical aid, pharma group says “With scores of medicines in short supply due to a severe financial squeeze, Venezuela is suffering a ‘humanitarian crisis’ and requires rapid international assistance, according to a major pharmaceutical association. The Venezuelan Pharmaceutical Federation listed 150 medicines, from those for…

Frontline Health Workers Coalition: A Connected Health Workforce is Essential to Global Health Security Corinne Mahoney, senior manager of communications and knowledge management at IntraHealth International, discusses the use of mobile phones to help spread information and knowledge among health workers, writing, “When we invest to give health workers what…

Reuters Health: Mothers worldwide leaving hospitals too soon after childbirth “…The World Health Organization suggests that women stay in the hospital at least 24 hours after a vaginal delivery, but researchers found that depending on the region, up to 83 percent of women left before that cutoff. … [Researchers] analyzed…

VOA News: Uganda Court Ruling on Maternal Deaths Having Wider Impact “In Uganda, a court case involving two women who died in childbirth at government hospitals could have widespread legal implications. A Supreme Court ruling in the matter has opened the door to lawsuits in cases where the government fails…

Humanosphere: A chat with Christine Sow: The future of global health Imana Gunawan, social media manager and producer of the Humanosphere podcast, writes, “For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Christine Sow, director of the Global Health Council based in Washington, D.C. We wanted to get Dr. Sow’s take on…

The Guardian: Why are millions of children still dying from preventable diseases? Amy Whalley, head of policy advocacy at Results U.K. “…World Immunization Week, which began on 24 April, offers an opportune moment to shine light on the progress being made to reach all children with vaccines through the Global…

U.N. News Centre: States must do more to safeguard adolescent health rights — U.N. expert “A United Nations human rights expert[, Dainius Puras, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to health, on Wednesday] called on states to remove all legal barriers to access health facilities, goods, and services interfering with…

Deutsche Welle: Crowdsourcing corruption in India’s maternal health services “The Mera Swasthya Meri Aawaz (MSMA) project is the first of its kind in India to track illicit maternal fees demanded in government hospitals located in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. MSMA (‘My Health, My Voice’) is part of SAHAYOG,…

The Guardian: Why do a million women still suffer the treatable condition of fistula? Kate Grant, CEO of the Fistula Foundation “…The most crucial variable in the outcomes for women is the competency of the surgeon developed over years of experience. Yet the biggest challenge to treating more women [with…