FT Health: Malaria backsliding, the Vatican and gene-editing The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses malaria funding and the slowing of progress on the disease. The newsletter also features an interview with Monsignor Tomasz Trafny, head of the Vatican’s Science and Faith Foundation, which is…

Human Rights Watch: A Backward Step for Reproductive Rights in Chile In an opinion piece originally published in La Tercera, José Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas Division at HRW, discusses Chile’s revised abortion rules. Vivanco writes, “The Chilean government should review and amend the rules to ensure that…

The Hill: The world’s hidden health crisis Bruce Wilkinson, CEO of CMMB “…Faith-based and secular organizations do so much genuinely effective health and development work around the world, in partnership with U.S. and other government agencies. … But our collective effectiveness is being undercut every day due to this pervasive…

Inter Press Service: El Salvador’s Shameful Treatment of Women Who Miscarry Jeannette Urquilla, executive director of Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz (ORMUSA) “…Since 1998, under Article 133 of our Penal Code, abortion has been completely illegal in El Salvador in all circumstances. … El Salvador is one of…

The Guardian: Afghan clerics in talks with Isis to break polio vaccine myths “Islamic clerics have agreed to work with the Afghan government to persuade militant groups in the country that vaccination programs should be allowed in remote areas. Imans are to consult with the Taliban, Islamic State, and other…

USAID’s “Global Health News”: Faith-based Organizations in Global Health USAID’s February 2018 newsletter focuses on faith-based organizations in global health and includes articles highlighting the role and work of faith-based organizations in addressing Zika, HIV, and gender-based violence (February 2018).

POLITICO Magazine: How Social Conservatism Fueled Russia’s HIV Epidemic “…The Kremlin and its allies are pushing a socially conservative, hands-off, and often church-influenced approach to sexual and reproductive health, as well as drug policy. Fueling an epidemic, state policies and inaction have led to more cases than ever of Russians…

FT Health: Evidence must trump belief The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses how global health decisions should be made based on evidence rather than “personal belief,” as well as features an interview with Larry Summers, professor at Harvard and co-chair of Michael Bloomberg’s Task…

Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: Healthy Women, Healthy Families: Saving Money and Lives With Faith-Based Family Planning Anuj Krishnamurthy, intern with the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center, highlights an event held in July at the Wilson Center, during which panelists…

Devex: How to defend aid in the Trump era: Try national security, business and faith “…The Trump administration and its ‘America First’ policy agenda has caused advocates for foreign assistance to rethink their arguments as they attempt to make the case for aid. But if one door closes, another opens,…