The Hill: Health is in our hands Carolyn Moore, secretariat director of the Global Handwashing Partnership “…Preventing infections requires the availability of soap, water, and sanitation, and consistent and correct hand hygiene. … Prevention is cost-effective and Congress agrees on many issues of water and global health. The U.S. government…

Inter Press Service: The Earthquake in Indonesia: How Collaboration Impacts the Global Water Crisis George C. Greene IV, president and chief operating officer of Water Mission “…[T]hrough continued collaboration, we believe humanitarians, nonprofits, governments, and communities can come together and forge an alliance to address one of the world’s most…

Council on Foreign Relations’ “Strength Through Peace/Center for Preventive Action”: Who Controls the Tap? Addressing Water Security in Asia In this guest post, Sherri Goodman, senior fellow for the Environmental Change and Security Program and the Polar Initiative at the Wilson Center, and Zoe Dutton, intern at the Wilson Center,…

Associated Press: Child hunger ‘serious’ in India while its economy grows fast (10/12). BuzzFeed News: The U.S. Is Sending Its Addiction Problem Over The Border (Stanton, 10/11). CNN: India hit with its biggest outbreak of Zika to date, with 32 confirmed cases (Suri, 10/12). Devex: Indonesia disaster reveals community preparedness…

USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: It’s All In the Evidence: Water Challenge Demonstrates the Power of Doing Development Differently Ku McMahan, team lead for Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development, discusses a USAID-hosted session at World Water Week, during which experts and innovators working to improve water use in farming…

Devex: Syria’s humanitarian crisis not likely to end in 2019, U.N. expert says (Lieberman, 10/5). Inter Press Service: Over and Under Nutrition: Two Sides of an Unhealthy Coin (Yakupitiyage, 10/4). IRIN: “If the water finishes, we will leave”: Drought is forcing hundreds of thousands of Afghans from their homes (Glinski,…

CNN: It’s time for women and girls to speak about their periods Amina J. Mohammed, deputy secretary general of the U.N. “If we are to achieve true gender equality, we need to tackle everything that contributes to the discrimination and marginalization of women — including menstruation. … When menstrual hygiene…

Christian Science Monitor: Culture shift: What’s behind a decline in drinking worldwide (Llana/Traub, 10/3). Devex: India counts down to its open defecation elimination goal (Rogers, 10/4). The Guardian: ‘I will not give them the baby’: the plight of Cambodia’s detained surrogates (Handley/Meta, 10/2). NPR: Why Infanticide Is A Problem In…

aidsmap: One in five exposed to TB during HIV clinic visits, Malawi study finds (Alcorn, 10/1). Associated Press: Zimbabwe in huge cholera vaccination drive after 49 deaths (10/3). BBC News: The battle for better disability rehab in North Africa (Daniels, 10/1). BBC News: Cervical cancer: Australia ‘to be first to…

WHO: WHO calls for increased investment to reach the goal of a toilet for all “The world will not reach the goal of universal sanitation coverage — where every person in the world has access to toilets that safely contain excreta — by 2030 unless countries make comprehensive policy shifts…