USAID: Acting on the Call: Preventing Child & Maternal Deaths USAID released its 2019 Acting on the Call report, which provides an overview of U.S. investments in women’s and children’s health, examines how to best work with countries on their development journeys, and identifies four key principles to accelerate development…

Associated Press: More than 100 children die in India in encephalitis outbreak (6/18). BBC News: Low-income African countries ‘pay 30 times more’ for drugs (6/18). Devex: Q&A: Peter Sands on what it takes to create effective health systems (Lieberman, 6/18). Global Health NOW: Mercy Masoo, Leading the Way in WASH…

The Telegraph: Number of people forced to go to the toilet in the open cut by half “The number of people around the world forced to go to the toilet in the open has halved since 2000, according to new data. A report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF…

Devex: At U.N. disability rights conference, experts question U.N. inclusivity (Lieberman, 6/13). Inside Philanthropy: To Bolster Access to Water and Sanitation, These Funders Are Betting on a Systems Approach (Naracott/Barnett, 6/12). Thomson Reuters Foundation: Indian factories found endangering seamstresses’ health with illegal pills (Nagaraj, 6/12). Xinhua News: Flooding in Yemen…

Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ “Global Food for Thought”: Food Security Depends on Water Security — And We Need to Act Now Mark W. Rosegrant, nonresident fellow for global food and agriculture at the Chicago Council, discusses challenges to ensuring global water and food security, detailing ways in which water…

USAID: USAID Administrator Mark Green and PepsiCo Leaders Announce Global Partnership “U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green, PepsiCo Director of Sustainable Agriculture Margaret Henry, and the President of the PepsiCo Foundation Jon Banner, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 7, 2019, in New York, to expand…

Chicago Council’s “Global Food for Thought”: A Huge Amount of Food is Wasted — And With It, Water, Energy, and Nutrition Michael Tiboris, global water fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and public fellow for the American Council of Learned Societies, discusses how food loss and waste could…

PAI: How the Expanded Global Gag Rule Affects Water, Sanitation and Hygiene This report, coauthored by WaterAid and PAI, discusses the ways in which the expanded Mexico City policy affects Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) efforts, noting, “WASH programs have an unusual funding structure within the U.S. government, in that…

WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The June 2019 WHO Bulletin features articles on various topics, including an editorial on health systems research in fragile settings, a policy article on universal health coverage and primary care in Thailand, and a perspective piece on the right to water, sanitation, and…

Project Syndicate: Maintaining the Momentum Against Cholera Anita Zaidi, director of vaccine development, surveillance, and enteric and diarrheal diseases programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…[I]n the past 18 months, the world has made significant strides in the fight against cholera. … It is possible that historians will…