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Huffington Post: Five Ways Clean Cooking Improves Health Radha Muthiah, CEO of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves “…Cooking over open fires and smoky stoves … leads to a wide range of noncommunicable diseases, such as pneumonia, lung cancer, and cardiovascular disease. The good news is it doesn’t have to…

NPR: How To Fight Zika When Your Country Is In Trouble: Improvise “[Recife Health Secretary Jailson Correia] asked for $7 million to fight Zika. He got a few hundred thousand dollars. … Why so stingy? Because Zika isn’t the only emergency in Brazil. Two other mosquito-borne viruses are spiking: Dengue…

CNN: World’s first dengue fever vaccine launched in the Philippines “…The Philippines’ Department of Health launched a school-based immunization program in highly affected areas, making it the first country where the vaccine is commercially available…” (East, 4/6).

SciDev.Net: Longer paid maternity leave saves babies “More generous policies for paid maternity leave can save the lives of babies in developing countries, a study has found. The paper estimates that each extra month of maternity leave is linked to about eight fewer infant deaths for each 1,000 live births.…

IRIN: Major drug shortage hits South Sudan “South Sudan is facing a critical shortage of drugs and life-saving medicines, according to Médecins Sans Frontières and a government official. It comes at a time when humanitarian organizations have been placed in a near-impossible situation — increasingly relied upon to provide most…

Nature: Action on mental health needs global cooperation Pamela Y. Collins, director of the Office for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, and Shekhar Saxena, director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the WHO “…The need and…

Center for Global Development’s “CGD Podcast”: Millions Saved: What Works in Global Health? — Podcast with Amanda Glassman In this podcast, Rajesh Mirchandani, vice president of communications and policy outreach at CGD, speaks with Amanda Glassman, vice president for programs, director of Global Health Policy, and senior fellow at CGD,…

Associated Press: White House to transfer Ebola funds to combat Zika virus “The Obama administration is to announce Wednesday it will transfer leftover money from the largely successful fight against Ebola to combat the growing threat of the Zika virus, congressional officials say…” (Taylor, 4/6). STAT: White House will dip…

USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: Equipping Health Workers to Achieve an AIDS-free Generation Shayanne Martin, Diana Frymus, and Kim Rogers, all members of the Health Workforce Team in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID, discuss the role of health workers in advancing global development and achieving an AIDS-free generation, writing, “The bottom line…