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New York Times: 5 Reasons to Think the Zika Virus Causes Microcephaly “…[A] surge in microcephaly has been reported only in Brazil; a small increase was reported in French Polynesia, and a cluster of 32 cases is now under investigation in Colombia. For proof of the connection between infection with…

Boston Globe: Truth and justice for Haiti Editorial Board “Victims of Haiti’s raging cholera epidemic got a glimmer of good news recently when a class-action lawsuit seeking recompense from the United Nations for its role in spreading the disease finally got a hearing in a New York courtroom. … The…

Financial Times: The Global Fund’s Mark Dybul on the fight against global epidemics “For a sense of Mark Dybul’s cosmopolitan life, one need only consider the dinner guests he recently hosted at his home in Lausanne, Switzerland. ‘We had a 30-year-old Iranian, a 28-year-old Moroccan, and people from France, Portugal,…

Financial Times: Sanofi to launch dengue mass vaccination program “Sanofi will launch the world’s first mass vaccination program for dengue fever in the Philippines on Monday, bringing to fruition a 20-year development process in which the French pharmaceuticals group has invested €1.5bn [$1.7 billion]. One million Filipino schoolchildren are to…

Agence France-Presse: Drought-hit Somalia at ‘tipping point’: U.N. “The United Nations’ aid chief for Somalia begged for cash Thursday to stave off starvation amid intense drought affecting a million people and to pull the war-torn country ‘back from the tipping point.’ ‘Urgent action is required right now. If not, we…

Financial Times: Three Births “The day a baby is born in the developing world will be the most dangerous of its life — and can be just as perilous for its mother. Amy Kazmin, Jude Webber, and Andrew Jack, FT reporters on three continents, follow the fates of three women…

Huffington Post: Have we Been Hooked on Micronutrients in our Search for the Solution to Stunting? Klaus Kraemer, director of the Sight and Life Foundation, and Richard D. Semba, professor at Johns Hopkins University “…[S]tunted children are in reality not receiving sufficient quality protein from their diet and this lack…

WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The April 2016 WHO Bulletin includes editorials, news, research, and policy articles on various topics, including an editorial on knowledge sharing during public health emergencies, a research paper on the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women living with HIV, and…

Guttmacher Institute: Unsafe Abortion Is Common In Tanzania and Is A Major Cause of Maternal Death “In the first nationally representative study of the incidence of abortion and the provision of postabortion care in Tanzania, researchers found that clandestine abortion is common and is a major contributor to maternal death…