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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: A phone of her own: How mobile access can change women’s lives Leora Klapper, a lead economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, discusses the multiple benefits to women who own mobile…

Center for Global Development’s “Global Health Policy Blog”: How Could the Global Fund Get More Health for Its Money? Lessons from the Economics of Contract Theory Mead Over, senior fellow at CGD, discusses two papers that were presented at a working group meeting on financing models in global health in…

Washington Post: Zika’s terrifying path “…Crossing four continents since the first major outbreak nine years ago, Zika’s painful path now touches an Olympic runner in California, and before her a nurse from Indiana, pregnant women in Colombia, a misshapen infant in Brazil, immunologists in Bethesda, Md., all the way back…

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: As U.S. sees first rise in TB cases since early ’90s, World TB Day offers forum to count costs of missed opportunities Antigone Barton, senior writer and editor of “Science Speaks,” discusses remarks made by speakers at a World TB Day briefing on…

GlobalPost: A new bill aims to make Brazil’s abortion law even tougher “…[T]he [Zika] crisis is spurring women’s rights activists to push for allowing abortion in cases of the birth defect called microcephaly, it’s also driven at least one Brazilian lawmaker in the opposite direction. A recent bill introduced by…

Nature: The race is on to develop Zika vaccine “Public health officials say that the first human trials of a Zika vaccine could begin this year. But they caution that it will take until at least next year, and possibly much longer, to determine whether a vaccine works…” (Hayden, 3/28).…

Council on Foreign Relations: The Long Fight Over Trade and Medicines In an online interactive, Thomas J. Bollyky, senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at CFR, examines new data suggesting U.S. trade deals are not be spurring a “discernable trend toward more expensive original or branded versions of…

New York Times: Vietnam’s Battle With Tuberculosis “…Twenty-five years ago … Vietnam had nearly 600 cases of tuberculosis for every 100,000 residents. Today, it has less than 200. The country boasts a 90 percent cure rate for uncomplicated tuberculosis and cures 75 percent of its drug-resistant cases, easily beating the…

The Guardian: Malawi turns to drones to bolster child health care in remote communities “…Working with the government, UNICEF is considering using drones to transport medical tests and blood samples from rural clinics to laboratories, avoiding the rutted roads that make even short journeys uncomfortable and unpredictable, partly because of…