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The Hill: Sow food security, harvest peace Jose Graziano da Silva, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization “…Interventions to ensure food security and protect and rehabilitate the agricultural sector have a large and often unnoticed contribution to make, as beyond their obvious role in addressing hunger, they…

Washington Post: Thousands died when the U.N. brought cholera to Haiti. Here’s why it’s getting off scot-free. Mara Pillinger and Michael N. Barnett of George Washington University, and Ian Hurd of Northwestern University “Who pays the costs when United Nations operations go wrong? This hypothetical question became very real in…

Huffington Post: HIV/AIDS Advocates Can ‘Unite to End TB’ for Common Goals Jennifer Sherwood, policy associate at amfAR, and Christina Chandra, Allan Rosenfield public policy fellow at amfAR “…By 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals set a target of ending the TB and AIDS epidemics altogether. The obstacles to achieving these…

The Guardian: Mozambique’s enduring discrimination leaves gay men untreated for HIV “…Aside from being demoralizing, discrimination against men who have sex with men is jeopardizing government efforts to reduce the high incidence of HIV and AIDS. At 11.5 percent, Mozambique has one of the 10 highest HIV rates in the…

Inter Press Service: NGO Pledges $500 Million Towards Sustainable Development Goals “CMMB — Healthier Lives Worldwide — a leading international nonprofit health non-governmental organization (NGO) — has pledged 500 million dollars to help implement the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — with a specific focus on maternal, newborn, child, and…

Project Syndicate: Back to Disease-Fighting Basics Jim O’Neill, commercial secretary to the U.K. Treasury, honorary professor of Economics at Manchester University, visiting research fellow at Bruegel, and chair of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance “…To tackle the problem [of antimicrobial resistance] permanently, the only option is to prevent infections from…

Council on Foreign Relations’ “Women Around the World”: A Strategic Approach to the New Global Goals Rachel Vogelstein, senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at CFR, discusses the relationship between women’s empowerment and sustainable development, writing, “[A]mplifying efforts to accelerate women’s full economic participation will…

World Bank’s “Voices”: The lessons of Carabayllo: making tough choices in the fight against TB Carlos Ferreyra, communications officer and Spanish-language online editor for the World Bank’s external and corporate relations, discusses TB survivor Melquiades Huaya Oré’s experience with TB, as well as World Bank president Jim Kim’s statement on…

News outlets report on new CDC interim guidelines on Zika prevention. CQ HealthBeat: CDC Issues New Zika Recommendations “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has for the first time issued recommendations to minimize the risk of Zika virus in men and women who are not pregnant, going beyond previous…