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Gates Notes: How to keep up progress on global health Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses the release of the foundation’s Goalkeepers 2018 report, which tracks progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (9/18).

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 342 of the ‘Global Fund Observer.’ The newsletter includes articles on various topics, including the Global Fund’s recently released Results Report 2018 and the Office of the Inspector General’s recent…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s “VOICES”: We Must Act Urgently to End HIV, TB and Malaria Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands discusses results from the Global Fund’s recently released results report, writing, “To meet the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the [HIV, TB, and malaria] epidemics…

WHO Africa: WHO and CDC support the Ministry of Health to strengthen capacity for detection, investigation and response to Ebola Virus Disease in districts bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo “The outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Beni, North Kivu province poses…

Associated Press: Burkina Faso arrests 30 over illegal female circumcisions “Burkina Faso authorities have jailed more than 30 adults after they carried out botched female genital mutilation on nearly 60 infants and girls who have been hospitalized…” (9/18). BBC News: Burkina Faso botched FGM leaves 50 girls in hospital “…Not…

Associated Press: 100 Die in Nigeria Flooding as Toll Expected to Rise (9/18). BBC News: Zambia aid: U.K. suspends funding over corruption fears (9/18). BBC News: Yemen conflict: A million more children face famine, NGO warns (9/19). Bloomberg: Lagarde Says World Needs to Spend More to Meet Development Goals (Mayeda,…

NPR: Why The U.S. Ranks At The Bottom In A Foreign Aid Index “…According to an annual index released Tuesday by the Center for Global Development that ranks 27 of the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. scored dead last on foreign aid contributions and quality — despite being the largest…

CIDRAP News: WHO report warns efforts to end TB are falling short “The number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases continued to decline in 2017, and fewer people died from the disease, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) 2018 Global TB Report. But efforts to make the world’s deadliest infectious…

Devex: A new index shows how to measure gender equality in the SDGs “…The SDG Gender Index, released by Equal Measures 2030 to coincide with a meeting in Canada of female foreign ministers, [provides] an analysis and assessment of more than 250 data points related to 12 of the 17…

CIDRAP News: White House shines high-level spotlight on biodefense “The Trump administration [on Tuesday] released a new National Biodefense Strategy, along with an order from President Donald Trump that directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take the coordinating lead and establishes a cabinet-level biodefense steering committee…” (Schnirring,…