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Devex: 6 conversations you missed at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (Rogers/Ravelo, 9/14). The Guardian: Affordable vaping for smokers in poor countries branded ‘a human rights issue’ (Austin, 9/14). The Guardian: ‘A lurking beast’: polio casts shadow over Papua New Guinea independence day (Martin/Lyons, 9/15). The Guardian: ‘She didn’t…

FT Health: Cancer and quackery The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses crowdfunding cancer therapies, alternative therapies, and the WHO’s recent report on cancer rates worldwide. The issue also features an interview with Wilbert Bannenberg, president of the Dutch Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation, “on his plans…

Brookings Institution: How many people will the world leave behind? Homi Kharas, interim vice president and director; John McArthur, senior fellow; and Krista Rasmussen, research analyst, all in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, highlight a paper in which they discuss global progress on the Sustainable Development Goals…

CIDRAP News: FDA plan focuses on antibiotic development, stewardship “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [on Friday] announced a multipronged strategy to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that emphasizes new measures to spur development of antibiotics and alternative therapies, promote antibiotic stewardship in animal health, advance antibiotic resistance surveillance, and…

NPR: Which Foreign Aid Programs Work? The U.S. Runs A Test — But Won’t Talk About It “…[O]n Thursday, the government released the results of the first study in the [cash-benchmarking] series: An evaluation of a program to improve child and maternal health in Rwanda by teaching families about nutrition…

Agence France-Presse: U.N. agrees global plan to battle TB ahead of first-ever summit “U.N. member states on Friday agreed on a global plan to step up the fight against tuberculosis, the world’s number one killer among infectious diseases, settling a row with the United States over access to cheap drugs…”…

USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: Temperature Check: Border Screening of Travelers Key to Stopping Ebola from Spreading Alma Golden, senior deputy assistant administrator for global health at USAID, discusses the importance of border health screening and surveillance efforts in the most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as…

New York Times: Where a Sore Throat Becomes a Death Sentence “…In the United States and other rich countries, children with sore throats are routinely tested for strep and quickly cured with penicillin or other cheap antibiotics. But in poor countries, strep throat often goes undiagnosed and can become a…

ABC News: Human survival cannot be left to politicians. We’re losing our life support systems David Shearman, honorary secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia and emeritus professor of medicine at Adelaide University “…[Jonas Salk] warned ‘if all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would…