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New York Times: Rohingya Crisis ‘Could Have Been Handled Better,’ Aung San Suu Kyi Says “Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader, on Thursday sidestepped widespread accusations that her country’s military had unleashed ethnic cleansing on Rohingya Muslims, a campaign so brutal that the United Nations has recommended that…

Xinhua News: UNGA President: Climate change, SDGs to remain hot topics at upcoming U.N. General Debate “…Speaking to reporters on Thursday at the end-of-presidency press briefing, President of the 72nd session of the UNGA Miroslav Lajcak said that he believed the world leaders and high-level national representatives will, like they…

Devex: Opinion: We won’t beat malaria unless we rethink our financing mechanisms Christoph Benn, senior adviser to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria “…There is a pressing need to create new and unconventional finance mechanisms to ensure our progress against malaria is not hampered by a funding…

Devex: Opinion: Why diabetes in pregnancy should be on the agenda at U.N. meetings Katja Iversen, president and CEO of Women Deliver, and Leif Fenger Jensen, first managing director of the World Diabetes Foundation “…[M]any governments and health authorities have not yet made the prevention, screening, and treatment of diabetes…

Quartz Africa: Researchers tested conventional foreign aid against cash in Rwanda. Cash won. “…Rather than expand government-run programs, researchers are testing if giving cash directly to the poor might be better. Initial results are promising. A new study released on Sept. 13 by Craig McIntosh at the University of California…

Center for Global Development: More Results for the Money: Cash Benchmarking at USAID Sarah Rose, policy fellow, and Amanda Glassman, chief operating officer, senior fellow, and board secretary, both at CGD, discuss USAID’s new “series of cash benchmarking evaluations that compare the per-dollar impact of USAID programs with that of…

ABC News: Scientists will release genetically engineered mosquitoes in Africa to fight malaria (Biswas, 9/13). Al Jazeera: Ukraine’s ‘baby factories’: The human cost of surrogacy (Roache, 9/13). CIDRAP News: Ebola infects 5 more in DRC, lifting total to 137 (Schnirring, 9/13). The Economist: European countries demand that publicly funded research…

WHO: Almaty celebrates the official 40th birthday of primary health care “On 12 September 1978, exactly 40 years ago, the landmark Declaration of Alma-Ata on primary health care was signed at the International Conference on Primary Health Care. … On the occasion of this 40th anniversary, the WHO European Centre…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Dolutegravir results in low-resource setting highlight benefits Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” discusses findings from a study examining the use of dolutegravir-based treatments for HIV in a low-resource setting. Barton notes, “[F]indings from the first study … show use of the drug to…

Front Page Africa: Liberia: VP Taylor Applauds USAID for Helping Health Sector “Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has praised the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for its essential role in helping the nation’s health sector to tackle some of the challenges confronting it. … The vice president also…