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U.N. Dispatch: U.N. Releases Alarming Data on Lack of Breastfeeding Worldwide Joanne Lu, freelance journalist, discusses findings from a joint report released by the WHO and UNICEF on early initiation of breastfeeding. Lu notes that “inadequate quality of care to mothers and newborns, an increase in elective caesarean sections (‘C-sections’),…

ONE Campaign: CEO of the World Bank says: “Yes, we can rid the world of poverty and sexism.” Katerina Lovtchinova, ONE Belgium youth ambassador, discusses highlights from the 2018 European Development Days conference, including remarks made by Kristalina Georgieva, CEO of the World Bank, on ONE’s commitment to gender equality…

Center for Global Development: Time to Deliver: New Ebola Findings Highlight the Need to Improve Evidence and Interventions for Pregnant Women Carleigh Krubiner, global health policy fellow at CGD and project director and co-principal investigator for the Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies (PREVENT) Project, discusses a…

Devex: Could we deliver aid before a disaster strikes? (Bollag, 8/1). Devex: Q&A: Moving money around in HIV care (8/1). The Guardian: Nine-year-old child bride reportedly killed by husband in Afghanistan (Beaumont, 7/31). The Guardian: Dengue fever outbreak halted by release of special mosquitoes (Boseley, 8/1). Newsweek: Scientists May Have…

Devex: Opinion: Action to tackle tobacco in LMICs a moral and strategic imperative Laura Hucks, senior program manager with Cancer Research U.K.’s international tobacco control program “…The apathy toward [non-communicable diseases (NCDs)] in [low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)] is not acceptable, and there is an urgent need for investment in…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: AIDS 2018: Harm reduction, human rights, meaningful involvement of most affected get focus, raise questions of commitment Reporting from last week’s 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” highlights AIDS 2018 events related to the “largely untapped resources of…

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: Hepatitis B vaccines for children found effective in Bangladesh “A new study suggests that the hepatitis B vaccine program in Bangladesh is highly effective in preventing chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection among children. … On this World Hepatitis Day, the findings provide evidence that Bangladesh…

Associated Press: U.N. agency warns of another cholera outbreak in Yemen “The U.N. children’s agency is warning of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida…” (8/1). Xinhua News: UNICEF data show over 2,300 cholera-associated deaths across…

Al Jazeera: UNICEF: 78 million newborns at risk when breastfeeding is delayed “An estimated 78 million newborns have a higher risk of death each year from not drinking their mother’s milk within the first hours of being born, according to the United Nations…” (7/31). Quartz: The simple post-birth step that…

Science: A campaign to end AIDS by 2030 is faltering worldwide “The ambitious campaign to ‘end AIDS’ by 2030 is badly off track, officials said at the International AIDS Conference [in Amsterdam] last week. … [M]any countries, for a host of reasons, can’t or won’t mount aggressive responses. … The…