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Bloomberg: Tax Soda to Help Fight Obesity Editorial Board “…Eating too much added sugar has become one of the riskiest health behaviors in the modern world. … Governments everywhere should tax sugar to persuade people to cut back. … Though it’s too early to be sure that the taxes will…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: What we’re reading: Drug prices and global free-loading? Or pharmaceutical free-loading? Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” highlights several pieces discussing the Trump administration’s plan to bring down the price of medicines in the U.S. Barton notes, “Among its analyses of medicine cost-drivers, according…

Center for Global Development: Ebola Again: Preparedness Is Still Underfinanced, but New Opportunities Are in Play Amanda Glassman, chief operating officer, senior fellow, and Board secretary at CGD; Liesl Schnabel, institutional advancement associate for strategic partnerships at CGD; and Rebecca Forman, a CGD research assistant, write, “While new tools [to…

PLOS Blogs’ “Global Health”: Gender and NCDs: Benign neglect in the face of a gaping window of opportunity Kent Buse, chief of strategic policy directions at UNAIDS, and Sarah Hawkes, professor of global health at the University College London (UCL) and founding director of the Centre for Gender and Global…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: Grand Challenges: Fueling Innovation in Global Health and Development Steven Buchsbaum, deputy director of Discovery & Translational Sciences in the Global Health Program of the Gates Foundation, discusses various successes of the Grand Challenges initiative, concluding, “I feel confident that the initiative’s smart…

Kaiser Family Foundation: Ebola: Five Key Questions With a new outbreak reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in May 2018, the Ebola virus is again in the news; four years have passed since the emergence of a major epidemic in West Africa in 2014 that eventually killed over…

Vanguard: Repeal the Global Gag Rule Sola Ogundipe, health editor at Vanguard Media Ltd. “…There is little doubt that [Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance, otherwise known as the Mexico City policy or global gag rule,] is undermining Nigeria’s reproductive and overall health goals and Nigerians are not happy about…

The Atlantic: Ebola Returns Just as the White House Loses Its Top Biodefense Expert “[Last] week, three things happened with painfully ironic synchronicity. First, the Democratic Republic of the Congo revealed that it is facing down its ninth Ebola outbreak. Second, President Trump asked Congress to rescind a $252 million…

The Atlantic: The New Ebola Outbreak Could Take ‘Three, Maybe Four’ Months to Control “The Democratic Republic of Congo is currently fighting its ninth Ebola outbreak — and Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum … the first scientist to encounter Ebola during the first-ever outbreak in 1976 … [said,] ‘I think we will…