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Project Syndicate: The ABCs of NCD Care Amy Israel, director for Global Health Thought Leadership and Policy at Eli Lilly “…At the same time that we prepare for the emergence of Disease X, we must also strengthen the kind of supportive health care systems that help patients live full, healthy…

FT Health: Employers’ guide to disability in the workplace The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter highlights a special report from the Financial Times on disability in the workplace, as well as provides a round-up of global health-related news stories (Jack/Dodd, 5/11).

Center for Strategic & International Studies: Weighing the Risk of Obesity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Reid Hamel, senior fellow, and Elizabeth Black, research intern, both at the CSIS Global Food Security Project, discuss the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity in low- and middle-income countries, the challenges these conditions…

Brookings Institution: Testimony on modernizing development finance. In testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on May 10, George Ingram, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chair of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, discussed the importance of modernizing U.S. development finance and ways to strengthen the BUILD…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 336 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter includes articles on various topics, including key discussions and decisions made at the Global Fund Board meeting that took place last week…

UNFPA: Fifty years ago, it became official: Family planning is a human right In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Teheran Proclamation, which states that family planning is a basic human right, this article discusses nine standards to uphold the human right to family planning (5/11).

USAID: USAID Administrator Mark Green Travels To Bangladesh, Burma, and Thailand “U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green will travel to Bangladesh, Burma, and Thailand from May 13 to May 23. … While in Bangladesh and Burma, Administrator Green plans to visit several sites where the U.S. government…

Associated Press: WHO chief says Ebola vaccines to be shipped to Congo “Ebola vaccines will be shipped ‘as quickly as possible’ to Congo as the number of suspected cases in the latest outbreak grows, the head of the World Health Organization said Friday. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus in a Twitter…

Devex: Development finance bill moves forward in legislative process “The BUILD Act, the bill that would create a new United States development finance corporation, moved closer to passage this week, with the House Foreign Affairs Committee approving the bill with some changes, and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations holding…