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GlobalPost: Just how bad is tuberculosis in North Korea? “…[I]t’s significant that since 2008, a team from Stanford University has been allowed to visit [North Korea] several times each year to help address the country’s soaring tuberculosis problem. They have even been allowed to set up a laboratory to test…

Devex: U.S. Congress sending mixed messages on aid ‘localization’ “If the U.S. Agency for International Development is looking for clear signals from Congress on whether or not lawmakers support the agency’s efforts to direct more of its funding to local organizations, the spending bill approved on Thursday by the Senate…

VOA News: Somalia Showcases Achievements in HIV/AIDS Awareness “For the first time ever, the Somali National AIDS Commission participated in the 17th International Conference on AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa, last month. With over 7,000 leading scientists, policymakers, government leaders, and people living with HIV/AID in attendance, Somalia was…

News outlets continue to report on India’s recognition of three years since reporting a polio case and its anticipated certification as polio-free. PBS NewsHour: India marks three years without polio, but challenges still remain “It’s been three years since a case of polio has been reported in India, a milestone…

Inter Press Service: Seasonal Migration Frustrates Ethiopia’s Family Planning “…[B]ecause of the nomadic life of the community [in some parts of Ethiopia] it has been difficult for the government and community-based NGOs to provide family planning services…” (Gathigah, 1/20).

Wall Street Journal: China’s Zhejiang Becomes First Province to Loosen Family Planning Policy “Eastern China’s Zhejiang province announced a loosening of its family planning policy on Friday, becoming the first province to make good on the Communist Party’s pledge to relax the country’s controversial one-child rule…” (Chin, 1/17).

Agence France-Presse: A world without antibiotics? The risk is real: experts “Humans face the very real risk of a future without antibiotics, a world of plummeting life expectancy where people die from diseases easily treatable today, scientists say. Experts tracking the rise of drug resistance say years of health gains…

“…Looking at the four years that have elapsed since a violent earthquake shook Haiti to its core in 2010, the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s Jake Johnston shows in painstaking detail how American corruption played a huge role in Haiti’s faltering reconstruction process,” journalist Ansel Herz writes in Humanosphere.…

U.N. News Centre: Healthy and sustainable food systems key to fighting hunger, U.N. agency says “Healthy people need healthy and sustainable food systems, the United Nations said today said calling for agricultural research and development to become more focused on nutrition, as well as local biodiversity and diversified farming systems…”…

In the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists” blog, Aphyra Chheav, a member of the Key Correspondents program, advocates that prisoners in Cambodia should have access to treatment for illicit drug use. “…One motivation to provide better drug treatment for prisoners relates to the global ambition to prevent new…