World Health Organization
For those that care about the world’s health – from immunization, to newborn health, to obesity, to global health security and more – World Health+SocialGood will be an opportunity to join the World Health Assembly conversation and to easily get updates and highlights throughout the week. It will expand the reach and impact of the Assembly, making it accessible in a new way to a broad community of people who care deeply about global health challenges and solutions. [Read More]

The Lancet
Global priorities have progressed from the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that will expire in 2015 to global sustainable development. Although there is not yet a consensus on the specific goals for the post-MDG era, the post-2015 investment agenda for health will probably emphasise social determinants of health, sustainable development, non-communicable diseases, health systems strengthening, universal health coverage, the health of women and children, and ageing. [Read More]

Associated Press
The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is “totally out of control,” according to a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says and the medical group is stretched to the limit in its capacity to respond. [Read More]

Kaiser Family Foundation
At 10:30 a.m. ET on June 23, the Kaiser Family Foundation will host a town hall forum with Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, M.D. the new U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, to lay out her vision for the next phase of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in supporting efforts to achieve an AIDS-free generation. The session will be moderated by Jen Kates, a Foundation vice president and director of global health and HIV policy, and provide an opportunity for interactive engagement with the new Ambassador. [Read More]

SciDev.net
A new genetic test for tuberculosis (TB)  could dramatically improve the accuracy of diagnoses of infected children in developing countries, although a simple diagnostic kit could be some way off. [Read More]

Management Sciences for Health

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a social media campaign to raise awareness about the critical impact of, and ongoing need for, global maternal and child survival efforts. The campaign, 20 Days of Action for #MomAndBaby, marks the two-year anniversary this month of two USAID child survival campaigns (Call to Action and A Promise Renewed), and leads up to their high-level forum, Acting on the Call: Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths, June 25, 2014 in Washington, DC. [Read more]

Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)

Thursday, June 26, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EDT
Family planning contributes to healthier children and mothers, but more than 200 million women worldwide have an unmet need for modern contraceptives. At the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012, leaders of 150 countries and international organizations embraced the significant goal of expanding access to family planning information and services to an additional 120 million women by 2020. However, there are significant challenges to making contraceptives more widely available and accessible, including a lack of reliable monitoring and data collection mechanisms. Better data and monitoring are critical to hold donors, governments, and service providers accountable. [Read More]

John Snow, Inc.

The systematic tracking of contraceptive security (CS) indicators can be an effective way for in-country stakeholders to regularly monitor their country's CS status to inform decisionmaking, advocacy, and program planning. It also provides an opportunity for stakeholders to look at trends across countries related to the five component areas measured: leadership and coordination, finance and procurement, commodities,  policies, and supply chain. [Read More]

Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
Course Date: 4-8 August 2014

Sonke Gender Justice Network, the Gender Unit at the Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria and the Centre for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria are offering the  “The Role of  Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality”  short course to increase the capacity of organisations and individuals to lead gender justice programmes that engage men and boys as partners and agents of change within a feminist framework. [Read More]

Inter Press Service News Agency
Pollution, not disease, is the biggest killer in the developing world, taking the lives of more than 8.4 million people each year, a new analysis shows. That’s almost three times the deaths caused by malaria and fourteen times those caused by HIV/AIDs. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [Read More]