The UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) was held last week in New York and resulted in the adoption of a Political Declaration (PDF here). As I feared a few weeks ago, the declaration is weak and does not set hard goals or targets to curb the NCD epidemic, which caused two-thirds of […]
Today, I’d like to share articles published this week that explore developments and discoveries in global health. Drug-resistant strains of bacteria are on the rise, and there is a need for conservation of antibiotics. Genetically-modified mosquitoes are the latest attempt to curb malaria. Scientists have used modified HIV-1 to kill leukemia (really). Medical […]