Features

Times of India: With government aiming to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from India by 2025, focus on links between smoking and TB is growing.

Global Health Now: As part of Global Health NOW’s occasional Q&A series with global health leaders, José Luis Castro, president and CEO of Vital Strategies, talks about sustainability, data, the special challenge of fighting NCDs and why the 2014 high-level meeting on NCDs flopped.

Devex: As in many cities around the world, children in Quito are now more exposed to unhealthy food and sugary snacks contributing to childhood obesity.

Devex: People in Ouagadougou are consuming excessive amounts of alcohol and sugary drinks, as well as fast food containing a high salt and fat content, growing the burden of non-communicable disease.

Politico: Bloomberg Philanthropies' Data for Health Initiative, is testing out new ways for tracking major life events such as birth numbers and causes of death providing governments and public health groups with a better sense of their populations’ overall health.