Atlantic Council: Executive summary: The virus and global order Jeffrey Cimmino, program assistant at the Atlantic Council (6/1). Save the Children: 225 Past and Present Leaders Demand G20 Summit is Convened Urgently to Address Health and Economic Crises and Global Recovery Plan (6/2). U.N.: Kids and families broaden global perspectives…

STAT: Pharma leaders shoot down WHO voluntary pool for patent rights on Covid-19 products “The heads of some of the world’s largest drug makers expressed a mix of confusion and resistance to a World Health Organization voluntary pool to collect patent rights, regulatory test data, and other information that could…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “The Optimist”: Combating COVID-19 in India M. Hari Menon, director of the India office at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (5/26). Center for American Progress: Protecting and Promoting Women’s Rights Is Key to Defeating the Coronavirus at Home and Abroad Shilpa Phadke, vice president…

Nature: What the growing rift between the U.S. and WHO means for COVID-19 and global health “Experts in health policy are contending with the real possibility that the United States will pull away from the World Health Organization (WHO), fracturing a relationship that began in the wake of the Second…

Devex: Many girls won’t go back to school when lockdown is over “Around 90% of the world’s schoolchildren were confined to their homes in April, and if history is any indication, many girls won’t return to school once lockdowns are lifted. As a result, the coronavirus pandemic could threaten decades…

New York Times: Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 “Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednesday morning in Manhattan. He was 84. ……

Center for Global Development: A Tool to Estimate the Net Health Impact of COVID-19 Policies Damian Walker, non-resident fellow with CGD, and colleagues (5/26). Center for Global Development: What Is the World Health Organization Without the United States? Amanda Glassman, executive vice president of CGD, CEO of CGD Europe, and…

POLITICO: How coronavirus is changing access to abortion “As the coronavirus steamrolls the global order, reproductive health care practitioners and advocates are struggling to maintain access to contraception and abortions. Lockdowns and disrupted supply chains have prompted a flurry of action in the sector as governments, practitioners, and advocates react…

AFRICA AP: Tanzania says virus defeated through prayer, but fears grow (Odula/Anna, 5/22). VOA: COVID-19 Disrupts South Sudan Health Services (Mayar, 5/21). Washington Post: Living through a pandemic when your access to water is difficult (Emezi/Paquette, 5/21). ASIA AP: India struggles with twin challenges of cyclone and pandemic (Ghosal et…

Bloomberg: The U.S. Can’t Defeat Coronavirus Alone Editorial Board (5/19). Devex: Opinion: What does it take to stock a nation with medical supplies? Grete Faremo, undersecretary general and executive director of UNOPS (5/19). Devex: Opinion: We cannot underestimate young people in the COVID-19 response Perry Maddox, CEO of Restless Development…