AP: Sanofi, GSK to provide COVID-19 vaccine to global alliance “Drugmakers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline have agreed to provide 200 million doses of their potential COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX Facility, a collaboration designed to give countries around the world equal access to coronavirus vaccines…” (10/28). Bloomberg: Sanofi, Glaxo to Supply…

AP: Poles join nationwide strike in revolt over abortion ruling “People across Poland are vowing to stay off their jobs on Wednesday as part of a nationwide strike to protest a top court ruling that bans abortions in cases of congenitally damaged fetuses. The nationwide strike comes amid a deepening…

CNBC: ‘Learn to live with the pandemic’: Physicians warn that a vaccine may not prevent Covid from becoming endemic (Meredith, 10/22). The Hill: Azar says COVID-19 vaccine could be delivered to vulnerable people by January (Axelrod, 10/22). NPR: How Will The Limited Supply Of Antibody Drugs For COVID-19 Be Allocated?…

The Guardian: How Trump success in ending Obamacare would kill Fauci plan to conquer HIV “In his State of the Union address in February 2019, Donald Trump vowed to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. But if Trump has his way and the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care…

BMJ Opinion: Covid-19 and the ethics of risk Jonathan Wolff, Alfred Landecker professor of values and public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and governing body fellow at Wolfson College in Oxford, and colleagues (10/22). Global Citizen: The Amazon’s Indigenous Communities Need Urgent Relief…

USAID: Innovation and Impact Newsletter – October 2020 The latest issue of USAID’s Innovation and Impact Newsletter features the launch of Data and Advanced Analytics in HIV Service Delivery: Use Cases to Help Reach 95-95-95, which “details high-priority, advanced analytics use cases that could improve HIV service delivery globally.” The…

PATH: COVID-19 essential health services policy tracker: interim findings report (October 2020). World Economic Forum: Overcoming the COVID-19 disruption to essential health services Anatole Manzi, deputy chief medical officer at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda (10/22).

AP: Chinese drugmaker setting up vaccine production lines “A state-owned Chinese drugmaker is setting up production lines to supply 1 billion doses of two possible coronavirus vaccines that are being tested on 50,000 people in 10 countries, the company chairman said Tuesday. Testing by SinoPharm Group is ‘in the last…

Devex: What do people in BRICS countries think about a COVID-19 vaccine? “Vaccine hesitancy will prove a steep challenge for global efforts to find a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine and ensure its equitable distribution, new evidence suggests. About 28% of 13,400 individuals from 19 countries would hesitate to get,…

Financial Times: FT Health: Communicable Diseases In this special report, the Financial Times “looks at how scientists and policymakers are rising to the challenge of a pandemic — from new drugs and diagnostics, to efforts to secure poor countries’ access to treatments. Plus: the WHO chief’s view of the crisis…”…