The Guardian: Rumor and violence rife as Congo Ebola outbreak surges out of control “…Since the [Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)] epidemic began last August, 1,340 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola have been recorded, more than 250 cases since the beginning of April, and 874 people have died…

Associated Press: South Sudan measles outbreak raises questions about vaccines “…As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil war, more than 750 measles cases, including seven deaths, have been reported since January. That’s almost six times the number of cases for all of 2018, according to World Health Organization data.…

Financial Times: Drones to deliver medicines to 12m people in Ghana “The world’s largest drone delivery network, ferrying 150 different medicines and vaccines, as well as blood, to 2,000 clinics in remote parts of Ghana, is set to be announced on Wednesday. The network represents a big expansion for the…

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: From Mangoes to Meningitis: A Tale of One Laboratory Scientist in Burkina Faso Rasmata Ouédraogo-Traoré, chief of the Medical Analysis Laboratory of the Charles De Gaulle Pediatric Hospital, which houses the National Reference Laboratory for meningitis in Burkina Faso, and professor of bacteriology-virology, medical sciences, and…

CIDRAP News: DRC notes 23 new Ebola cases as another hospital attacked “Over the weekend and through [Monday], the ministry of health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recorded 23 new Ebola cases and 19 deaths, while a Katwa hospital saw a violent attack that left one of…

U.N. Dispatch’s “Global Dispatches Podcast”: Mozambique After Cyclone Idai, One Month On Mark Leon Goldberg, editor of U.N. Dispatch and host of the Global Dispatches Podcast, speaks with Dorothy Sang, humanitarian advocacy manager at Oxfam, about “the scale of the damage wrought by Cyclone Idai and how international relief agencies…

Associated Press: U.N.: Malawi is 1st nation to use malaria vaccine to help kids “The World Health Organization says Malawi has become the first country to begin immunizing children against malaria, using the only licensed vaccine to protect against the mosquito-spread disease. Although the vaccine only protects about one-third of…

Quartz Africa: African health care systems are in an arms race with a rising fake medicine problem “…[A recent] string of incidents of counterfeit medicines circulating in African countries [show] where an unfortunate confluence of struggling economies, weak regulation, and a preponderance of poorly educated consumers makes some of these…

New York Times: Mozambique Cyclone Wiped Out the Nation’s Food. Now Aid is in Short Supply. “…The tropical cyclone known as Idai, which barreled through southern Africa last month, ravaged one of the poorest corners of the planet. In Mozambique, which bore its brunt, it leveled 110,000 homes, inundated entire…

NPR: A Promising Anti-HIV Drug Poses A Dilemma “…[A new study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine] estimated what could happen if millions of poor HIV-positive African women of child-bearing age were given the new, more effective drug [that in a separate study was associated with an…