The Conversation: Worsening Ebola crisis leaves U.N. Security Council with few options Mark Eccleston-Turner, lecturer at Keele University’s Law School “…The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) … acknowledged the situation in the DRC by issuing a resolution (resolution 2439) that calls for an end to the violence so that humanitarian…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: A New Africa Strategy This blog post highlights remarks delivered by Ambassador John Bolton, U.S. national security adviser, on the Trump administration’s new Africa strategy. Bolton “emphasized that President Trump’s Africa strategy is the result of an intensive interagency process, and reflects the core tenets…

Associated Press: ‘Young miracle’: Baby recovers from Ebola in Congo outbreak “They call her the ‘young miracle.’ A baby who was admitted to an Ebola treatment center just six days after birth is now recovered from the virus. Congo’s health ministry calls the baby the youngest survivor in what is…

Devex: Opinion: To end malaria, we cannot ignore the reality of poor-quality medicines Ronald T. Piervincenzi, chief executive officer of USP, and Delese Mimi Darko, pharmacist and chief executive officer of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority “…WHO estimates that one in 10 medicines in low- and middle-income countries are substandard…

Associated Press/POLITICO: U.N. chief calls for compromise, sacrifice at climate talks (12/13). Devex: How hard to reach are the ‘hard to reach’? (Abrahams, 12/13). Devex: Supporting disability advocacy: Insights from Savina Nongebatu (Cornish, 12/12). Devex: Older generation at risk of being left behind in push for UHC (Root, 12/12). Global…

CIDRAP News: Ebola outbreak grows as DRC issues alerts in Goma “The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) health ministry [on Wednesday] in its daily Ebola update reported five new cases and nine new deaths and added that 100 suspected cases are under investigation. Outbreak totals now stand at 505…

CIDRAP News: Ebola count in DRC hits 500 in growing outbreak “The world’s second-largest Ebola outbreak hit another milestone [Tuesday], as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recorded two new cases, raising outbreak totals to 500, including 289 deaths…” (Soucheray, 12/11). San Francisco Chronicle: South Sudan to begin Ebola…

BBC: Yemen war: Billions in aid, but where’s it going? (Goodman, 12/12). The Guardian: ‘Yemenis are left so poor they kill themselves before the hunger does’ (12/11). Global Health NOW: Demystifying a ‘Curse’ (McNeish, 12/11). The Guardian: ‘What happened to me will not happen to my daughters’: sexual violence in…

Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: Is there a doctor in the house? The challenge of primary health care in Libya Ernest Massiah, practice manager in the Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice at the World Bank’s Middle East North Africa Region; Moustafa Abdalla, senior health specialist at the World Bank; and…

PATH: Making the Case: How Regulatory Harmonization Can Save Lives in Africa “This report uses modeling to explore the potential impact — measured in lives saved — of regulatory harmonization on accelerating access to health products across countries in Africa…” (December 2018).