The BMJ: Health gains make actions to curb climate change cost neutral, says WHO (Limb, 12/6). CIDRAP News: Guidance seeks to increase outbreak vaccines in pregnant women (Schnirring, 12/6). Devex: Outlook remains bleak for South Sudan food crisis (Root, 12/7). Devex: WHO launches ‘Twitter-like’ platform for NCDs (Ravelo, 12/7). The…

Associated Press: Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern “The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city in eastern Congo, as health experts worry whether the stock of an experimental vaccine will stand up to the demands of an epidemic with no end…

Nature: The silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB “…The hepatitis B virus (HBV), which spreads through blood and bodily fluids and invades liver cells, is thought to kill just under one million people every year around the world, mostly from cancer or scarring (cirrhosis) of the…

Homeland Preparedness News: Researchers create six antibodies with potential to test, treat Zika (Galford, 12/3). MedPage Today: World AIDS Day: Positive Steps, but No End in Sight (Walker, 12/1). NPR: Measles Cases Rise Globally With Spikes In The Middle East, Europe And The Americas (Beaubien, 12/3). Reuters: Millions flock to…

The Guardian: U.K. meets U.N. target in drive to end HIV epidemic “The U.K. has hit a significant U.N. target on the way to ending the HIV epidemic by succeeding in diagnosing and effectively treating more than 90 percent of people with the virus. Public Health England said there were…

CNN: Measles cases surged globally in 2017 due to gaps in vaccine coverage, health agencies say “Measles cases around the world surged 31 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report jointly published by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…” (Thomas,…

Associated Press: Congo’s Ebola outbreak now 2nd largest in history, WHO says “Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the devastating West Africa outbreak that killed thousands a few years ago, the World Health Organization said Thursday. WHO’s emergencies chief, Dr. Peter Salama, called it…

CNN: HIV diagnoses at all-time high in Eastern Europe, report says “The HIV epidemic in Europe is still growing at an alarming rate, particularly in Eastern Europe, according to a new report. The number of new HIV diagnoses in the region continued to rise in 2017, but the pace of…

Al Jazeera: Healing trauma in South Sudan through mental health programs (Lee/Mickute, 11/26). Bloomberg: Glaxo Considers Developing Gonorrhea Vaccine as Threat Rises (Paton, 11/26). SciDev.Net: Q&A: ‘There is a silent rejection of large health interventions (Makri, 11/26). VOA News: 175 People Dead of Cholera in Northern Nigeria, Up to 10,000…

U.N. News: To win combat against HIV worldwide, ‘knowledge is power,’ says UNAIDS report “Ahead of World AIDS Day, marked every year on 1 December, the United Nations issued a report on Thursday that highlights the critical importance of scaling up HIV testing worldwide. Titled ‘Knowledge is Power,’ it presents…