Scientific American: Social and Environmental Change Drives a World of Newly Emerged Infections ” ‘In an unchanging world, you don’t see a lot of emerging disease,’ epidemiologist William Karesh told Scientific American contributor Lois Parshley during her reporting for this special section, The Future of Medicine 2018. The world, of…

Reuters: Malawi can eradicate HIV infections says U.S. doctor who discovered AIDS virus “Malawi … is on course to eradicate the virus, Jay Levy who co-discovered the AIDS virus 35 years ago said. … [In a lecture at College of Medicine in Blantyre,] Levy cited the Malawian government’s efforts in…

Devex: Opinion: Detecting disease from the skies Tim Ford, professor and chair of the department of environmental health sciences and director of the Institute for Global Health at UMass Amherst “…[O]ver the last 10 years, prediction using satellite imagery has increased to include a wide variety of diseases from cholera…

Agence France-Presse/Medical Xpress: Novartis to inject $100 mn into malaria drug research (4/17). Associated Press: Nobel laureate blasts East Timor’s failure against poverty (Raimundos, 4/17). BBC News: ‘Malaria killed my daughter, I’m protecting others now’ (Smith, 4/17). CNN: Malaria parasites present in 23% of donor blood in some African countries,…

Associated Press: Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists hamper polio eradication (Umar/Larson, 4/16). Associated Press: Brazil yellow fever vaccination campaign far short of goal (DiLorenzo, 4/13). The Economist: Senegal’s innovative approach to prostitution (4/12). The Guardian: ‘The earlier you go, the longer you live’: HIV self-testing in South Africa (Ratcliffe, 4/16). New…

CIDRAP News: Polio trends promising, but surveillance gaps linger “In 2017, the number of global wild poliovirus (WPV) cases sank to its lowest level, and though surveillance markers are improving in many countries, remaining gaps mean that progress is fragile, according to a new snapshot that looked at trends for…

California Healthline: Applying Silicon Valley Smarts To Age-Old Diseases “…The gadgets [used to detect infection with Loa loa worms], called LoaScopes, are part of a broader effort to harness technology and innovation in the U.S., including California’s Silicon Valley, to fight age-old diseases in the developing world. Over the years,…

Devex: RCT evaluation points to value of targeting new fathers for gender equality (Edwards, 4/6). Global Atlanta: The Carter Center Central to Liberia’s Mental Health Initiatives (Bolton, 4/5). The Lancet: Progress in influenza surveillance in Africa (Green, 4/7). The Lancet: Violence rife in Mexico, affecting medical community (Agren, 4/7). Thomson…

Premium Times: Interview: Why U.S. is funding world’s largest HIV survey in Nigeria — NACA Boss “Sani Aliyu is the director general, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). In this exclusive interview with Premium Times’ Ayodamola Owoseye and Nike Adebowale, he speaks on why the largest survey of…

Boston Globe: BU study raises prospect of earlier diagnosis of deadly Ebola virus (Finucane, 3/28). Devex: Ending FGM/C requires individualized approaches, says Population Council (Lieberman, 3/29). Devex: Long Story Short #7: Inside the Commission on the Status of Women (Lieberman, 3/28). EURACTIV: Africa takes steps to make medicine more affordable…