Al Jazeera: Ebola death toll in DR Congo passes 500: Health ministry “More than 500 people have died from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but a vaccination program has prevented thousands more deaths, the country’s health minister said…” (2/9). CBC Radio: ‘Whack-a-mole’ Ebola outbreak…

Agence France-Presse: Suicide rate falls by a third globally, data shows “Suicides have fallen globally by more than a third since 1990, according to a far-reaching analysis released Thursday that highlighted profound differences in the number of men and women taking their own lives…” (2/7). CNN: Global rates of suicide…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Significant Progress Achieved Against TB in High-Burden Asian Countries “Preliminary results from a joint initiative to find and treat [an] additional 1.5 million ‘missing’ tuberculosis patients by the end of 2019 show solid progress, with Asia driving the success. Six countries in…

Agence France-Presse: Deadly drug-resistant TB a ‘blinking red’ global threat “Deadly, drug-resistant tuberculosis — as lethal as Ebola and tough to treat in even the best hospitals — is a ‘blinking red’ worldwide threat, the head of a global health fund warned in an interview with AFP. … ‘We should…

Daily Beast: State of The Union: Trump’s Bold AIDS Plan May Be Undermined By His Anti-LGBT Agenda (Allen, 2/5). Fox Business: Inside Trump’s plan to end the HIV epidemic and what sparked it (Scipioni, 2/6). The Hill: Trump’s AIDS turnaround greeted with skepticism by some advocates (Hellmann, 2/7). International Business…

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Coke and CDC, Atlanta icons, share cozy relationship, emails show (Judd, 2/6). CIDRAP News: More Ebola reported from Katwa hot spot (Soucheray, 2/6). Devex: Q&A: Lessons from Australian aid’s disability inclusion program (Cornish, 2/7). IRIN: In rural Pakistan, ‘worst drought in years’ drives displacement and hunger (Shaikh/Tunio, 2/6).…

The Atlantic: Stopping HIV Would Require an Entirely Different Trump “The grand gesture of commitment to an implausible health goal is a State of the Union tradition. … On Tuesday night, Donald Trump championed ending AIDS in the United States. ‘My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the…

Agence France-Presse: On World Cancer Day, professor hails ‘tremendous progress’ made so far (2/4). Al Jazeera: U.N. warns of health risks for Iraqi children in deadly winter (Matheson, 2/5). Associated Press: Brazil institute: Potential health crisis from dam breach (Jeantet, 2/5). Bloomberg: Ebola Fears Take Monkey Meat Off the Menu…

Associated Press: Experts call for emergency declaration on Congo’s Ebola “An international group of public health experts on Monday called on the World Health Organization to convene an emergency committee to consider declaring Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency. The group of experts wrote in The Lancet that…

National Institutes of Health: NIH-Supported Scientists Develop Tool to Measure Success of HIV Cure Strategies “Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new assay to accurately and easily count the cells that comprise the HIV reservoir, the stubborn obstacle to an HIV cure. This advance will…