Center for Global Development: Managing “Deep” Uncertainty in Global Health: The Case of TB Testing Rachel Cassidy, CGD non-resident fellow, and Charles Manski, board of trustees professor at Northwestern University, address the implications of statistical uncertainty for decision making in global health, examining the case of TB testing and treatment…

Associated Press: Malawi fights tsetse flies, disease after wildlife relocated (Jali, 10/30). Associated Press: U.N.: More than 7 million malaria cases in Burundi outbreak (10/30). Borgen Magazine: Keheala: Tackling TB in Kenya Through Tech (Ross, 10/29). Devex: A ‘super framework’ for climate migration isn’t on the way (Lieberman, 10/29). Los…

CIDRAP News: Ebola cases continue slow rise in DRC outbreak “The slow rise in new Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued over the weekend and through [Monday], with four new cases — and with outbreak responders tracking the movements of a patient who fled into…

CIDRAP News: More Ebola cases in DRC, including Butembo “[Friday] the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) Ebola technical committee (CMRE) confirmed that the virus had returned to Butembo, just 10 days after the former hot spot was cleared of the disease. … Earlier this month, DRC officials tweeted that…

U.N. News: World is closer than ever to seeing polio disappear for good “In a ‘historic achievement for humanity,’ two of three wild poliovirus strains have been eliminated worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday, following the conclusion by a group of experts that WPV3, type three of…

CIDRAP News: Officials track movement of Ebola patients from DRC hot spot “Health officials confirmed six more Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, and in a weekly snapshot of the outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said though the weekly number of cases is still…

New York Times: Scientists Were Hunting for the Next Ebola. Now the U.S. Has Cut Off Their Funding. “In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans. … Ending the program,…

The Lancet: End the tuberculosis emergency: a promise is not enough Editorial Board “…The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis recommended actions for meeting global [tuberculosis (TB)] targets. Latent tuberculosis must be diagnosed and treated, Gene Xpert technology deployed worldwide to determine drug susceptibility, point-of-care diagnostics scaled up to minimize treatment delay,…

CIDRAP News: WHO advisors extend Ebola emergency; European regulators conditionally approve vaccine “In a pair of major Ebola developments [on October 18], an emergency committee for the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended extending the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) for the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of…

Devex: New tools, old problems: TB funding gap persists “Several new technologies are in the pipeline to diagnose and treat tuberculosis, including a promising vaccine that could prevent people with latent TB infection from developing the disease, according to the World Health Organization’s latest report. … Funding for TB research…