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…

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…

IPS: Four Ways the African Development Bank Can Support a More Secure Africa Ifeanyi Nsofor, medical doctor, CEO of EpiAFRIC, and director of policy and advocacy for Nigeria Health Watch “…[T]he recent increment in the capital base of the African Development Bank by $125 billion to $208 billion, should be…

Al Jazeera: More Ebola patients being treated in DR Congo “Violence and mistrust are contributing to the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But health workers say despite the challenges, fewer people are getting sick and many are now being treated…” (11/11). Health Policy Watch: Violence Against…

CIDRAP News: More violence in Beni as DRC tracks new Ebola cases “Over the weekend at least 43 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in Beni, one of the epicenters of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s current Ebola outbreak, as officials tallied eight new cases of the deadly…

U.N. News: World Health Organization reports 60 percent drop in cholera in 2018 “International action to drive down cholera led to a 60 percent decrease in cases in 2018, compared with the previous year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. This points to what the U.N. agency described…

Homeland Preparedness News: WHO confirms 29 new cases of Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo “In its last weekly report of the year, covering Dec. 18 to Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 29 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease were logged in the…

AP: China: Possible that new virus could spread between humans “The possibility that a new virus in central China could spread between humans cannot be ruled out, though the risk of transmission at the moment appears to be low, Chinese officials said Wednesday. Forty-one people in the city of Wuhan…

Foreign Policy: China Deserves Some Credit for Its Handling of the Wuhan Pneumonia Daniel Lucey of Georgetown University Medical Center and Annie Sparrow, assistant professor of population health science and policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “…Within weeks of detection of the initial outbreak in December in…

PAHO/WHO: Countries of the Americas commit to a collective approach to eliminating more than 30 diseases “Ministers of health participating in the 57th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) [Tuesday] agreed on a collective approach to eliminate more than 30 communicable diseases and related conditions in Latin…