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…

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: The public health crisis of underimmunization: a global plan of action Lawrence O. Gostin of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center and colleagues “…Reasons for falling vaccination rates globally include low public trust in vaccines, constraints on affordability…

CIDRAP News: European regulators consider 2nd Ebola vaccine “Bavarian Nordic [Thursday] announced that it and its partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals, part of Johnson & Johnson, have submitted an application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of their investigational two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen. The news comes as one new Ebola…

The Guardian: Pakistan accused of cover-up over fresh polio outbreak “Officials in Pakistan have been accused of covering up an outbreak of the most dangerous strain of polio and planning a covert vaccination program to contain the disease. According to a source in Pakistan’s polio eradication program and documentation seen…

Nature: A new twenty-first century science for effective epidemic response In this review article, Juliet Bedford of Anthrologica, Jeremy Farrar of Wellcome, and colleagues “argue that our concept of epidemics must evolve from crisis response during discrete outbreaks to an integrated cycle of preparation, response, and recovery. This is an…

CIDRAP News: DRC Ebola cases hit 3,285 as transmission rate slows “From Oct. 28 to Nov. 3, only 10 new Ebola cases from five health zones were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that security issues and poor access continue…

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…

Xinhua: Philippines confirms 4th polio case since outbreak in September “The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed a fourth polio case in the country, saying that another child has tested positive for the disease in the southern Philippines. Health Secretary Francisco Duque said in a statement late Tuesday that…

AFP: 300 attacks on Ebola health workers in DR Congo this year: report “Health workers battling an Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo have been attacked 300 times, leaving six dead and 70 wounded since the start of the year in three provinces, authorities said on Monday. … The latest…

Foreign Policy: On the Front Lines of the Trump Administration’s Ebola Response Alex M. Azar, U.S. secretary of health and human services; Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; and Anthony S. Fauci,…